The Confessors - Apologetics

Is Darwinism humanism masquerading as Science?

nospam@example.com (Michael Fowler) — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:21:20 -0700

This is George again. I wanted to see if I could get you
to comment on my observation that evolutionary belief is in actual fact
humanism masquerading as science. I wanted to get your thought on that.

Dear George,

Yes!

Darwin admited in his diaries from the voyage on
the Beagle. Then he was a believer in God until the ship reached the
southern latitudes of the world, by that time the mocking of the
officers had driven him into despair.

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What is Truth?

nospam@example.com (Michael Fowler) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:23:57 -0700

Welcome to TheConfessors.com where Christians can come together to deal with such questions as, "does truth exist?"

When we say we believe Christ is God, because: "He rose from the dead" or "He commanded the elements" we are making an apologetic statement. Apologetics is to give reason for the faith within you. We all make apologetics statements every day, about many things. Apologetics does not mean to be sorry for believing in Christ, quite the contrary. It mean to explain or defend your belief. The term comes from the Greek word apologia (απολογία), meaning defense of a position against an attack.

In our days the attack on Christianity is relentless, whether at school, at work, at play, or in the media. People are often confronted with very cleverly devised schemes, from anti-Christians. Of course since Christ is truth, then none of their attacks can truly defeat Him. The aim is to arm Christians in their hearts and mind against these attacks, to enable them to be able to present Christ in a loving way in a world that openly rejects him.

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Relativism is true, because of diversity

nospam@example.com (Michael Fowler) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:09:47 -0700

Often relativists will say that because of so many differant views about truth, that the only real truth is relativism. In their minds this sloves the hard work of picking the real truth, and living up to it. However, they still embrace many things as objective truths, such as murder, rape, stealing from poor people, womens rights, abortion, aninmal rights, etc. If you attack any one of those then will become upset. Thus they are only relativists with Christian truths, and not with their own truths. One of the supports they claim is "many truths"

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Answering Relativists

nospam@example.com (Michael Fowler) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:50:37 -0700

Your truth and My truth, you belive your way and I will belive mine.

Some answers to this claim.

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A letter: can one practice Scientology and Christianity?

nospam@example.com (Michael Fowler) — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:37:16 -0700

I recently received an e-mail from a good friend of mine who is concerned for a good friend of his. He asked me to respond to his friends claim that he could practice Scientology and still be a Christian. Both of them were Orthodox Christians to be specific. The basis of Scientology is atheism and materialism, however people believe they can use some of the teachings of Scientology to make them better Christians. This is the problem that will be talked about in the following letter.

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Prayers against witchcraft: Lorica of Saint Patrick

nospam@example.com (Michael Fowler) — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:26:41 -0700

These Prayers written by St. Patrick are very powerful against witchcraft, if you are being bothered by such things please say these prayers daily. They really do help, they helped me.

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Creationism Links

nospam@example.com (Michael Fowler) — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:17:05 -0700

A great list of internet links that will help with understanding Creationism.
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No Ice on the Moon

nospam@example.com (Michael Fowler) — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:06:55 -0700

eldavojohn writes
"In 1994, there was speculation that there might be a southern ice cap on the moon — something our exploration of it could take advantage of. Unfortunately, recent evidence has come to light revealing that this probably isn't true."
From the article:
"If there is any ice at the South Pole, it probably comes from tiny, scattered grains that probably account for only one or two percent of the local dust, the authors suggest.

more: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/19/0149207

The Greatest Pagan Converts to Christ

nospam@example.com (Michael Fowler) — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:42:21 -0700

Hieromartyr Cyprian, Virgin Martyr Justina and Martyr Theoctistus suffered for Christ at Nicomedia in the year 304. St. Cyprian was a pagan and a native of Antioch. From his early childhood his misguided parents dedicated him to the service of the pagan gods. From age seven until thirty, Cyprian studied at the most outstanding centers of paganism: on Mount Olympus, in the cities of Argos and Tauropolis, in the Egyptian city of Memphis, and at Babylon.
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Works of Man, Works of God, and Faith.

nospam@example.com (Michael Fowler) — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:16:31 -0700

How are these things related? This is a paper on the Orthodox position, in comparion to the Calvinist and Roman Catholic teachings.

Orthodoxy does not hold to either the Calvinist or Roman Catholic understanding. The teachings of each will be listed first. This way the reader may understand if the writer has correctly understood the postions of each correctly.

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Divide and conquer:

nospam@example.com (Michael Fowler) — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 02:46:27 -0700

How an educator can control the human mind by dividing it:

By teaching two systems of thought which are contrary to each other, the human mind is forced, into a corner. Either it must reject one of the systems of thought in order to except the other, or it loses its ability to think correctly then must rely on others for interpretation of life.

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Evolution, flight of the phoenix.

nospam@example.com (Michael Fowler) — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 02:42:05 -0700

The phoenix is a mythological bird the rose out of the ashes by its own accord, of course no one has ever seen this bird. Neither has anyone seen chemical evolution.

The idea that matter can organize itself into life, is not demonstrable. No where has anyone ever seen matter organize itself into life.

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Three kinds of science

nospam@example.com (Michael Fowler) — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:45:24 -0700

The word science is a very interesting one and often misused. In modern rhetoric the word science has at least three distinct meanings, however those three distinct meanings are often all rolled into one universal meaning by flawed reasoning’s.

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The Tragedy of Such Sorcery

nospam@example.com (Alexander the seminarian) — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:36:13 -0700

Concerning Culture again dedicated to the educated hipsters of the X an Y generation fhfhffhfhf

Forgive this Slap, O Brethren....

The Tragedy of Such Sorcery

More Newspeak: laws from the prince of this world.

Security is insecurity

Absence of danger is danger

Comfort is discomfort

God is Dead

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