The Bishop of Breda, Tiny Muskens, wants people to start calling God Allah. He says the Netherlands should look to Indonesia, where the Christian churches already pray to Allah. It is also common in the Arab world: Christian and Muslim Arabs use the words God and Allah interchangeably.
Three days after the Memorial Day opening of Answers in Genesis’ $27 million Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky, a group called Creation Ministries International filed suit in the Supreme Court of Queensland.
Among other things, the suit claims the Kentucky group stole subscribers for its Answers magazine by claiming that the Australians’ Creation magazine was “no longer available.”
The suit is the most public move in what has been a growing rift between groups that are spreading the same Garden of Eden creation message on opposite sides of the globe.
The end of the article says that Wieland is suing Ham’s group as a last resort: “CMI was left with no choice but to sue.” “At the end of the day . . . there has to be right-doing,” he said. “Things can’t just be swept under the carpet.”
Really? Is that the only option left in a situation like this? Read 1 Corinthians 6:1–8:
1 When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? 2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! 4 So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? 5 I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, 6 but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? 7 To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!
Note especially the last two verses. It seems that Paul is saying that it is better to be defrauded and suffer wrong from a brother than to take matters before unbelievers. Not only can things just be swept under the carpet, they must be—if things cannot be settled outside of the courtroom.
Greenpeace (Wikipedia), the international environmental organization of Vancouver, is building a third (not second, as they claim)1 Noah’s Ark as part of an environmental campaign.
Environment watchdog Greenpeace is building a second vessel as a sign of hope and awareness. The vessel is being built with the intention of warning all world leaders and making them act to counter the approaching global threat of climate change.
According to the story, God observed man’s evil behavior and decided to flood the earth and destroy all life. “Today man is hurting the earth once again,” Greenpeace said in a press release on Monday and urged the world to fight against the seemingly doomed fate of our planet. To that end the organization will be building the second Noah’s Ark. The ship will be used in campaigns to create political awareness on climate change and global warming issues.
“Although we might not be the ones who made the first Great Flood, we will be the ones solely responsible for the disaster waiting ahead of us,” Greenpeace’s statement noted.
Bishop Martinus “Tiny” Muskens of Breda, Netherlands thinks so.
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