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California lawmakers suggest religious are to blame for LGBT suicides

August 1, 2019 Randolph Jason

California lawmakers suggest religious are to blame for LGBT suicides by Calvin Freiburger for Faith Wire SACRAMENTO, California, July 31, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – If left-wing lawmakers have their way, it will soon be the official position of the state of California that Americans who hold to biblical understandings of sex and gender will be considered responsible for homosexual and transgender suicides. ACR-99 is a resolution declaring that “being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender” are “part of natural variations that occur in sexual orientation and gender identity” and condemning counseling services that…

CREATION OF HUMAN AND ANIMAL EMBRYO HYBRIDS SET TO BEGIN IN JAPAN AFTER GOVERNMENT GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO CONTROVERSIAL STEM CELL EXPERIMENTS

August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 Randolph Jason

CREATION OF HUMAN AND ANIMAL EMBRYO HYBRIDS SET TO BEGIN IN JAPAN AFTER GOVERNMENT GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO CONTROVERSIAL STEM CELL EXPERIMENTS by Geoffrey Grider for Now The End Begins In Japan itself, scientists were forbidden from going beyond a 14-day growth period. But those laws were relaxed in March when the country’s education and science ministry issued new guidelines saying such creations could now be brought to term. Now, Dr Nakauchi’s application to experiment is the first to be approved under that new framework. “We don’t expect to create human…

Has Kanye Lost His Jesus Complex and Found Christ?

July 31, 2019 Randolph Jason

Has Kanye Lost His Jesus Complex and Found Christ? by KATE SHELLNUTT for Christianity Today The rapper attributes his turnaround and creative inspiration to godly obedience. It’s been 15 years since Christianity Today reviewed Kanye West’s debut album, The College Dropout—quoting verses from “Jesus Walks” and other God-tinged tracks, while warning that the release overall is “far from pious, with an array of expletives and lyrical undesirables.” “One wonders why West so adamantly makes a case for Christ in ‘Jesus Walks,’ yet quickly dismisses him via duplicitous party rhymes,” wrote Andree Farias.…

‘Choosing Between God and The Gang’: El Salvador Ministry Run By Ex-Hitman Freeing Men From Lives of Violence

July 31, 2019 Randolph Jason

‘Choosing Between God and The Gang’: El Salvador Ministry Run By Ex-Hitman Freeing Men From Lives of Violence By Will Maule for Faith Wire On the streets of La Dina, El Salvador, extortion, robbery and murder are a way of life. The area has been decimated by gang culture, with MS-13 and Bario 18 tearing the streets apart. Simply put, if you are a young man growing up in La Dina, your life expectancy is going to be devastatingly low. As such, the rate of incarceration is stratospheric. But while it…

HOW IS THE HOLY SPIRIT DIFFERENT FROM THE FATHER AND THE SON?

July 31, 2019 Randolph Jason

HOW IS THE HOLY SPIRIT DIFFERENT FROM THE FATHER AND THE SON? by Andrew Menkis for Core Christianity Each person of the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, is fully and truly divine. God is one essence, not a jumble of parts or pieces put together. The persons of the Trinity are not the building blocks that combine to form God, they are each God. Yet God has revealed to us the great mystery of the Trinity: there is a plurality within God’s oneness. Within the godhead…

Was Pascal right about God and belief?

July 31, 2019July 30, 2019 Randolph Jason

Was Pascal right about God and belief? by Mark Vernon for Christian Today Pascal’s Wager has become a notorious reason to believe in God. The French mathematician and philosopher proposed that it’s rational to believe in God because if you’re wrong it won’t make any difference, but if you’re right it might make every difference as to where you spend eternity. It’s as if he was suggesting it’s better to hedge your bets and believe, only that seems duplicitous and inauthentic. However, there is more to the wager than just…

Bible Answer Man Hank Hanegraaff: ‘The Lord Supernaturally Saved Me From Dying’

July 30, 2019 Randolph Jason

Bible Answer Man Hank Hanegraaff: ‘The Lord Supernaturally Saved Me From Dying’ by Steve Warren for CBN News Hank Hanegraaff, the “Bible Answer Man,” has announced on social media how “the Lord supernaturally saved me from dying.” In an 11-minute video posted to YouTube on July 17, Hanegraaff, 69, the host of the nationally syndicated Bible Answer Man radio show, recounts his 40-day hospital stay where he was undergoing treatment for mantle cell lymphoma, a rare form of cancer, by using allogeneic stem cell transplantation. “Again, I don’t want to be presumptive;…

True Doctrine Doesn’t Wait

July 30, 2019 Randolph Jason

True Doctrine Doesn’t Wait by MARK GALLI for Christianity Today Without good theology, you can’t have Christlike love and compassion. In a recent email to me, a writer encouraged CT to pursue a new trajectory. He argued we should move away from orthodoxy, even if “beautiful,” and instead in a direction where orthopathy (meaning right feelings or emotions) and orthopraxis (right practice) are seen as “first-order issues responsive to the two great commandments and the mission of Jesus, and witnessed through love and unity.” This is a near-perfect summary of…

JOSHUA HARRIS, LAODICEAN CHRISTIAN AUTHOR AND FORMER PASTOR WHO WROTE ‘I KISSED DATING GOODBYE’ HAS RENOUNCED HIS FAITH, DIVORCED HIS WIFE AND APOLOGIZED TO LGBTQ+ MOVEMENT

July 30, 2019 Randolph Jason

JOSHUA HARRIS, LAODICEAN CHRISTIAN AUTHOR AND FORMER PASTOR WHO WROTE ‘I KISSED DATING GOODBYE’ HAS RENOUNCED HIS FAITH, DIVORCED HIS WIFE AND APOLOGIZED TO LGBTQ+ MOVEMENT by Geoffrey Grider for Now The End Begins Joshua Harris, the author of the best-seller “I Kissed Dating Goodbye,” a book he authored in 1997 that he later renounced after shaping purity culture for many millennial believers, revealed that he is stepping back from his faith. In an Instagram post, he also apologized for his previously held views, including “bigotry” to the LGBTQ community. “The…

If This Is How the Bible Works, the Bible Doesn’t Work at All

July 30, 2019July 29, 2019 Randolph Jason

If This Is How the Bible Works, the Bible Doesn’t Work at All by Robert W. Yarbrough for The Gospel Coalition Here is the subtitle to Peter Enns’s new book: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That’s Great News. That rambling, whimsical description fits with the hokey front dust jacket, which sports three little hands pointing to a “Holy Bible.” The back cover promises “A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding the Mission of the Bible.” In How the Bible…