Australian Independent Baptist Newsletter
www.Bennett.BibleForToday.org
April 2007
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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AIB Newsletter.
Purpose: To inform and warn God's people of religious,
social, and political events in today's world.
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070310/NEWS02/703100329/1045/LIFE05
ACTIVISTS REPORT VANDALISM, HARASSMENT AT IOWA COLLEGE 10 March 2007
(Edited by DCB) Iowa, USA- The group of gay activists known as Soulforce Q when
"traveling on a bus tour to spread a message of equality and inclusion to
Christian colleges was harassed this week at Dordt College in Sioux Center."
Dort College officials "apologized to the members of the organization that works
to end political and religious oppression of gays." The Soulforce Q "group has
targeted policies such as the one cited in the Dordt College faculty and student
handbook that says ‘sexual relations with someone of the same gender’ are
unacceptable."
Editor’s Comment: God never has put His approval on sodomy! In the
first Book of the Bible God said "And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall
upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh
instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a
woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my
bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken
out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall
cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh" Genesis 2: 21-24. God also
said in Genesis 1:28 for this man and woman to "Be fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth". This could never be said to two of the same sex!
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2007/03/hrc_homosexuali.html
March 15, 2007 HRC: HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT IMMORAL (Edited by DCB) Hillary
Clinton, the wife of philanderer and former President Bill Clinton said she did
"not think homosexuality is immoral."
Editor’s Comment: These are the words of a person seeking the highest
office in the United States of America! Ms. Clinton and those like her are
"...blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall
into the ditch" Matthew 15:14. At http://www.willowcreek.org/teaching_pastors.asp
is revealed the fact that Willow Creek Community Church has 5 teaching
pastors of whom one is a woman. Then when you go to the right of that page
and click on Board of Elders you will discover that there are five women on the
Board of Elders. I am dumbfounded how independent Baptist pastors blindly
following such Biblical error.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17723147/site/newsweek/ March 21, 2007-An
interview with former President and Southern Baptist Sunday school teacher,
Jimmy Carter reveals that he considers Mormons as Christians. When asked "Do
you think a Mormon is a Christian?" Mr. Carter said "Yes, I do. I have a cousin
who is a Mormon and she married one of the Marriott family. I don’t know anyone
who’s more devout in their faith than she and her family. I admire them very
much."
Editor’s Comment: Is a Mormon’s faith for salvation solely in the
person and work of Jesus Christ alone? From http://www.mormon.org/learn/0,8672,889-1,00.html
we read "Jesus Christ did what only He could do in atoning for our sins. To make
His Atonement fully effective in our individual lives, we must have faith in
Christ, repent of our sins, be baptized, receive the Holy Ghost, obey God’s
commandments, and strive to become like Him. As we do these things through His
Atonement, we can return to live with Him and our Heavenly Father forever." Mr.
Carter is wrong for those who believe and follow Mormon teachings are not true
Bible Christians.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/christian.and.buddhist.children.to.learn.way.of.peace/9985.htm
CHRISTIAN AND BUDDHIST CHILDREN TO LEARN WAY OF PEACE 18 March 2007
(Edited by DCB) In Great Britain "Manchester Cathedral and the Manchester
Buddhist Centre have been awarded a £2000 grant to support a peace initiative
for local schools." The "Visiting school children will have the opportunity to
discuss contemporary issues and experience peacefulness through lighting candles
and taking part in a meditative ‘stilling’ exercise."
Editor’s Comment: Without doubt the Manchester Cathedral is apostate.
Deuteronomy 32:16 "They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with
abominations provoked they him to anger."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070323/us_nm/usa_gay_retirees_dc&printer=1;_ylt=
AsGmXYeAruQfFesodgPQkIgXIr0F L.A. GAY RETIREES GET FIRST LOW-COST
HOUSING UNITS March 22, 2007 (Edited by DCB) The first low-cost housing
development in the United States "aimed specifically at gay, lesbian and
transgender retirees opened its doors in Hollywood on Thursday with a promise to
provide a dignified haven for elderly homosexuals to live out their days." About
one third of the units are set aside "for low-income older Americans with
HIV/AIDS, those who are homeless or at risk of being homeless." According to a
University of California study LA has a population of 442,000 sodomites. Only
New York has more. The almost twenty one million dollar project was paid for by
the California taxpayer and LA city agencies which I assume also receive their
money from the taxpayer. Sodomy is becoming more and more accepted and the
taxpayer is going to pay the bill! Sodomy is an abominable sin in the sight of
our holy God! 1Kings 14:24 "And there were also sodomites in the land: and they
did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out
before the children of Israel."
