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Despite Canadian pride in our peacefulness, according to the UN international comparisons, Canada has a rate of police-reported criminal incidents among the highest in the world - almost double that of the United States. Furthermore, our failure to punish incorrigible violent offenders and murderers with the biblically-required death penalty (Gen. 9:5-6; Num. 35:16; Deut.21:18-21), in the name of 'rehabilitation' and an enlightened 'humaneness' has led to rampant evil.Mission of God, 345
Ernest Howse, the church's moderator 1964-66, was surprised at the public controversy that followed his announcement, during an Easter interview, that he did not believe in the physical resurrection of Jesus. He considered his statement to be "about as radical as an affirmation that the world is round," and shrugged off the vituperative criticism.The United Church of Canada, 107
After decades of anti-Roman Catholic pamphleteering, the United Church at the 1964 General Council was able to send magnanimous "Christian greetings to the third session of the Vatican Council," and United Church clergy began participating in the celebration of "mixed" marriages with Roman Catholic priests.The United Church of Canada, 104
Hord and those with whom he worked were not the church's ultimate decision-makers, and not necessarily representative of the church's average pew-sitters. Yet ordinary church members helped put them there; they financially supported their work, and purchased their publications. As one observer puts it, "A large percentage of the church didn't agree with these positions, but they did consent to them." These leaders, then, embodied something of the face of the collective United Church wished to show the world in the 1960s: Christians who sought cultural relevance and were eager to participate in progressive change.The United Church of Canada, 101
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In mid-nineteenth century Protestant Ontario, millenarianism raised its head again in the form of the exported Irvingite movement (named after the English millenial preacher Edward Irving) and in the even more disruptive Millerites -followers of the converted American deist William Miller (by this point a Baptist), whose detailed calculations from biblical prophecy had him predicting the end of the world in the years 1843 or 1844, followed by a literal millennial (that is, thousand-year) reign. This eventually led to the founding of the Seventh Day Adventist church. This was quickly followed in the 1860s by the dispensationalist millennial crusade of J.N. Darby and C.I. Schofield, a movement emerging from the Plymouth Brethren in EnglandMission of God, 85
for much of Canada, hopes of a great Christian dominion developing across the North through the spread of the gospel were nurtured, as revealed by the founding text of the Canadian Dominion (Psalm 72:8). On Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the Parliament Buildings remain testament to this Christian vision, most notably, the Peace Tower and the Memorial Chamber, where Scripture is engraved everywhere, inside and out.Mission of God, 87
in 1966, for the first time in its history, The United Church of Canada saw a 2,000-member drop in its membership (to 1,062,000), the start of a decline from which it has never recovered.The United Church of Canada, 98
Four doctrinal omissions drew criticism from some prominent Presbyterians, fearful the new church would lose its way. First, the creed dropped the all-important statement affirming the Holy Scriptures "as the Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and life."The United Church of Canada, 18-19
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