Andrew McFarland Campbell – Page 3 – Liberal Christian, very liberal Christadelphian

My Precious Golden Cup?

This evening I noticed that there is one verse in the Bible that I have always misread.

In order to avoid breaking the laws of God (and even the laws of man) we all put additional restrictions on parts of our lives. As long as we, as Christians, recognise the difference between our own restrictions and what the Bible says, these restrictions are a good thing. When we muddle up what we say and what the Bible says, we commit a sin that dates all the way back to Eden.

Andrew McFarland Campbell 8 years ago

Christianity

It says so in the Bible!

“It is wrong for Christians to drink/be in a same-sex relationship/get divorced/use Facebook/drive a Prius/issue du jour—it says so in the Bible!” I hear that kind of statement a lot, often from street preachers in Belfast. There are roughly 800,000 words in the Bible. That’s about eight typical novels. So I normally respond with a […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 8 years ago

Christianity

General All-Purpose Quick Prayer of Thanks

Lord, Thank you for all that you are doing for me, Amen

Andrew McFarland Campbell 8 years ago

Christianity

General All-Purpose Quick Prayer

Lord, Give me the wit to know what I am doing, Amen

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years ago

Christianity Gay

My Favourite Translation of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

My favourite translation of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 is from The Message. Don’t you realize that this is not the way to live? Unjust people who don’t care about God will not be joining in his kingdom. Those who use and abuse each other, use and abuse sex, use and abuse the earth and everything in it, […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years ago

Christianity Gay

My Least Favourite Translation of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

I think my least favourite translation of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 is the New King James translation: Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years ago

Gay

Why I’m Not Going to See Ender’s Game

A few years ago I read the novel Ender’s Game. It is a good, if somewhat odd, book about a child soldier in the year 2070. There is a movie based on the book, which is currently on general release in the UK. I’m not going to see the movie. Why? Because Orson Scott Card, the […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years ago

Christianity

The Sun Passes It’s D’oh! Levels!

Today The Sun gained a D’oh! Level in hypocrisy to go with the one it has in sexism.

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years ago

Christianity

Same-Sex Relationships: 1 Corinthians and 1 Timothy Revisited

My paper on 1 Corinthians and 1 Timothy was discussed on a Facebook group recently. One of the contributors made some interesting points about it, and I want to address them here. I have read your article, and if I could sum up your thesis in one sentence, it would be, “1 Cor. 6:9-10 is […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years ago

My Precious Golden Cup?

Fencing Around the Gospel

It says so in the Bible!

General All-Purpose Quick Prayer of Thanks

General All-Purpose Quick Prayer

My Favourite Translation of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

My Least Favourite Translation of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

Why I’m Not Going to See Ender’s Game

The Sun Passes It’s D’oh! Levels!

Same-Sex Relationships: 1 Corinthians and 1 Timothy Revisited