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The Bible Talks are our main weekly meetings. They take place every semester week, Wednesdays 12:00pm in Room GP2-31 at Mawson Lakes.
The Lunch Meetings are fairly casual. Its a great place to catch up and get to know people over a meal. From time to time we will provide a cooked lunch for a gold coin donation, other times you can bring you own. At about 12:25 there will be announcements, then our speaker will lead us in a discussion of a Biblical/Theological theme.
Everyone is welcome. The talks are free and you do not need to be a member to come along.
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While ESers are always trying to make Jesus known to their friends and peers at Uni mission week is a time when we really try to engage the entire campus with the message of Jesus.
In 2010 we'll be posing the question, "If I could prove to you that God exists, would you want me to?
It’s a hypothetical question. Of course we can’t prove that God exists using any kind of empirical method. But if we could, would you want us to? What would it mean if there was a God? How would it affect the way you think, act and relate to other people? Is it better not to know?
The claim of Christians for nearly 2000 years has been that God has made himself known once and for all through his son Jesus Christ, and that he continues to speak to people today through the message about his son that we call the “Gospel”.
During week 4 students at the Magill and Mawson Lakes campuses we’ll be presenting this “Gospel” for anyone who’s interested. So the question remains – do you want to know, or is ignorance bliss?
Stay tuned for program details.
In 2009 our theme was "If you could ask God just one question what would it be". We surveyed students on campus with that question and then our guest speaker Andrew Klynsmith addressed the top three responses. Those talks were recorded and are available at the bottom of this page to listen to.
If you'd like to see all of the questions we received during our surveying click "next" below.
repeat questions not listed
- why pray?
- Why humans? Why does God to an extent favor humans to animals. Sure He might be with them, in their own world, but why did God choose humans to be the one that He saves? and why does he allow us to have power over them (ie eat them)?
- what happens to the people who do not have the opportunity to hear about Him. Do they automatically get into heaven, because they havnt had the opportunity to turn away, even if they were mean. Or are they put into hell
- is it more important to meet people's physical needs (health for the poor) or spiritual needs (bring them to christ first)
- why, oh God, oh God, why did you make homosexuality a sin?
- How could Lucifer possible be able to fall? as he was dwelling in the presence of the God, and in God radiances and beauty, how could he possible every manage to turn his eyes away from God and look upon himself to be able to start to become proud to then be able to say I wants to be or be like God. How could the highest or one of the highest angelical beings, whom was created by God be able to fall. And why did one third of the the rest of the heavenly beings also follow him?
- Also how come then when he become evil why was he not destroyed by just being in presence of God Holiness, before being cast out of heaven. Or when he goes back into the presence of God in the book of Job
- What happens tobabieswhen they die?
- Can you lose your salvation?
- DO you love me?
- I think I'd ask God about the lack of justice/fairness in the world. Why do some people suffer disproportionately?
- Why is there no peace?
- Why does Santa hate Jewish kids?
- Are you male or female?
- Why don't you act when there's injustice in the world?
- What's next week's powerball numbers?
- Why do bad things happen in the world?
- Why did you make everyone so different?
- Is the Bible still releavnt today?
- What do you do if you have doubts in your own religion?
- Do you exist?
- Why do people get unexplained illnesses?
- Where are you if you exist?
- Why do people die young?
- Why do good people get cancer?
- Could Jesus heat a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?
- Have I been good enough to go to heaven?
- Why is it so hard for girls to go through periods?
- Why is there so much bad in the world?
- Do you believe what the church is teaching?
- Why was everything created as it is?
- Why are people like they are?
- Why are we here?
- What is the meaning of life?
- How was earth created?
- What was earth like before people?
- Why?
- Do you have a plan for all of us and can we change that plan?
- What's heaven like?
- What happens after you die?
- Can world peace be acheived?
- Who made the dinosaurs?
- When will I die and how can I avoid it?
- Why don't we know the future?
- Why are cigarettes so good if they're going to kill you?
- Why do choose to give some people more food than others?
- Am I living life the way you intended me to?
- If we have a soul and we have a brain transplant, what happens to your soul? Are we the same person?
- Am I going to live a fruitful life?
- Am I going to get married?
- Why do guys have nipples?
- Why is church basketball so rough?
- Are humans a social experiment? Has he got it right?
- Does he really get upset when people take his name in vain?
- Does God know our path in life? If so, does that take away free will?
- How can you claim to be omnibenevolent when there is so much suffering in the world?
- Where\'s the beef?
- I would ask what the meaning of life the universe and everything is. And the answer better not be 42.
- What would you do if you got to spend the day on earth as a regular person?
- Why is is that relationships between men and women are particularly strained?
- Who am I meant to be with?
- Where do dinosaurs fit into creation?
- What is God’s ethnicity?
- Why are there so many religious wars?
- Which God is the right one or are they all the same but just being called by a different name?
- Why do so many horrible things happen to children?
- Who do you like more…people who believe in other religions or people who don’t believe in anything at all?
- What is perfection?
- Is it fate or is it choice?
- Why is there so much famine in Africa?
- What is the log in domain for the uni laptop system?
- Why do people kill/molest children?
- Why if Jesus says to love does that love exclude certain people? Why does the church exclude certain people?
- Is there heaven/hell?
- Why are you born if you’re just going to die?
- Why do religions seem so similar in beliefs?
- What were you thinking when you created Osama Bin Laden?
- Who came first the chicken or the egg?
- What is your opinion on same sex marriages?
- What denomination is the ‘real’ Christianity?
- Is God disappointed with mankind?
- Why are there diseases and disabilities when we are made in his image?
- why don't your either prove your existence or allow science to prove your existence?
- how can science test the validity of your existence, if your are not supernatural?
- When is Jesus coming back?
- Why do humans need to be different?
- Why don't you appear to us?
- Why didyou create everything?
- Why did my son's hermit crab die this morning?
- Why is everyone so evil?
- Where do we go from here?
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