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Linda Z, I agree that terrible mistakes occurred there, and that they finally got caught. But instead of vanquishing them now, like what happened to Germany after WWI, I think we should take the higher road, like the course that was taken after WWII with Germany and Japan in rebuilding them. I am in communication with a very small number of innies who are trying to re-build from within. The loving thing for me to do is to help them with the love of God, and try to think the best of them, and not rub salt in their wounds by insisting on all sorts of immediate and public apologies and other types of further humiliations. As far as trust, I agree with you. Trust and respect must be earned, and the organization as a whole has too much inertia to trust it or anyone representing it as a whole. Individuals within that organization are in the process of earning my respect and limited trust, though. I think that's good news, and a step above blind good expectations. They have children and new people in their flock, and all our approaches to them must lovingly take this into account. I'll bet the innies know even better than we do how bad it all got, yet they have to shield their flock from discouragement. To the extent we let them know we will help them in this respect we can earn some trust from them. God does this for you and me. If He dealt with us and our sins with a vanquishing heart we'd never respond to Him. Instead He is gentle and does not deal with after our sins, but casts them as far as the east is from the west, and He remembers them no more. The has been enough humiliation on all sides, and someone has to initiate the peace process. We are in a position here to do that.
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Cherished Child, I try to speak up as much as possible, and expect changes for the best for people here at Greasespot, when I talk to them at TWI too. :)--> I see differing flaws on both sides of this equation, but I see great potential on both sides too. Remember how God forgave Judas and David, and ... you and me!
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sky4it, You wrote: "His statement "sincerity is no guarantee for truth" is just plain false and anti scriptural." Well, if you strip that statement of it's context like you did, then I'd agree it IS false and misleading. But Dr didn't just say it that way. Your memory is incomplete, and the TVT was incomplete on that point. Let's just see what Dr said in the class: "... This is why in any one person the possibility for truth and error is always there. You see if I rightly divide the Word of Truth on salvation we have the true Word. But if I wrongly divide it in the Holy Spirit field we have error. "Now naturally I'll be sincere in both fields this is why I said to you that sincerity is no guarantee for truth, absolutely not. Because sincerity is wonderful but you know it is just no guarantee for truth. Sincerity is a tremendous thing and you like to see people when they are sincere. And of course every time you look at a minister or someone like this you say we'll he's certainly a wonderful sincere person isn't he? That really doesn't cut any ice with me it's wonderful to be sincere but sincerity is no guarantee for truth." So, in the more complete picture, sincerity is good, but not good enough to rightly divide the Word all by itself. More than sincerity is needed. Remember, he says sincerity is good four times there, but you forgot and over-abbreviated what he said. Does this make you wonder how many other things you forgot or distorted in your memory from so long ago? It should. Come back to PFAL and get it right and get bless in the process.
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fortunateone, You wrote: "I liked PFAL except for the errors and bad jokes" I take it you mean the film class. What about the books, where the jokes are deleted?
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Vertical Limit, You wrote: "The first century people had more than you know. More then vp knew. More then you can grasp being limited to pfal (you aren't doing pfal anyway but your own version of it) and trying to make it work and give life." But without having mastered it, how can you claim to know this. You know TVT mostly. *** You wrote: "Maybe you should check out the schools of thought at the time of Jesus's life. What he learned as he was growing up. It was more then just learning the scriptures and the law." God deemed Jesus' youth mostly inconsequential, and that's why He didn't have that recorded in the scriptures. What He does have recorded is that Jesus was subject to his parents. In oriental customs that means he took up and studied the family business, and he studied the scriptures. What IS important is how just after his youth Jesus handled the counterfeit visions he had in the desert with his mastery of what was written in those scriptures. *** The manifestations of holy spirit are to build up. When tongues with interpretation or prophesy are properly operated in the church is built up much like words spoken from the flesh mind, except there is a supernatural edge to them. They are especially appropriate, more appropriate than the flesh mind could conjure. Speaking in tongues builds up the spirit in ways that fleshly mind exercises cannot. There's nothing wrong with the mind being built up by the proper exercises, but they don't built up the spirit.
