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I had lunch with a good friend yesterday, we had some Thai food and chatted about laptop computers and technology and religion. It was almost like a conversation here in Christianity Haven. My friend is an atheist. A PhD in education and quite insightful. Some years ago he gave me an adage I've...

When one stands before God on judgement day will the fig leaf of duty cover your wickedness? Even duty to one's beliefs? Duty to one's God?

Can a man or a woman be good in their public conduct so consistently that their influence on others will be salutary? Have you tried it yourself?

Christians represent about 1/3 of the world's population and that means that 2/3 are not Christians. Many are Muslims, many are Hindus, there are Buddhists, animists, Jews, and thousands of other religions and many Atheists. Are these our brothers or are they something else perhaps enemies?

Can Christian rightly participate in non-violent civil disobedience? Romans 13:1-7 [1] Let every soul be subject to higher authorities. For there is no authority except from God and those who have been ordained by God. [2] And so, whoever resists authority, resists what has been ordained by...

I watched a film from the 1980s called Gandhi. In it there was an incident where a British General (General Dyer) ordered the shooting of more than 1,500 unarmed civilians having a political meeting. The general was a very British chap, righteous, servant of King and country, yet horribly evil...

Does your own religion encourage critical thinking about its official teachings?

Who created man? Genesis chapter one says it was YHWH God. John chapter one says it was the Word of God and that the Word of God was made flesh. Christians identify the Word of God with Jesus Christ. There is a passage that speaks of creation acknowledging that Jesus is Lord. Is this passage...

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This is a video outlining the various religious groups that derived from William Miller's Adventism in the 1830s onward. The main branches are Sunday observing Adventists (this branch includes Jehovah's witnesses) and Sabbath (Saturday) observing groups (this branch includes Seventh Day...

This post is not intended to promote the teachings described. It is intended to give a summarised statement of some of the major beliefs of Jehovah's witnesses with a view to analysing them and offering comment on one or all of them with support from the holy scriptures and commentary on how...

What's your experience with/of Jehovah's witnesses?

Okay, some folk have doubts about the truth of the doctrine of the holy Trinity. What do we do? Browbeat them into submission (probably resentful submission)? Patiently teach them the truth (what we think is the truth anyway)? Discuss their doubts? Have a debate? What? The Catholic Church has...

When I was a lad I read a book written by a chap named Mencius. He was a follower of Confucianism. It was quite amazing. Full of discussion on duty, manners, humble acceptance, right living, and right thinking. Not about gods and demons but about people and how they relate one to another in...

The holy scriptures of Christianity urge Christians to be of the same mind having the same faith. 2Corinthians 13:11-13 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. 12 Greet one another with an holy...

Do you think every word in the book of Ecclesiastes is inspired holy scripture and if you do then what do you make of statements like these? Ecclesiastes 1:2-4Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the...

Sometimes a little history and some clear thinking can dispel misconceptions.

I watched the following video on youtube. It appeared to be seriously under-prepared to me. Undercooked rambling. Let me know what you think.

The use of a hexagram in Judaism is not ancient. An old example from the period of rabbinic Judaism is from around the beginning of the eleventh century where the hexagram is displayed in the Leningrad codex shown here. But for centuries before that the symbol was used in Christian and Islamic...

There's a lot of heresy around nowadays. I guess there always has been but now it seems that there are many who profess faith in Jesus Christ but believe heresies and these people attend meetings in churches and denominations that have (in former times) a reputation for orthodoxy on the major...