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In his book Conquest. A New History of the Modern World, David Day has a chapter on “Supplanting the Savages.”
In 1804, in order to pre-empt French occupation of Tasmania, Lieutenant-Colonel David Collins was sent, with accompanying soldiers and convicts, to occupy the island. However, for thousands of years the island had already been settled by Aboriginal […]

Yesterday, I had lunch with a Cook Islands friend I am mentoring. We discussed together Chapter 12 of the Westminster Confession; “Of Adoption”:
All those that are justified, God vouchsafes, in and for His only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption, by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy […]

In Chapter 2 (Skilfulness) of the Lotus Sutra, it is made plain that those who think they do not need the teaching of the Lotus Sutra (as communicated by Shakyamuni) are considered to be proud, to be chaff or trash. They have no appreciation as to how subtle and inscrutable is the knowledge that leads […]

The Lotus Sutra is one of the most venerated of Mahayana Buddhist texts. Here is a segment from Chapter 2, “Skilfulness”:  
The Lord then rose with recollection and consciousness from his meditation, and forthwith addressed the venerable Sariputra:

“The Buddha knowledge, Sariputra, is profound, difficult to understand, difficult to comprehend. It is difficult for all disciples […]

Here is a great quote from Luther:
For Holy Scripture is the garment which our Lord Jesus Christ has put on and in which He lets Himself be seen and found. This garment is woven throughout and so wrought together into one that it cannot be cut or parted. But the soldiers take it from Christ […]

This blog continues the series of studies looking at references to the Garden(s) of Paradise, as depicted in the Qur’an. Our last blog on this matter was on February 21.
The next relevant passage is from Surah 20, namely 74-76 (Yusuf Ali):
74: Verily he who comes to his Lord as a sinner (at Judgment),- for him […]

This blog continues the series of studies looking at references to the Garden(s) of Paradise, as depicted in the Qur’an. Our last blog on this matter was on February 5.
The next relevant passage is from Surah 19, namely 58-63 (Yusuf Ali):
58: Those were some of the prophets on whom Allah did bestow His Grace,- of […]

This blog continues the series of studies looking at references to the Garden(s) of Paradise, as depicted in the Qur’an. Our last blog on this matter was on December 22. The next relevant passages are from Surah 18, namely 29-31, 105-108 (Yusuf Ali):
29-31:
Say, “The truth is from your Lord”: Let him who will believe, and […]

It was way back on June 8 last year that we last revisited Plantinga’s repudiation of the common view that the reality of evil is at odds with the Christian affirmation of God as good, omnipotent and omniscient. Plantinga ends up with two propositions:
4. God is omniscient, omnipotent and wholly good.
5. God creates a world […]

There are those who think evangelism is a task to be carried out by those who have been specially gifted for this purpose. To their minds most Christians are simply called upon to live the life and only to be ready to share their faith when called upon to do so (1 Peter 3:15). However, […]