Australian Independent Baptist Newsletter
www.Bennett.BibleForToday.org
May 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.
WHO IS THE SAVIOUR? http://liveearth.org/climate_crisis.php Those who believe
the Bible say "Jesus saves" but not those of the global warming religion. They
say that with the rising of global temperatures glaciers will melt and species
will be decimated and it is up to each one of us to save ourselves! Listen as
they preach that "…it's not just plants, animals or ‘the environment’ that must
be saved -- it's us." "Only we can Save Our Selves from our climate crisis. And
we must" (underlining added).
Editor’s Comment: I believe in climate change and in global warming. The
Bible says in Revelation 16: 8, 9 "And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon
the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. And men were
scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over
these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory." Psalm 55:16 "As for me,
I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me."
2Corinthians 2:17 "FOR WE ARE NOT AS MANY, WHICH CORRUPT THE WORD OF GOD…"
"The Earth Bible has been developed by a team of scholars from Adelaide, South
Australia. In this significant new series, writers from around the world read
the Bible from the perspective of justice for Earth. Ecojustice principles are
used as guidelines as they ask questions of the text: Does a given text value or
de-value Earth? Is the voice of Earth heard or suppressed? Are humans portrayed
as 'rulers' over Earth or kin with Earth? Does Earth suffer unjustly?"
Editor’s Comment: Note how they have capitalized "Earth". These are they of
whom God speaks in Romans 1:25 saying "Who changed the truth of God into a lie,
and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator…"
WHAT THE UN THINKS OF CHRISTIANITY. http://www.un-ngls. org/documents/publications.en/agenda21/12.htm
The United Nations is not a friend of the Christian Gospel. Why do I say that?
The UN says that "Before the advent of colonization and of Christianity and
Islam, the African lived in harmony with nature." But when the white man arrived
and especially the missionary, things changed. "Missionaries who trooped to
Africa alongside the colonial masters discouraged traditional practices such as
the worshipping of rivers, mountains, and trees, which they described as
idolatry and heathen."
Editor’s Comment: 1 Thessalonians 1: 9 "For they themselves shew of us what
manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to
serve the living and true God."
"MARK THEM WHICH CAUSE DIVISIONS AND OFFENCES CONTRARY TO THE DOCTRINE WHICH
YE HAVE LEARNED" Romans 16: 17. http://www.anglican.ca/news/news.php? newsItem=2007-04-16_abc.news
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY - CHURCH NEEDS TO LISTEN PROPERLY TO THE BIBLE 16 April
2007 (Edited by DCB) Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in giving his
"Larkin Stuart lecture" spoke of the "savage and menacing beast called a
'fundamentalist'". Later in his talk he gave "Two contentious examples" in the
Scriptures. One was John 14: 6 where he said "Jesus says in the Farewell
Discourses of John's Gospel that 'no-one comes to the Father except by me'. As
an isolated text, this is regularly used to insist that salvation depends upon
explicit confession of Christ, and so as a refutation of any attempt to create a
more 'inclusive' theology of interfaith relations." The second "contentious"
passage according to Williams is Romans One. Williams said "Paul in the first
chapter of Romans famously uses
same-sex relationships as an illustration of human depravity -- along with
other 'unnatural' behaviours such as scandal, disobedience to parents and lack
of pity." The answer is found in chapter Two according to Williams and he says
"Paul is making a primary point not about homosexuality but about the delusions
of the supposedly law-abiding."
Editor’s Comment: Jude 4 "For there are certain men crept in unawares, who
were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace
of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord
Jesus Christ."
2Thessalonians 3:14 "AND IF ANY MAN OBEY NOT OUR WORD BY THIS EPISTLE, NOTE
THAT MAN, AND HAVE NO COMPANY WITH HIM, THAT HE MAY BE ASHAMED." I personally
had never heard of Ten Commandments Day until the 18th of April when I received
an unsolicited email stating Ten Commandments Day would be observed by many in
the USA on Sunday the 6th May, 2007. With an inquisitive mind I went to http://tencommandmentsday.com/read.php?id=15
and found that its promoters are a patch- work of ecumenical high flyers. At
this web site names such as Chuck Colson, James Dobson, John Hagee and Jerry
Falwell are listed along with others. Then at http://tencommandmentsday.com/10CDay.
php other names given as being "involved with the Ten Commandments Day include"
TBN’s Paul Crouch, Benny Hinn, Marilyn Hickey, and James Kennedy.
Editor’s Comment: I wonder if Falwell or Kennedy ever get convicted that the
Lord might be asking them "What doest thou here" 1Kings 19:9?
Because of Calvary,
David C. Bennett, D. Min.