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PENTECOSTALISM has so pervaded society that religion has become subjective rather than the objective view God intended. Spirituality and religion in general are more about one’s feelings than they are about the truth and how or when the truth should be ascertained. Most people believe it is their ‘pastor’
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Where Values Come From As we continue to review The God Delusion, we note that the atheist author labors diligently to explain why religion is so popular and universal. “Where does the idea of ‘goodness’ originate?” he asks. The reason he goes to such lengths to answer this question is
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Have you noticed how many new and innovative churches there are? Organizations you have never heard of spring up every day. “The Church on the Move” is just one of those; no one calls themselves “The Church Stuck in the Mud.” According to the Internet, more people are drawn to
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Richard Dawkins, in chapter 6 of The God Delusion, takes upon himself the Herculean task of trying to prove that man can be moral without God. Years ago, your congenial editor had a discussion with an atheist who insisted he was probably more moral than I was—he had never
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News broadcaster Paul Harvey once told "The Rest of the Story" of a singing career that almost didn't happen. Harold Jenkins and some friends had tried to get radio stations to play his record, called, "I'll Try." Nothing happened. In a last
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In the fifth chapter of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins attempts to find a naturalistic explanation for the existence of religion. How did it evolve? Why is it still around? He struggles to find an explanation, but does not deal with the true one that is set forth in the
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Within weeks of leaving office, our outgoing president commuted the sentences of 37 convicted murderers on federal death row to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Needless to say, some are outraged at this action, such as the family of Donna Major. Her daughter, Heather said, "I was
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In the last century, Zager and Evans hit the top of the charts with, “In the Year 2525.” Most of us will not likely be around 500 years from now, but we have made it to the first quarter of the twenty-first century. So, congratulations, and here is a
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As pointed out last week, some have attempted to elevate the murderer of the United Healthcare CEO to the status of hero, which is absurd on the face of it. Heroes do not shoot non-combatants down on a public sidewalk. Yes, there are assassins, but their targets are not
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The second tract given to one of our members recently was titled, “A Tribulation Map,” written by Leon Bates. The front panel says that it is “an explanation for those who miss the rapture.” Many have provided fictional accounts of what “the rapture” will be like—people are missing from
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In His scathing denunciation of the Pharisees, Jesus said, “But all of their works they do to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments...” (Matt. 23:5). To publicly display their religion, the Pharisees utilized phylacteries, which were boxes with straps
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The fourth chapter of The God Delusion finally gets to an argument that we do hear Creationists make. Dawkins titled this chapter: Why There Almost Certainly Is No God. As Brother Warren pointed out in his debate with Antony G. N. Flew, it is not sufficient to say that God