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Australia A Ministry of Teaching But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age...to discern (diakrisis) both good and evil (Heb. 5:14) Whom shall He teach knowledge? and whom shall He make to understand doctrine?... (Is.28:9) Newsletter of TA Ministries Vol.2, No.44 January/February 2007 PO Box 1499, Hervey Bay, Qld, 4655 Editors Comments Australia In the September/October editorial Mike Claydon wrote of the ‘New Ph. 0411489472 (Mob.) Fax (07)41240915 tolerance’, in which we are being encouraged to not only tolerate other beliefs Website:http://taministries.cjb.net/ but also accept them as valid and amoral. Traditional ‘Tolerance’ used to E-mail: [email protected] distinguish between the person and the belief. Now ‘all truths are equal’ and if we question any we are supposedly ‘intolerant’ of the persons themselves. TA Ministries is a non-denominational faith Similarly, the ecumenical movement has opened its arms to nearly every ministry, teaching, informing and equipping system including those holding to ‘another gospel’. Few realise that many the church. churches that would claim to be Bible believing, have a gospel that is diametrically opposed to that of the Roman Catholic system. Even a shallow Editor: Terry Arnold (Dip. Bib.&Min., Dip. reading of the teachings of the Roman Catholic religion will show that they Teaching, Author.) simply do not teach that the simple Biblical Gospel of faith in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ as a substitute for our sins, will alone Sub-editor: Mike Claydon save the human soul. Instead they openly add sacraments, a continuing The editors may not necessarily agree with sacrifice, other mediators (Mary) and various works that affect the salvation all the views expressed by subscribers in this of a man’s soul. Yet according to Scripture there is only one true Gospel. newsletter. Not so many decades ago one could have wondered how the religions of the world could unite, having salvation systems that oppose each other. Yet, now We welcome comments and articles we see this happening before our very eyes! The emotive glue that helps bring contributed by readers. Unless otherwise this together is the ‘new tolerance’. The method is to ‘find the things that requested, these may be included in following unite’...and forget about the things that differ. But sadly the things that newsletters at the discretion of the editor. ‘differ’ are often the very fundamental doctrines of the faith once delivered! This ‘new tolerance’ extends to other facets of church life. We tolerate the Articles in this newsletter may be copied or reproduced provided it is in context and proper fashions of the world and its methods and marketing strategies. We tolerate credit and references are given. We encourage carnal behaviour in churches that years ago would have brought discipline - distribution of this newsletter that others today it is unloving to ‘discipline’ Christians who cause offence, sin and might be taught, informed and equipped. trouble in the Church body. We tolerate false prophets and false teachers who bring public shame to the Christian church. We tolerate the music of the This Newsletter is distributed bi-monthly world in the church - music that sounds like, looks like, and appeals to the free of charge. The cost to this ministry is flesh like, that of the world. We tolerate organisations such as ‘Hillsong’ who approximately $20.00 per subscriber annually. make this music and churn out leaders who induce rebellion in the hearts of Any donations to help with these expenses is our young and not so young...and worse, we tolerate the teaching behind the received with gratitude. music and wonder why many of the leaders in it have fallen in shameful sin. Contents We live in an age of ‘tolerance’. It is no longer ‘loving’ to be ‘intolerant’ P.1 - Editors Comments in many of these things. It is just not popular to swim against the tide. It is P.2 - Islam - Who Has To Apologize?; easier to stand for nothing or be impaled on the fence of compromise. Chronology of Christianity People hate controversy. But a reading of the early church leaders and the P.3 - Mormonism and Charles Finney...; greats down through the centuries show that any greatness was within the Understanding The Times Conferences very act of contending for the faith. Many of them were actually quite P.4 - Catholics and Christians in ‘Rain ‘intolerant’ of Roman Catholicism, false ecumenism, and the fashions of the Prayer’; Ted Haggard - Homosexual Sin?; age (Rom.12:2). They were no strangers to ‘controversy’ and many stood in Australian ‘Idols’; The Gospel quite lonely places at various times in their lives. P.5-8 - ‘Herald of Hope’ and ‘Election’ But it was because of these strong voices that the tide of apostasy was often P.9,10 - Book Review - ‘Hard To Believe’ held back. Today, there are