January 2000

What Would a Politically Correct Jesus Look Like?

Now, Religion in the News, a report and comment on religious trends and events being covered by the media. This week’s item is from the Religious News Service: “A painting of a dark-skinned Jesus has been chosen as the winner of the National Catholic Reporter’s contest to update the image...Read more

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UFOs and Apparitions

Tom: Thanks, Gary. And welcome to our ongoing discussion of Dave Hunt’s book Occult Invasion — The Subtle Seduction of the World and Church— which, based upon the information it contains, the occult seduction is less and less subtle—at least that’s the way it seems. If you’re a new listener...Read more

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Question: I noticed a rather derogatory reference to you in a recent issue of...a Catholic apologetic magazine edited by Karl Keating [that stated] that you don’t really write your books but use a ghostwriter. Could you respond?

January 1, 2000

Question: I noticed a rather derogatory reference to you in a recent issue of This Rock , a Catholic apologetic magazine edited by Karl Keating. I know you have debated Karl in the past and wonder whether he was accurate in saying that you don’t really write your books but...Read more

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Question: I enjoyed your little book, The Nonnegotiable Gospel—so I bought several of them to hand out....But when I went through your little book again...I couldn't find the word “repentance” mentioned anywhere!...Couldn’t you...make one small change...?

January 1, 2000

Question: I enjoyed your little book, The Nonnegotiable Gospel —so I bought several of them to hand out....But when I went through your little book again, guess what? I could not find the word “repentance” mentioned anywhere! Also at one place you said there is nothing for us to do...Read more

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Question: Where do you get the courage to expose what you believe are false teachings of some of the best-known and most popular Christian leaders? Have you gone to each of them privately first, as the Scripture says we should...?

January 1, 2000

Question: Where do you get the courage to expose what you believe are false teachings of some of the best-known and most popular Christian leaders? Have you gone to each of them privately first, as the Scripture says we should? Can’t correction be accomplished simply by referring to the false...Read more

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Question: I must press you to tell me, how the blood of Jesus is not “God blood.” If He is fully God and fully man, then how could the blood generated by such a union be limited to only one half of it?

January 1, 2000

Question: Enclosed is a printout from Science Digest . You will take notice that “the mother’s blood never mingles with that of the fetus.” With no contact with the mother’s blood, how can the blood of Jesus be just “normal human blood”? How is Jesus’ blood unique from mankind yet...Read more

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Quotable

January 1, 2000

It would be indeed a distressing comment on the misused opportunities of our lives, if at the end, we should hear Him say, sadly, to us as to Philip: “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me?” Lead me in thy truth and...Read more

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"Thy Kingdom Come"

January 1, 2000

This phrase is contained in the so-called "Lord's prayer," which, in fact, is not the Lord's prayer (that is found in John 17) but the disciples' prayer. It would hardly have been appropriate for our Lord to pray, "Forgive us our sins...And lead us not into temptation" (Lk 11:4). Nor...Read more