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Just keeping the household pure

Sometimes these "celebrities got witnessed to" stories are verifiably true and sometimes they're TWI Urban Legends (I knew a guy who was WOW with a guy who...) Skip Mesquite of Tower of Power was in Way Productions and toured & recorded with Joyful Noise & Takit, Garibaldi was in Takit too. TWI had a brochure come out in the early 80's that had some of the celebs in it; Donaldson (I saw him at a rodeo in Omaha once), Shoenheit and Tony Collins were in it (are you sure about Irving Fryer?). Hayes Gahagan was high profile in TWI for a few years and spoke at the ROA at least once. The rest? I'm not so sure. The only "famous" person that I am personally aware of that got witnessed to was Mike Johanns, recently the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture who was witnessed to in Lincoln about ten years ago when he was governer of Nebraska.

And apparently your opinion is that the moderator is lying.But that's just my opinion

Hockey player Jim Schoenfeldt of the Buffalo Sabres and later coach of the Washington Capitols (or was it the Jersey Devils? ) was involved briefly in the early 80's

The "apparent contradiction" in a subject like healing is a difference between theory and practice. In theory, God heals, doesn't want people sick, etc, yet in practice people get sick and die. Not just the ungodly, but folks who you would think God would go out of his way to heal. So people try to come up with a way to explain it all. Why do some people suffer, why do some people die young? People have to make sense of it all somehow. That's good thinking. :)

As of 2001 10 states did not have their own Limb Leader and were combined with other states that did.

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When we do our taxes next year, included in the deductions, exemptions etc will be a credit for (for most people) $600, ($1200 for married filing jointly) plus $300 for each child born after December 31st 1992. This is a credit that does not appear on previous year's taxes. When figuring what you owe for taxes, you will deduct the credit that you allowed from your tax liability. For example, if you owe $3500 in taxes, are married filing jointly with one qualifying child, you will deduct $1500, leaving you with a liability of $2000. Then, since you received $1500 this year, there'll be a line taking this into account, adding the $1500 back in, leaving your liability again at $3500. In effect, it's a wash for next year. But for accounting purposes, it's an advance on a credit on next year's taxes that you haven't gotten yet. It doesn't reduce your refund (if you get one) for next year. The only potential problem that I see is if the number of exemptions changes. In my case, I received $300 because I claimed my step-daughter in 2007. Do I have to give that $300 back next year because her biologiical dad will be claiming her in 2008? Or if you get divorced between now and tax time 2008. Does that change things?

I was kidding about the squinting :B) I taught myself to read the Hebrew alphabet years ago...a lot easier than Aramaic or Arabic in my opinion

Thanks for the reply. I wonder what Adam & Eve thought they were naming their son, breath of God or Empty of God? I can see the "El" at blue letter bible, but only in Hebrew letters, which I can read if I squint really hard :ph34r:

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Hmmm....hadn't thought of that. Makes sense in light of his trying to make things "fit", rather than let verses say what they're saying. This is obvious in his treatment of things like the nature of Jesus Christ. Verses are discarded, not because there is any real evidence that they are later additions or mistranslations, but because they don't fit with what he has already decided is the truth.

You say that like it's a bad thing

While I believe that stigmatizing single women with children is wrong, I also believe that a child does best with two parents. This is not to say that a child with only one parent is damaged goods in some way, or that there aren't some too parent families where the kids would be better off without one or the other (sometimes both) parents. Some of the hardest working, toughest women I know I single parents; my grandmother, who 30 years after her passing is still one of the people in life that I admire the most, was a single mother in the 30's and 40's.

You know, when I heard and read that quote by Wierwille I thought it made a lot of sense, and it did, if only he had actually done that. I started to scratch my head when I heard him say things like "we don't have a text that says such-and-such, but it's got to be there". Or when he claimed with all confidence that "in the original" the first word in the bible is "God", when any Hebrew bible has the first word as beresheeth, usually translated as "in the beginning", the second word as barah, normally translated as "created"; only when you get to the third word do you find elohim, God. In my opinion, overall, Wierwille (or whoever he stole them from ) had it right with the keys to understanding and/or researching the bible. But they became inconvenient when the "keys" revealed different answers than the ones he liked. In my estimation, it's Wierwille's shoddy research that makes what he taught suspect, rather than any other consideration.

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He posts here, but I won't give up his handle...in case anonymity is important...perhaps he'll see this

I thought that I was the only GSer in Nebraska <_<

I just looked up "Abel" on Blue Letter Bible and it gave the definitions of the name Abel as "breath" or "vapor" based on Strong's. What source gives it as "empty"?

Not at all Seth...thanks for letting us in