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" The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment. "
Tony Campolo
Scripture
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" The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media. "
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" Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God. "
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" Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time. "
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" In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer. "
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" In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing! "
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" And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons. "
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" The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor. "
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" In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo. "
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" I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored. "
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" Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent. "
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" While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature. "
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" In our post-Freudian world, it is no longer a goal to become people of character who live out a God-ordained ideal of selfhood. "
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" If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state? "
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" I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil! "
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" Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House. "
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" An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God. "
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" But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States? "
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" If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be. "
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" I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong. "
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" Insofar as the church fails to do the will of God, I am called upon to help it discover and to do the will of God; and I am called upon to help the government to do the same. "
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" I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life. "
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" Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith. "
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" I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country. "
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" So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present. "
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