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British values were Evangelical Christian values

We live, now, in a low trust society. We now expect our governments to deceive us into compliance using psychological manipulation. We assume our insurance company will be rewarding our loyalty by quietly escalating our premiums. We have no way of negotiating the cashless world without a bank account, but the banks are free to freeze our account without explanation at any time. And, of course, we take it for granted that abortions, divorces and STD will increase exponentially, that schools and universities will teach our kids perversion and political propaganda, that real wages and jobs will decline as corrupt oligarchs prosper, and that the police and courts will routinely … Continue reading

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Donald Campbell and Darwinian theory

A YouTube video by a member of the engineering team that salvaged and restored Donald Campbell’s jet boat Bluebird from Lake Coniston explores why the boat’s recent return to that lake proved a bit of a damp squib.

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Speech suppression more contagious than COVID – and certainly deadlier

Thames Valley Police have (through some legal device or other) cancelled an Oxford Union Debate, promoted by the Union’s female Muslim president, on whether Islam is compatible with Western civilization. She had invited Tommy Robinson, Laurence Fox and Rev Calvin Robinson, and reportedly even Jacob Rees-Mogg, to speak.

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Unite the Kingdom May 16

I suppose many of my UK readers will be up to speed on the rally in London yesterday, organised by the infamous Tommy Yaxley-Robinson, originally known as Stephen Real-Name. But I attach a few remarks, partly for overseas readers wondering what England has become.

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The triumph of the cross

The ever-helpful YouTube offered me a video which, a little research showed, drew on a 1995 paper by W. E. Schmidt entitled The Crucifixion Narrative and the Roman Triumphal Procession. It was a revelation to me. The article demonstrates the remarkable, and clearly deliberate, similarity between Mark’s account of the humiliation of Jesus as he goes to the Cross and the Imperial Triumph tradition. Mark has shaped his account to show how the Romans (at the instigation of the Jewish authorities) have actually given Jesus an Imperial Triumph, culminating in the Cross as his final victory.

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To Ur is human, to dig divine.

When I wrote The Generations of Heaven and Earth I was concerned with the setting of the biblical Adam and Eve in history, which overlapped with their role in the ancestry of the present human race. This involved discussion of possible geographical settings for Eden, and for the Table of Nations in Genesis 10. This in turn raised the question of possible sites for a regional flood involving Noah.

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Prayers for peace

Christianity has always had an ambivalent attitude towards war, unlike Islam which is unambiguously a religion of peace… once all that is non-Islamic has been obliterated or subjugated by brute force, including the wrong kind of Muslims like the peace-loving Ahmadiyya and any daring to apostasize.

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Temporal resonances

I’ve just given my Stratocaster guitar to my granddaughter, having decided I’m unlikely ever to join another rock band. And in any case, I still have a Telecaster. It’s not a Fender Stratocaster, you understand, but a Japanese Tokai, though when it was made, in 1984, their quality was arguably better than the the CBS Fenders of the time, and certainly superior to Fender’s Japanese Squiers, one of which I bought in 1983, but was never entirely happy with.

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Gospel obedience and the Spirit

We have just celebrated the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and here I am writing yet another post on Pentecostal doctrine. Why? Because Charismatic teaching is still prevalent in Evangelical churches and denominations, and because in these crucial times it actually weakens the resistance of the Church to the increasing concerted attacks of the enemy, and blunts its offensive power. False teaching must inevitably debilitate the Church Militant.

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Jesus was not a failed prophet

Today is Palm Sunday, when the promised Messiah son of Joseph was acclaimed by his people as he came to Zion, but subsequently, in fulfilment of Scripture, was slain in saving them, and was even rejected by the nation (though ascending to God), leading to a new exile for Israel until the coming of the Messiah son of David as a conquering king, inaugurating the eternal kingdom of God.

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