Dear El Raton de los Datos,

Your self-confessed Calvinistic bias puts you at a serious disadvantage here. Social Justice is, predominantly, a Hebraic concept: the Greek formulations of the Judaeo-Christian faith (we call them creeds) don't mention it ('cos they were put together by Pharisees, ancient and modern)...

Now, some more homework: visit http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/9010.htm to look at the Lausanne Covenant. Then do a keyword search on justice on our website. Read particularly the article Was Jesus a Christian? (http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/2902.htm ) and the two on Social Justice http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/579.htm and http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/11538.htm and then report back.

Always be cognizant of the reality that it's possible to be highly intelligent and doctrinally orthodox and yet miss the whole point (see Matthew 23:23, Luke 11:42).

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The DataRat <> wrote in message . >

>

> "Why are you so interested in the

> ministries of justice I'm engaged in?"

>

>

>

> El Raton de los Datos has a broad

> interest in religious and theological

> topics.

>

> Frankly, Mr. Croucher, your favorite

> rodent visited your web site, and wasn't

> able to discern your doctrinal distinctives.

>

> He did a web search on your reference

> to "Lausanne Evangelical thinking", and

> found nothing except an article you

> published, and that didn't provide any

> details.

>

> Thought that your avowed "ministry of

> justice" might provide some clue as to

> the specifics of your belief.

>

> The Statement of Beliefs you published

> here in the newsgroups sounded ok, but

> also very generic. Guess that ...had you

> not mentioned the "Lausanne" thing,

> though... Bro. Rat wouldn't have given

> it a second thought.

>

> The "ministry of justice" was also

> intriguing. El Raton is unfamiliar with

> the concept (at least by that name).

>

> If you can see your way clear to

> elaborating on both "Lausanne Evangelical

> thinking" and the "ministry of justice",

> the Calvinist Rodent would be very

> interested.

>

>

> The DataRat