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Texas Baptist Forum
Posted: 3/31/06
Texas Baptist Forum
Laying on hands
Scripture places much more importance upon “laying on hands” than those esteemed men who were cited in “Laying on hands” (March 20). Hebrews 6:1-2 lists laying on hands as a foundational doctrine, giving it weight equal to repentance from dead works, faith toward God, baptisms, resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.
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“For faith to be authentic, it must be freely embraced. … In a post-9/11 world where individuals die for their faith while others kill in the name of their religion, America's founding principle of religious liberty takes on even greater prominence.”Robert A. Seiple
U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom (RNS)“Immigrants have values that can convert America and return America to the values of thrift and hard work.”
Manuel A. Vasquez
University of Florida religion professor (RNS)“My sense is that we will see the development of human/animal hybrids, mammals that have more and more bits of human in them. You can see a progression developing here that you might not be able to stop.”
Nigel Cameron
Professor of bioethics at the Illinois Institute of
Technology (RNS)“It’s arrogant to say that either religion or science can answer all our questions. I don’t see the need either to banish one or the other or to artificially unite them.”
Susan Fisher Miller
Editor and English professor in Atlanta, commenting on the “debate” between religion and evolution (New York Times)How could Charles Spurgeon reject the practice “as a form of ritualism that could easily lapse into popery”? He did not refuse to preach the doctrines of grace, although many perverted the teachings to become libertines.
04/05/2006 - By John Rutledge
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