Robert on October 20th, 2009

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Robert on November 19th, 2008

Three short talks by Nicky Gumbel about:

Is faith irrational?
Does religion do more harm than good?
Has science disproved God?

Is God a delusion?

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Robert on September 25th, 2008

I’ve been challenged by the multitude of views expressed by, for and against this faith we call Christianity.  In particular the effort that is put into one part of the church knocking another part.  Now I guess it is fair enough that those outside the church could be anti it.  There are those who have [...]

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Robert on August 7th, 2008

I saw this in a Church whilst on holiday in Italy: La verita vi fara liberi. It’s from John’s Gospel chapter 8:
31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you [...]

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Robert on July 16th, 2008

A joke from the Cold War.
There were two Soviet Union newspapers. One called Pravda, meaning “truth”, and the other Ivestia, meaning “news”.
The joke was: “There’s no news in Pravda, and no truth in Izvestia.”

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Robert on July 13th, 2008

A friend likes to tell me there is more than one path up the mountain.
Consider the Earth.  Popular opinion at one time thought the Earth was flat.  It could be.  The bit I live on is flat.  I can see a long distance from where I am and that is mostly flat, apart from the hills.  [...]

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Robert on July 9th, 2008

The X-Files tag line was “The Truth is Out There”. But how do you know what the truth is?
If you search Google for the answer to a question, then you are presented with many answers.  Often contradictory.  In the equality of publication that is the Internet, anyone with a view can publish their version of the truth [...]

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Robert on July 8th, 2008

What is truth? John 18:38, Pilate’s question to Jesus.
A possible answer is an anagram of the phrase: est vir qui adest - ”it is the man who is here.”

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