so few of these men, and so apostasy is rampant. by John Macarthur; Quotables! Beloved, the scriptures still cry out to ‘earnestly contend for the faith P.11,12 - Bible Versions; Your comments which was once delivered unto the saints’, (Jude 3). and Questions Terry Arnold Islam - Who Has To Apologize? By Jan Willem Van der Hoeven (Director International Christian Zionist Centre) You want an apology? I and many with me are waiting and that mercy in the words I just heard from Ibrahim for an apology from you! You want Pope Benedict to Mudeiris, one of the Imams of the Palestinian Authority apologize for having quoted a Byzantine Emperor for saying who was caught in a recording and translated by Palestinian there is something inherently evil in the teachings of Islam Media Watch?: ‘Israel is a cancer spreading through the in regard to Jihad and Violence. You feel hurt and incensed body of the Islamic nation’, he raged ‘And…the Jews are a that these words are an attack upon your faith and prophet. virus resembling AIDS, from which the entire world suffers’. But what about you again and again attacking the West ‘You will find that the Jews were behind all the civil strife and Israel, calling the U.S. the big Satan and Israel the in this world. The Jews are behind the suffering of the small Satan, and daring to call, (openly basing yourself on nations...It was the Jews who provoked Nazism to wage war the teachings of the Quran), Jews and Christians pigs and against the entire world…We have ruled the world before, monkeys! And you want the West to apologize for a Danish and by Allah, the day will come when we will rule the entire cartoon or a quote from the Pope when we have to suffer, not world again. The day will come when we will rule America. only your violent words but, what is far more serious, your The day will come when we will rule Britain and the entire violent acts of war and terror. It is not enough that world - except for the Jews. The Jews will not enjoy a life of Mohammed in his comparatively short lifetime waged more tranquillity under our rule, because they are treacherous than forty wars - sanctified Jihad and violence - and butchered by nature, as they have been throughout history. The day thousands of Christians and Christian communities and will come when everything will be relieved of the Jews - Jews in order to spread the teachings of Islam. even the stones and trees which were harmed by them. Do you now have to show the world, by burning churches Listen to the Prophet Muhammad, who tells you about the and murdering Christians from the Philippines to the evil end that awaits Jews. The stones and trees will want the hundreds of thousands of Sudanese, from Indonesia to Muslims to finish off every Jew.” Pakistan - that you are apparently still not a peaceful And what about the words of Hamed Al-Tamimi, the religion that believes in a merciful God? Not to speak of all director of the so-called Palestinian Authority’s Inter the scorn, hatred and indiscriminate killings you heap upon Religion Dialogue Department, who recently unleashed a God’s own people, the Jews, now back in the land that our vicious attack on Christian Zionists for ‘carrying out their God, the only true God, promised them as an everlasting criminal activities against the Palestinian issue and the possession. Palestinian people’. ‘The Zionist-Christian motivation, in And you make fun of this, our sincerely held belief, addition to imperialist motivation, was behind the cursed believed by millions of Jews and Christians - calling us pigs Balfour Declaration - Balfour and Prime Minister Lloyd and monkeys; but giving yourself in the meantime the right George were Christian Zionists…and the truth is we should to burn synagogues as you did in Gush Katif and churches not deny [that] these Crusader motivations stand [today] from Nablus to Nigeria because we hurt your religious sensitivity. behind the British and American policy in Palestine, Iraq, It is to us that you owe an apology - and we should finally Afghanistan, and other Arab and Muslim countries’. ‘They hear that you are sorry to have blasphemed our faiths, [Christian Zionists] are a group who adopted Satan as God caused untold sufferings, rivers of tears through your Allah- who drives their crazy nature. They have praised depravity inspired acts of inhumane terror, from Munich to the towers and cursed virtue, they have turned the moral scale upside in New York, from the Metro in Madrid to the Tube in down and have reached [a point] in which forgery, deception, London, from the thousands Christians in Sudan to the and lying, have turned into descriptions of world policy, thousands of Jews in Israel, from the children in Ma’alot to which is led by the Zionism on both its branches - the Jewish the murdered children in Breslan, Chechnya, from the and the Christian’.

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