May 2003

News Alert

May 1, 2003

Reuters , April 9, 2003: The Roman Catholic Church has suspended confessions in Singapore due to the spread of the deadly SARS virus and priests will instead forgive all churchgoers for their sins, the Church said on Wednesday. “The Archbishop of Singapore has issued a directive to the priests that...Read more

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Question: I love The Berean Call—but as a good Berean I also check up on you. One book on Islam which you don’t offer is Silent No More....Have you read this book?

May 1, 2003

Question: I love The Berean Call —but as a good Berean I also check up on you. One book on Islam which you don’t offer is Silent No More , by Paul Findley, a member of congress for 22 years. It gives a different perspective than your newsletter. He presents...Read more

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Question: I am puzzled by your statement in the January [’03] Q&A: “the land is Israel, not Palestine....” The term “Palestine” is used four times in the Bible. In Exodus 15:14 it is synonymous with the land of Canaan....Please explain your view.

May 1, 2003

Question: I am puzzled by your statement in the January [’03] Q&A: “the land is Israel , not Palestine....” The term “Palestine” is used four times in the Bible. In Exodus:15:14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina. See All... it...Read more

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Question: Who is Jesus talking to in Matthew 7:22, 23? Nominal Christians? People who “think” they’re Christians? Born-again Christians who messed up?

May 1, 2003

Question: Who is Jesus talking to in Matthew:7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? See All... , 23? Nominal Christians? People who “think”...Read more

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Quotable

May 1, 2003

Erase all thought and fear of God from a community, and selfishness and sensuality would absorb the whole man. Appetite, knowing no restraint, and suffering, having no solace or hope, would trample in scorn on the restraints of human laws. Virtue, duty, principle, would be mocked as unmeaning sounds. A...Read more

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Internet Spiritual Deceivers

May 1, 2003

It’s amazing that some, who sincerely profess to know the Lord and teach His Word, appear to have no con science when it comes to their own obvious deceit. One such character is the owner of domains that cover nearly every slight variation of www.thebereancall.org. For example, if you leave...Read more

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Battle For The Mind

May 1, 2003

Psychic power doesn’t bring peace. The mind trip is a mind trap. Fear of the “dark side” haunts the psychic, the fear that the Force may turn on the one who seeks to manipulate it, or that someone will use psychic power against him. In the mind- science cults, negative...Read more

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Stairway to heaven

May 1, 2003

Why couldn’t even a Mother Teresa get to heaven by good works? Because we are all sinners; and because once we have broken one of God’s commandments we “[are] guilty of all” (Jas 2:10); and “by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight”...Read more

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SARS/Catholics

May 1, 2003

Reuters, 4/9/03: Singapore-The Roman Catholic church has suspended confessions in Singapore due to the spread of the deadly SARS virus and priests will instead forgive all churchgoers for their sins, the church said on Wednesday. "The Archbishop of Singapore has issued a directive to the priests that there will be...Read more

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Jews are Jews

May 1, 2003

"Jews and Arabs are all really children of Abraham," says Harry Ostrer, M.D., Director of the Human Genetics Program at New York University School of Medicine, an author of the new study by an international team of researchers in the United States , Europe , and Israel . "And all...Read more

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