Australian Independent Baptist Newsletter

www.Bennett.BibleForToday.org

January, 2006 #3

Dr. David C. Bennett, Editor (DCB)

PO Box 1241 - Dubbo - NSW 2830

Phone/Fax 02-6884-2846

Email: Bennett@BibleForToday.org

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Purpose: To inform and warn God's people of religious, social, and political events in today's world.

BBC News UK- 2 January 2006 UNMARRIED FREE TO ADOPT AS COUPLE (Edited by DCB) "Unmarried and same-sex couples can now adopt children together for the first time, as part of the biggest overhaul of adoption laws for 30 years. Support groups say the changes, which were passed in 2002, could encourage more people to come forward to adopt."

Editor’s Comment: One feels sorry for the children affected by theses inane laws. Eph 6:2 "Honour thy father and mother…" not your mother and mother or father and father!

Christianpost.com 2 January 2006 CWA SAYS BARBIE WEBSITE PROMOTES GENDER CONFUSION (Edited by DCB) "The Barbie Doll website is asking children aged 4-8 for their sex. The choices are three: ‘girl,’ ‘boy ’and‘I don't know.’"

Editor’s Comment: Mt 19:4 "…he which made them at the beginning made them male and female."

Jerusalem Newswire 5 January 2006 VATICAN MUSCLING IN ON JERUSALEM SAYS JEWS CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH OWNERSHIP OF THEIR ANCIENT CAPITAL (Edited by DCB) "In a statement whose arrogance and contempt he seemingly could not see, the Vatican’s legal advisor in Israel, David Jaeger, told an international conference in Haifa Tuesday that Jerusalem was too important a city to leave in the hands of either ‘Palestinians’ or Jews. Jaeger’s view was that the status of Jerusalem required the approval of the international community as a whole."

Editor’s Comment: 1 Kings 11: 36 "…Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.

WorldNetDaily www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48252 8 January 2006 DAWKINS: RELIGION EQUALS 'CHILD ABUSE' SCIENTIST COMPARES MOSES TO HITLER, CALLS NEW TESTAMENT 'SADO-MASOCHISTIC DOCTRINE' (Edited by DCB) "Controversial scientist and evolutionist Richard Dawkins, dubbed ‘Darwin's Rottweiler,’ calls religion a ‘virus’ and faith-based education ‘child abuse’ in a two-part series he wrote and appears in…" "Entitled ‘Root of All Evil?,’ the series features the atheist Dawkins visiting Lourdes, France, Colorado Springs, Colo., the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem and a British religious school, using each of the venues to argue religion subverts reason."

Editor’s Comment: Ps 14:1 "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God."

Agape Press 9 January 2006 COMING SOON: 'POLYAMORIST RIGHTS'? (Edited by DCB) "It may only be in its beginning stages, but the ‘polyamorist movement’ may be grabbing onto the coat tails of the increasingly effective homosexual movement." A polyamoralist is one who maintains "…more than one emotional-sexual relationship simultaneously, believing that monogamy is unnatural. Relationships can be heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual." According to Paul Harris, a reporter for London’s The Observer, "polyamorists are coming out of the closets across America. Several groups have sprung up. In New York, Polyamorous NYC holds monthly meetings, has an e-mail list of about 800 and holds a Poly Pride Day each year in Central Park." In The Netherlands "…the first polygamous civil union was recorded this fall, when a

man and two women had their relationship legally recognized."

Editor’s Comment: In Mt 19:5 Jesus "…said, For this cause shall a man (singular) leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife (singular): and they twain shall be one flesh?"

Liberty Theological Seminary Spring 2006 "Convocation speakers - 3/3/06 Fri. ---MEW Michael Loftis – President of ABWE Missions Board."

Editor’s Comment: Note Editor’s Comment in the November 2005 AIB Newletter Issue #2 concerning ABWE and the SBC. If the SBC has changed so much one almost wonders why so called independent Baptist boards such as ABWE exist?!

www.philly.com 8 January 2006 THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN PASTOR (Edited by DCB) Rick Warren said he is "…tired of Christians being known for what they're against." "Although he's politically conservative - opposing abortion and gay marriage and supporting the death penalty - he pushes a much broader agenda and disdains both politics and fundamentalism." "Warren predicts that fundamentalism, of all varieties, will be ‘one of the big enemies of the 21st century.’" He said "Muslim fundamentalism, Christian fundamentalism, Jewish fundamentalism, secular fundamentalism - they're all motivated by fear. Fear of each other."

Editor’s Comment: Sadly many so called independent Baptists have followed him in his 40 Days of almost everything and anything and they will follow him in this as well.

12 January 2006 JOHN PAUL ON ROAD TO SAINTHOOD "POLISH anti-communist leader Lech Walesa and the general who faced him across the barricades have been asked to testify in late Pope John Paul's sainthood cause." "Witnesses in the process of beatification - the first step on the road to sainthood - are sworn to secrecy." "A miracle - usually the full healing of a person that the medical community cannot explain scientifically - must be attributed to John Paul's intercession with God before he can be beatified. A second miracle is required for sainthood." The new Pope has "waived church rules to allow the beatification process to start five years early."

Editor’s Comment: Ro 16:15 "Salute…all the saints which are with them." One becomes a saint when alive and having trusted Christ as Saviour. After death it is too late. Someone should tell Benedict.