25 March
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Genesis 1:1-2:4: a contribution towards reconciling differences From The Presbyterian Banner, March 2004 THE CREATION DAYS I offer five propositions, add some explanatory notes and draw conclusions. 1. The primary meaning of the Hebrew term yom (day) is in reference to a normal day of about 24 hours. Unless the context requires otherwise the primary meaning should be maintained. The Hebrew term yom has the same range of meanings as the English word day. It is natural to immediately think of ordinary days as we read the creation account for the first time, for we have a seven-day week as did Israel. Still, it isRead More →

24 April
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From The Presbyterian Banner, November 2005 The popular weekly British news and information magazine New Scientist has a special report on Fundamentalism in its 8 October 2005 issue. The first article ‘End of the Enlightenment’ argues that reason, pluralism, democracy and freedom of thought are under threat from intolerant belief systems – the fundamentalists of Christian, Muslim and other persuasions. Unable to cope with modernity’s challenge to religious orthodoxy, and fearful of secularism’s cultural dominance, they fight back by asserting the infallibility of the sacred text, the superiority of their belief system to all others, the inadequacy of reason, and the subjugation of human freedomRead More →