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Post by Dave on May 2, 2012 21:40:22 GMT -5
This Fellowship...
...is an expansion of a community based 'Bible Study' and is intended as an open forum in which to Ponder the issues that Confuse our realities. We crave intelligent academic discussion of our cosmology and theology. Input is invited from as many different voices as possible, including those of Islam, Israel, Rome, Reformers, New Agers, Evolutionist, Chemist, Physicist, and people just like you and me.
We all have something to say and here is a forum to say it!
The educational system has schooled us well in the sciences that govern our lives, but it has also raised questions that are inappropriate to ask in “church.” Likewise, theological questions have become outlawed in school.
Where can these questions be asked and discussed? Right here, that’s where!
The intent is to invite a discussion of science and theology, cosmology, psychology, and ultimately spirituality. New and relevant input, from an amalgam of perspectives, will become additions to the whole body of work evolving our collective understanding ever closer to the central truth.
Why? Because spirituality is the only intelligent life goal of mortality!
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Post by Dave on Aug 3, 2013 18:01:44 GMT -5
The need this Fellowship attempts to address:"I left church because I didn’t always see the compassion of Jesus there, and because my questions about faith and science, the Bible, homosexuality, and religious pluralism were met with shallow answers or hostility. I count myself among the spiritual but not religious, Christian but not churchgoing crowd." Posted August 3rd, 2013, at CNN: religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/02/why-millennials-need-the-church/?hpt=hp_c4
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Post by Dave on Aug 20, 2013 0:21:03 GMT -5
The Alien/UFO opportunity for evangelismMany conspiracy stories conclude that the US Government signed a treaty with an alien race. In return for technology, the aliens were given permission to abduct and experiment upon the population. Sounds crazy – right? But if you look at the statistics since America has reported over 4 million abduction cases since 1950. Coming in a very distant second, England has only reported a few thousand cases in the same time period. The other reporting countries of: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Italy, Russia, and South Africa have only reported a few cases each. While at the same time, countries reporting the most UFO sightings, other than the US, are Mexico and Italy. Are Americans just that much crazier than the rest of the world? Or, could there be something to the conspiracy theory? As a fellowship in Christ, we must recognize that even though these stories might be to bazar to accept, they are to frequent and consistent to ignore. Do we, as the body of Christ, push these millions of people away? Or recognize the enormous evangelical opportunity before us? Our cultures have changed to the point where the average man will engage in a conversation about aliens, UFOs, or supernatural events, but would never step foot inside a church. Read more: ponderingconfusion.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=ufo&action=display&thread=249#ixzz2cU3JKbRN
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Post by Dave on May 28, 2014 13:16:42 GMT -5
Socrates The cultivation of the soul Developing our inner essence through our ability to reflect on things. To seek answers to questions is fundamentally what human life is about.
Therefore, this is what he did. He traveled about engaging in discussions and forcing arguments to form a crucible for the truth.
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