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Well, this was years ago, now, but I had a little barbecue, and held a little ceremony; I burned my Corps diary and my Corps sweats on the barby, and was never going back. I boxed up all of my Way books, and gave them to someone who still gave a mouse's butt about them. I went back to college, made Townie friends, and got on with my life. I always felt that I'd gotten into the ministry for the right reasons, and I also feel that I got out of it for the right reasons: in both cases, I was honestly trying to do the right thing. I don't feel that I moved away from God when I left TWI; I feel very deeply that TWI moved away from God. God has very generously protected me, with both His grace and His mercy, during these past 24 years. He has established to me, in no uncertain terms, that leaving The Way International was His will for my life.

It COULD be. It could ALSO be that these aspect of the Synoptic Gospels are historically accurate. Just because other people lie about their golf game doesn't mean YOU lie about YOUR golf game. Then it goes to evidence. The people who wrote these things, reported these things were willing to put the remainder of their lives in jeopardy, and many of the early disciples were killed in horrific executions. They went to slow, painful deaths rather than say "I lied." Personally, I suspect they had supremely strong convictions that what they reported was all correct- for there is little that a man would sacrifice his life for- except the salvation OF that life. How did you get from "is it POSSIBLE that wasn't true?" to "ADMIT it was NOT true?" with no intermediary steps? Looks like a leap of non-faith. It's not intellectually honest. A good walk of faith doesn't insist that one call truth a lie, nor insist that one call lies the truth. Those who would, they're not intellectually honest, and poor witnesses to their faith. Who would want to join them? And you STILL made another leap. You've decided unilaterally to disbelieve parts of the Bible, and call them fables. Then you've decided unilaterally that to skip a process of inquiry to get to that conclusion (working it out to see if the evidence really, really supports your leap of non-faith) is "intellectually honest"-when it's the opposite. Then you decided that those who disagree with you are "soft-headed. What's next- a non-miraculous snowstorm and a new class you're teaching for pay? Depends on if there actually ARE 'legendary portions' like you decided all by yourself. Looks like you've not only declared some Scripture is "legendary" (fiction, lies, myths, cunningly-devised fables), and that your dissenters are "soft-headed", but you even worked out exactly how God wants you to read them. You're a regular one-stop-shop for another(heteros) gospel, aren't you? If it was all about powerful messages of compassion, tolerance, and so on, then why adulterate it with cunningly-devised fables? Hey, if your Christian walk is so scrawny that you've never seen a divine healing, never gotten divine revelation, never seen a miracle, that's your business. Those of us who HAVE seen some are a bit harder to convince that God's people thousands of years ago never saw them. "Do not pass Go. Do not collect 10% of my income."

I don't often check my account setting here but today I did and noticed that two people have voted my post down. Why didn't they just spit in my face? A man profiteth little in his own country. I like conversing here and I even love my enemies... but again I think it is caused by the male dominated, hate the gay guy homophobia, that caused me to reject "the way" in the first place. I guess these homophobes expect me to just believe everything they say while they claim to deny blind faith. I have close to twenty thousand friends on other forums, and a group I created myself with eight thousand loving members from nearly every country in the world.... And they added themselves as friends AND joined my group... I think I know who voted me down too, but I refuse to think evil or retaliate in the same petty way.... I am a better man. I know my ideas are often fanciful, sometime unorthodox and even bordering on heretical but I am not vindictive, just sometimes verbally opinionated. I posted this in the doctrinal topic because that is the subject I usually post in anyway. If anyone cares about me even as just a human being please try and reverse these attacks on my character and vote me up to at least zero. I don't want to leave this world hated...

Hang in there, Doc. It really doesn't mean anything of any consequence. Speaking for myself, I hope you continue to post. I promise to read them all.

Hello Dr. Soul Searcher, I must say, I am not above being juvenile sometimes :).... I have run around the political forums before....undoing Sunesis negatives....and I don't even agree with her politics! I usually undo Love Matters or Rocky's negatives as well. I usually agree with them both politically. If I think a remark is particularly nasty.....or there is a one word answer with a gratuitous green mark...I may undo it. . . .but I have not given very many negatives that stand alone. I have accidentally marked my own post down before. . . . seriously....a couple weeks ago. This morning I undid another on Mstar's music post???? I used to un-negative Shellon's when someone ALWAYS marked hers down. She is a doll and full of some sound wisdom. So, I do use it.....but, I like the idea of stating a reason. Sounds good. I am game. Okay...Dr. WW had six green I gave him one this morning....now he is down to 4?

Those red/green buttons that vote your post up or down? Wow! Like they determine who and what you really are? The people who know you better won't give a ratz pizzazz about some insignificant pair of clickable buttons, and the people who don't know you won't care either. So welcome to the Greasespot, where the women are tuff, the men have hairy armp**s, and the moderator is cool n' groovy.