Round-up of interesting and noteworthy posts on sites and blogs I’ve recently come across…

• How do you come to your understanding of Jesus Christ of Nazareth? Excerpt: To demonstrate how ludicrous a relationship dependent upon such sources of knowledge is, consider what might happen to a husband and wife who try to form an intimate relationship with each other by relying on the insights of other people who claim to know them. That’s a sure recipe for failure, yet Christians often run to extrabiblical sources for their knowledge of Jesus. – The “Jesus” the World Loves @ The Berean Call

• Have you heard about that ridiculous Newsweek article in which the writer attempts to use the Holy Bible to support gay “marriage” and/or make denouncing the thing seem hypocritical…without apparently even reading the Holy Bible? Well, of course, Christians (and people with brains) weren’t going to take this obvious diluting of the Holy Scriptures sitting down — Get Religion’s Sola Scriptura minus the scriptura

• Have you had to leave a church you’ve called your home forever because emergent wolves had crept in? Of course, you’re not alone… and it’s not always easy to tell when it’s time to run. I have to add that I’m quite happy with this “emergent/ emerging” term to describe these people and their unbiblical ideas/teachings — they need to emerge from among the true Christians and truly be separated from the FLOCK. – Olive-Tree Ministries’ Memoirs of an Emergent Church Victim

• Wow… an astronomer has Jesus Christ’s “birth star” down to the month, day and year! I don’t see how it bears any significance to Christians acknowledging our SAVIOR’s birth NO MATTER WHEN IT WAS. It’s just a rather interesting idea that the LORD our GOD might have set a factual, provable marker in the heavens to note HIS incarnation. I know the Scriptures note it, but for us, thousands of years later, to find some kind of evidence of it here in our time is curious. Then again, this “proof and “theory” could all be bunk. – Cancel Christmas – Jesus was born June 17…

• Well, now that Satan his hijacked the term “Christian” and introduced many different “Jesuses,” I guess it’s time to totally give Sola Scriptura the boot. Excerpt: As one trained in counter-cult apologetics it’s obvious to me that for any group to establish itself they must first lessen, or get rid of, the authority of the Bible. - Apprising Ministries’ The Emergent Church Soon To Put Forth A Gay Face

• I am waiting for the day to come when we won’t have to keep imploring and reminding our susceptible brothers and sisters that GOD never promised and Jesus wasn’t born and died and resurrected so that we could be rich or even happy in this present life. Really, HE didn’t. The gift is LIFE ETERNAL. That is our joy and lasting peace — that Christ Jesus has truly prepared a place for those who remain faithful to HIM. HE will return HIMSELF to receive us. Alan at Real Christianity expounds on those Blinded by False Promises