April 2009 | thebereancall.org

April 2009

Do not even such things as are most bitter to the flesh, tend to awaken Christians to faith and prayer, to a sight of the emptiness of this world, and the fadingness of the best it yield? Doth not God by these things (ofttimes) call our sins to remembrance, and...Read more
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“To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set it forth very low.” --Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758),...Read more
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"Some of my friends good-humoredly – and some a little bit severely – have called me a ‘mystic.’ Well I’d like to say this about any mysticism I may suppose to have. If an archangel from heaven were to come, and were to start giving me, telling me, teaching me,...Read more
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Islamist Hate Exposed By Traditional Values Coalition [Excerpts] The Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) in Fairfax, VA went before the local planning commission Wednesday night to seek an expansion of their controversial and secretive school funded and controlled by the Saudi government. A large group of residents near the school asked...Read more
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Darwinists Tie Themselves Into Knots Denying the Obvious [Excerpts] Some Darwinists will say anything to try to draw attention away from the obvious. Darwin was a firmly committed racist, and he was not shy about expressing his racist views: “At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries,...Read more
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"Prior to Darwin, it was difficult to argue against the Judeo-Christian conception of the unity of man, based on the single creation of Adam and Eve. Darwin's theory suggested that humans had evolved over hundreds of thousands, even millions of years, and that the races of men had diverged while...Read more
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Staring into the Abyss Why Peter Singer makes the New Atheists nervous. [Excerpts] [Peter] Singer is a mild-mannered fellow who speaks calmly and lucidly. Yet you wouldn't have to read his work too long to find his extreme positions. He cheerfully advocates infanticide and euthanasia and, in almost the same...Read more
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Confidentiality of Psychiatric Manual’s Update Draws Gripes [Excerpts] The American Psychiatric Association is getting criticism for the secret process of putting together the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a defining volume of mental disorders. Published by the APA, the manual, known as DSM, is...Read more
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