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C. Marvin Pate
... to see the poor Indians, who the other day were hallooing and yelling in their idolatrous feasts and drunken frolics, now crying to God with such importunity for an interest in His dear Son.”5 Anyone who believes on and confesses the Lord Jesus Christ will be saved. Biography: Christopher Hitchens and Peter Hitchens are brothers: one is an atheist, the other a Christian. After Peter regained his Christian faith, he wrote a book entitled The Rage against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith. His older brother ...
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Luke 17:1-10, 2 Timothy 1:1-2:13, Lamentations 1:1-22, Psalm 137:1-9
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William E. Keeney
... can lead to deeper faith. Someone has said that it is better to ask big questions than to give little answers. 2. Thankful for Criticism. Mother Teresa has received some severe criticism in recent years. It came both in a Vanity Fair article by Christopher Hitchens and in The Door, a magazine of a Texas-based religious order. She had received major gifts from Charles Keating, who was convicted for junk bond dealings in a savings and loan scandal. He had contributed over a million dollars to her organization ...
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C. Hassell Bullock
... God’s manifestation of himself to and among them. Illustrating the Text Denying God does not improve human morals. Science: In our world there is a movement called the “new atheism,” championed by such writers as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. It is different from the “old” atheism that was largely based on philosophical grounds. Rather, it is based on the growing body of new discoveries, particularly about the universe and its origins. Interestingly, the uniqueness of Psalm 14 (and 53 ...
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Dean Feldmeyer
... and heaven is a physical, geographical place that your “soul” or “spirit” goes to after you die. Scientists who number themselves among what are called “the new atheists,” — notably, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and the late Christopher Hitchens — and who require tangible, testable proof of such things, reject, out of hand, the notion of a physical, geographical place called heaven. While these two camps wage raucous war against each other, those of us who see no conflict ...
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