User:Arcan
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[edit] Basics
- 20
- Australian
- Born 1985 and raised in Melbourne, Australia
- Undergrad studying International Politics, Linguistics, French
- Christian
[edit] Grace, love, reason, truth and heart
Authentic Biblical Christianity is the only belief system, faith, worldview and lifestyle that offers these which matter most; see
- "What's so amazing about Grace?" by Phillip Yancey
- "The Sacred Romance", "The Journey of Desire", "Wild at Heart", "Waking the Dead" by John Eldredge and "Captivating" by John and Stasi Eldredge http://www.ransomedheart.com
- "The purpose driven life" by Rick Warren
[edit] About me
I scored smack dab in the middle on the political compass! http://www.politicalcompass.org
Economic Left/Right: -0.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.36
I might be described as Right wing Authoritarian and Conservative by the Political, theological and philosophic Liberals, Socialists and postmodernists BUT Left wing Libertarian and Liberal by the Right wing eg political, theological and philosophic Conservatives the Christian Right ... etc
[edit] I speak
- Fluent Australian English in the Melbourne dialect
- Intermediate French
- Basic Spanish
- Simple Italian, German, Mandarin
- Can read and write the Russian and Greek alphabets
[edit] I support
- Warm evangelicalism, Protestantism, Reformed theology, Calvinism, Presbyterianism Covenant theology
- People from other Christian denominations and back grounds which are different to mine in theory and practice but yet are still committed to central tenets of orthodox Christianity such as Biblical inerrancy, Salvation by Grace through Faith, Trinitarian monotheism, recognition of Jesus as God, Creator and King and non-compromising kinds of ecumenism (See evangelicals from churches and groups like low church Anglicanism, Baptists, Wesleyan Methodists, Lutherans, Bretheren church, Pentecostal, Congregationalists, 'Non-denominational churches', Independent churches, Uniting church, Salvation army, House churches etc...)
- Partial Preterism, Amillennial Postmillennialism (that is Pietististic or Revivalist Postmillennialism NOT Dominionist or Theonomic Reconstructionist Postmillennialism)
- Young earth creationism http://www.answersingenesis.org
- Biblical inerrancy and infallibility, Biblical hermeneutics, Grammatical-historical hermeneutics, Biblical exegesis
- Neo-classical Realism but with Christian morality introduced
- Worldview contrasts and discussion in comparative religion http://www.summit.org, Epistemology and Ontology / Metaphysics as applied to defense of orthodox Christianity, First principles, Laws of thought, Law of non-contradiction, Norman Geisler see his Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics
- Separation of Church and State
- Adam Smith's Classical Stewardship Capitalism based on renewable resources (as opposed to modern greed-based Capitalism based on a scarecity mentality of the world's resources)
- Human rights like Free speech, Freedom of religion, Freedom of assembly, Speed reading
- Postcolonialism
[edit] I disagree with but partly appreciate in some ways
- Charismatics and Pentecostalism
- Postmodern Christianity and the Emergent church
- Roman Catholicism and the Eastern Orthodox Church
- The Clash of Civilizations
- Morality systems of Non-Christian religions
- Jean Jacques Rousseau's Noble savage
- Liberalism (both in theology and domestic and international politics)
[edit] I condemn
- Fundamentalism as well as Church Religiousity and Churchianity, Hyper-Calvinism, Eschatological Futurism and Historicism, Full Preterism, Dispensationalism; both Christian Zionism AND Antisemitism
- Islamism, Zionism, Theocracy
- Postmodernism, Religious pluralism, Politically correct Tolerance
- Orientalism
- Hatred, especially of those claiming to be Christians and hating people such as people associated with Abortion and Homosexuality (even though I still condemn the practices themselves)
- Not knowing why you believe what you believe eg when Christianity becomes Dogmatic, and the same in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Secular Atheism, Postmodernism and Marxism, The New Age movement
- Materialism, Hedonism, hyper-Romanticism in dating and courtship and social living
- Darwinian Evolution, Theistic Evolution, Gap theory
- Stem cell research, Gay marriage - because every child deserves both a mother and a father
- Dependence on crude oil from the Middle East - for reasons of geopolitical stability, economic and environmental sustainability, alternative energy sourcing, and technological development, Fractional reserve banking and floating currency exchange rate from attachment to a natural resource like gold and other things like land, agriculture, mining, oil production.
[edit] I like
- Cooking
- Soccer
- Socialising
- Cultures and languages
- History
[edit] The Future
I want to be (a):
- secondary school teacher
- linguist
- writer
- musician
- poet
- film maker ...