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/03/evangelist_suspends_ministry_a.php
EVANGELIST SUSPENDS MINISTRY AFTER EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR REVELATIONS 26 March
2007 (Edited by DCB) Southern Baptist Evangelist Rick Ousley has admitted to an
adulterous affair (the article called it an extra marital affair) and
consequently Ousley has "suspended his ministry and speaking engagements". The
statement he made to his former church, http://www.brookhills.org/news/events_onetime/page_
ousleystatement.htm said that he had made "a moral and spiritual indiscretion
with a woman not my wife." Ousley has also stepped down as chaplain of the
Samford University football team. He resigned from The Church of Brook Hills,
Birmingham, AL in May of 2005 after leading it from thirty members to over
4,000. Ousley has also been divorced once. This is the Laodicean condition of
Christendom in the USA today!
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=
2007-03-26T193707Z_01_N26427899_RTRUKOC_0_US-GAY-JEWS.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
NEW YORK JEWISH SEMINARY WILL ALLOW GAYS, LESBIANS 26 March, 2007 (Edited
by DCB) - A so called conservative New York Jewish seminary, The Jewish
Theological Seminary, "has agreed to admit gays and lesbians who want to become
rabbis, but declined to take a stand on whether rabbis should officiate at
same-sex unions." The seminary commissioned a survey which showed "65 percent of
Conservative rabbis in favor of allowing gay and lesbian rabbis and cantors
compared to 28 percent who were opposed." In early March, 2007 the
"conservative" "Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism
in Los Angeles -- began accepting gay and lesbian applicants." The pressing
issue now for Jewish congregations and rabbis "is whether they are going to do
commitment ceremonies."
Editor’s Comment: This unseemly sin continues to be accepted by more
and more but we must be faithful to "Preach the word; be instant in season, out
of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine" 2Timothy
4:2.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/us/27churches.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
FOR SOME BLACK PASTORS, ACCEPTING GAY MEMBERS MEANS LOSING OTHERS March
27, 2007 (Edited by DCB) ATLANTA, GA — After the Pastor of African-American
Tabernacle Baptist, Atlanta, GA "began preaching acceptance of gay men and
lesbians a few years ago, he attracted some gay people who were on the brink of
suicide and some who had left the Baptist faith of their childhoods but wanted
badly to return" but at the same time over the past three years Tabernacle’s
attendance on Sunday’s has gone from 1,100 to 800. Another African-American
church in Stone Mountain, GA has seen its attendance fall from 6,000 to 3,000
when the pastor began preaching the acceptance of the sodomite’s lifestyle.
Tabernacle’s pastor began to change his views on sodomites when his son told him
and his wife he was "gay". He then began reading "liberal theologians like Mr.
Gomes and to look at Scripture again." He then began preaching a greater
acceptance of those living in sodomy and that is when "the face of his
congregation" changed. Last year Tabernacle’s pastor held a "commitment ceremony
in the church for two lesbian couples." That caused more people to leave. Those
who left were also those who tithed. Because they left, Tabernacle found it "a
hard time paying for properties it had bought nearby."
Editor’s Comment: How bad can it get?! The acceptance of sodomy will
eventually lead to more and grosser sins such as bestiality. I warn you that the
next article is disgusting!
http://www.ottumwacourier.com/local/local_story_086232322.html March 27, 2007
Ottumwa, Iowa OTTUMWAN MAY FACE PORN CHARGES (Edited by DCB) A man who
worked as a social worker will surrender his social worker’s license "after
authorities found pornographic images of children engaged in sexual acts, as
well as photos of…" the man "engaged in sexual acts with his dog, stored on his
home computer." Other photos found on his computer included the man "in the act
of masturbating his dog."
Editor’s Comment: Genesis 6:5 "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man
was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually."
Because of Calvary,
David C. Bennett, D. Min.