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My passport is dated to expire six days after I arrive home. Can I fly on my valid, but "almost expired" passport. It's an Australian passport and I am flying one-way to Australia.

My passport is dated to expire six days after I arrive home. Can I fly on my valid, but "almost expired" passport. It's an Australian passport and I am flying one-way to Australia.

Two options appear to have been put forward:

1. He was the pre-incarnate Christ, a sort of avatar of God The Son two millennia before he came (again?) as Jesus.

2. He was a symbolic representation of the Christ to come, but not actually "The Word before Immanuel."

I've read Genesis 14 and Hebrews 5, and heard a few messages on him (usually associated with tithing); but I'm still not sure whether Christianity does multiple avatars of God. (He's not Krishna.)

What do you think?

(Oh, and this isn't homework or any assignment, I'd just be interested to know what you all think...if anything. Ta very much.)

:-)

There was a question on here a year ago about Christian views, and the answers seemed to be that none of them had read it.

So what does everyone else think?

Christians can answer too, if you have an answer. I'm up to chapter three and it's heavy going but worth the effort.

Another book question from me, but I have finished reading this one. This book is about "rethinking intimacy, community and small groups" and it has certainly answered some of my puzzles on why things worked out the way they did in my teens and twenties in church.

Have you read it? What did you think?

I have been reading "The Twilight Of Atheism: The Rise And Fall Of Disbelief In The Modern World" by Alister McGrath. Has anyone else read it? What did you think?

I was recently reading "London", a Edward Ruthurfurd novel, where a Quaker family with a bunch of daughters named the girls Faith, Hope, Charity, Patience, and Perseverance before finally having a son who they named "O Be Joyful".

With all respect to those who name their children with adjectives as Given Names, what word would you choose to have as your name?

I have always been facinated by this song...is it really about what I think it is?

(Taniwha is waiting just below the surface so bright...)

Just in case you forgot

http://www.kovideo.net/lyrics/s/Split-Enz/Dirty-Cr...

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=-686Cuz5Tnw

...but I never finished it. Have any of you got to the end of the book? Was it worth the effort?

I belong to a relatively (to the neighbours) large church in the centre of my capital city: a church full of young, attractive, and successful people. I have been asked by some to defend my church against "the prosperity gospel" but I don't know what other people mean by that.

I know what I mean by each of those words, but I wonder if there is jargon that "prosperity gospel" as a phrase might mean to the people who use it. What do you think that phrase means?

What do you think about a church that is "prosperous" by your definition? (And is "prosperous" just about the cashflow?)

I'm just looking for different opinions of the phrase as I'm not sure what I'm actually being asked to defend against.

:-)

I bought this book in Hobart, my home town, in 1996. It is the first edition Penguin paperback. I read it every year in September to remind me of Hobart, (which I left in 1997), and just because I love the story.

Are there books like that in your life?