March 2003

TBC Notes - Letter Policy

March 1, 2003

Letter Policy What is our policy regarding the letters we print? Well, it’s not what you would call a finely honed system calculated to achieve a balance of perspectives, nor is it premeditated to bring about an intended response. We simply select some interesting ones that are fairly representative of...Read more

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Letters

March 1, 2003

Dear Dave, Regarding a question in the Dec. ’02 issue as to when angels were created, Job:38:4-7 [4] Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. [5] Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line...Read more

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News Alert

March 1, 2003

Agape Press, 11/1/02: Excerpts from “Rethinking Veggie Tales” by Cathy Mickels Christian pollster George Barna’s research has concluded doctrinal confusion abounds today within the Christian church….Furthermore, Barna stated, “because we remain a largely Bible-illiterate society, few are alarmed or even aware of the slide toward ‘syncretism’—a belief system that blindly...Read more

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Question: Mr. Hunt, I think you must shoulder some responsibility for the way that [What Love Is This?] has been received....I wonder at what point you are no longer “fighting the good fight” but beginning to sow discord among believers....

March 1, 2003

Question: The Lord has used both you and Mr. McMahon to truly impact me and drive me into the Scriptures. I adamantly condemn the way professing believers, regarding your views of Calvinism , have treated you. However, with all due respect, Mr. Hunt, I think you must shoulder some responsibility...Read more

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Question[condensed]: You said the massacre of Arabs by Jews at Deir Yassin in 1948 “didn’t happen.”...It must be frustrating...to realize that you are one of the few people...who knows what really did or didn’t happen at Deir Yassin....

March 1, 2003

Question[condensed]: You said the massacre of Arabs by Jews at Deir Yassin in 1948 “didn’t happen.” Jewish historian Benny Morris...says that it was mainly due to atrocities such as Deir Yassin that the Palestinians fled their homeland in 1948 (not because of some Arab radio broadcasts [as you claim] telling...Read more

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Question: If I...crawl on my hands and knees to beg forgiveness of a holy and mighty God—how can that cause me to feel pride?

March 1, 2003

Question: I can’t thank you enough for What Love Is This? My husband and I began attending a Southern Baptist ...Sunday school class. The teacher is a die-hard Calvinist....I brought up some objections and was informed that I should email him instead of disrupting the class. I’ve experienced sleepless nights...Read more

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Question: Enclosed is an article that kind of “blind-sided” me by a thought I’m having trouble with, i.e., why aren’t evangelicals today warning Jews about the eventual slaughter of most of them who return to Israel?

March 1, 2003

Question: Enclosed is an article that kind of “blind-sided” me by a thought I’m having trouble with, i.e., why aren’t evangelicals today warning Jews about the eventual slaughter of most of them who return to Israel ? Answer: The author, Gary DeMar, insists that Christ’s statements in Matthew 24 were...Read more

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Question: Is Islam’s aggression any different from the routine bloodshed of the Old Testament? Israel claimed then to be following God’s orders, as Muslims claim to follow Allah’s.

March 1, 2003

Question: Is Islam ’s aggression any different from the routine bloodshed of the Old Testament? Israel claimed then to be following God’s orders, as Muslims claim to follow Allah’s. Answer: There is a huge difference. Muslims claim to follow Allah. He is not the God of the Bible (see Q&A...Read more

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Quotable

March 1, 2003

The family...is now collapsing….In a video-saturated culture in which, to play on Auden’s lines, “[A]nguish comes by cable,/ And the deadly sins/ can be bought in tins/ With instructions on the label,” film and television now provide the [basic] values that were once provided by the family...children are lifted away...Read more