Author: Rev Dr Peter Barnes

There are good reasons for rejecting the diagnosis that the problem with religion is that it discriminates, and the proposed cure that it not be allowed to discriminate any longer.

1. The whole approach is putting Australian law on a radically different basis.
Christianity teaches its followers to think in …

In 2001 the state Labor government in Victoria passed the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act, which made it an offence to offend, insult or humiliate anyone on racial or religious grounds. This was yet another triumph in the art of carrying out persecution while claiming the moral high ground. On …

The Westminster Confession in chapter X on Effectual Calling declares that ‘Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ, through the Spirit, who worketh when, and where, and how He pleaseth: so also are all other elect persons who are uncapable of being outwardly called by the …

In 1971 Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones reminisced on Welsh radio: ‘I shall never forget myself travelling in a train back from Plymouth to London once. We arrived at Newton Abbot and a woman with two small girls came into the compartment where I was sitting. It was obvious that the children …

In Galatians 6:14 Paul writes of three crucifixions: ‘But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.’ Then in Colossians 2:14 Paul says that the law was set …