The Catholic Roots of Obama's Activism

THE NEW YORK TIMES

CHICAGO — In a meeting room under Holy Name Cathedral, a rapt group of black Roman Catholics listened as Barack Obama, a 25-year-old community organizer, trained them to lobby their fellow delegates to a national congress in Washington on issues like empowering lay leaders and attracting more believers.

“He so quickly got us,” said Andrew Lyke, a participant in the meeting who is now the director of the Chicago Archdiocese’s Office for Black Catholics. The group succeeded in inserting its priorities into the congress’s plan for churches, Mr. Lyke said, and “Barack Obama was key in helping us do that.”

By the time of that session in the spring of 1987, Mr. Obama — himself not Catholic — was already well known in Chicago’s black Catholic circles.

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What do the Multiple Version Men leave us With?

By Kent Brandenburg

If I were to rank the recent stir-ups that related to the Bible, as to national interest, they would be the following:  (1)  Duck Dynasty Phil Robertson's homosexuality comments, (2)  John MacArthur's Strange Fire Conference, (3)  NCFIC Holy Hip-Hop panel discussion, and (4)  Mark Driscoll charged with plagiarism for several of his books.  If I were to rank a number five, it is the hub-bub over the documentary by Chris Pinto that questioned the veracity of Tischendorf's Sinaiticus Greek New Testament manuscript.  This included comments from Dan Wallace, a debate between Pinto and James White, several blog posts attacking Pinto from various sources, and a lot of mileage in discussion forum debate.  Why did this number five create such a furor?

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Wisdom from Charles Spurgeon on Critics & the Bible

 “Believe in the inspiration of Scripture, and believe it in the most intense sense…. If you adopt theories which pare off a portion here, and deny authority to a passage there, you will at last have no inspiration left, worthy of the name.

“If this book be not infallible, where shall we find infallibility? We have given up the Pope, for he has blundered often and terribly; but we shall not set up instead of him a horde of little popelings fresh from college. Are these correctors of Scripture infallible? Is it certain that our Bibles are not right, but that the critics must be so?

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Dave Hunt on Codex Sinaiticus & Codex Vaticanus

With so much activity of late on the issue of the credibility of Codex Sinaiticus, and with it the Codex Vaticanus, we are thankful to have found two articles from the late Dave Hunt on the subject.  While Dave was certainly not "King James Only" with all that that label applies, he primarily used the KJV because he believed it represented the Majority Text for the Bible.  He also believed that the manuscripts used for the Critical Greek Text (i.e. Vaticanus & Sinaiticus) were badly corrupted.

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R.C. Sproul on The Infallibility of the Bible

An excellent teaching by Dr. Sproul on the subject of "Infallibility & Inerrancy" where the Bible is concerned, showing how the word "infallible" signifies that God's Word cannot fail.  Sproul also confronts the position of many modern critics, who argue that the Bible is inerrant in matters of faith and practice, but not necessarily in matters of history and science.  Yet Jesus said, "If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?" (John 3:12)  In other words, if we cannot trust Jesus in matters of history and science, how could we possibly trust Him concerning salvation?  We HIGHLY recommend this teaching from Dr. Sproul, which will help to equip those who wish to defend the authority of the Scriptures.

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