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I disagree that those disputed sections are direct quotes. They are over-abreviations, and context wrenched. The line about "so that we may have access to his advanced abilities and approval" is a lie.
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Digest/Commentary re: propfal thread-Gen com.
Mike replied to WordWolf's topic in Doctrinal: Exploring the Bible
Tom Strange, You seem have very little willingness to debate these issues with me so you resort to vain repetitions. Allow me to engage you in a deeper way here. I will comment on every line of your paste job. *** ... ...Mike has stated that: PFAL is 'God's Word reissued'. Yes. That's my way of putting it, with the qualifier that it's the written form of PFAL, the book and magazine form, and that it is addressed to us grads. *** ... ...Mike has stated that this means we don't need any versions of the Bible anymore, only PFAL. Yes, but the "we" here is Older Leader Grads (OLGs) of PFAL who have already spend a lot of time with our KJVs, many other teachings, and field experience, and not enough time with PFAL. For OLGs without that background, this statement of yours, Tom, is false. Actually, we OLGs do most certainly need, not only the assumed background mentioned above, but we also need the many, many, many KJV verses quoted in the pages of PFAL. Without those those verses, and the knowledge of where they came from, then Tom, your statement is wrong. I might add here that an occasional reach for our KJVs for review, or context, or to follow up on a suggested reference in PFAL is certainly in order. For instance, in GMWD pages 91-92 contain a reference to Jeremiah 36: 23 and a summary paragraph of many KJV verses surrounding it. This is not a direct order to read those many verses, but I would take it as an essential suggestion. Once I've done that a few times, THEN I don't need to go there any more for a long while. In other words, my "Yes" to the above is so qualified, that I'd say, Tom, your line here is an extreme over-abbreviation. You do not do my message justice. TOM, YOU MISREPRESENT ME GREATLY. *** ... ...Mike has stated that PFAL is the word of God, Yes, but that's "Word" with a capital "W." *** ... ...that the Holy Spirit has provided us with His Word in written form in PFAL, and it (PFAL) carries all the authority of God Almighty. Again, that "us" is OLGs with tons of exposure to KJV and other learning as mentioned above. *** ... ...Mike has offered a 'Table of Challenge' (which he claims exposes things which some would prefer to keep hidden away)... ... So far so good. However this doesn't explain what that 'Table of Challenge' is, so it's poor writing on your part, Tom. Again, it's an over-abbreviation. TOM, YOU MISREPRESENT ME GREATLY. *** ... ... so that we may have access to his advanced abilities and approval. This line is complete hogwash! This either demonstrates a complete ignorance of what you write, Tom, or a deliberate attempt to smear me. I've written hundreds of lines on the 'Table of Challenge' and I dare you to produce the source of this, or I'll call it slander. Tom, I could challenge you to a debate, you and you alone, in real time to face my Table of Challenge. We could do it on a telephone with a tape recorder running. Or we could do it in any other way that would assure that you receive no outside help. You have not read anything at all about this topic and are ignorant of what it means. Before I do make this challenge, though, you must demonstrate to me that you did this out of ignorance, and not in a deliberate attempt to smear me, AND that you have gone back and educated yourself by re-reading at least some of what I have actually written on this topic. TOM, YOU MISREPRESENT ME GREATLY. *** ... ...Mike has stated that Christ is currently learning from PFAL and will be teaching from PFAL materials when he returns. This discounts the reality of Christ in me and Christ in any grad who comes back to PFAL and learns more deeply from it. TOM, YOU MISREPRESENT ME GREATLY. *** ... ...Mike has stated that betraying Dr's revelations is betraying God. Yes. But only for those revelations that are from the True God, i.e. the written forms of PFAL. Those revelations are of God and not of Dr. This would be true of betraying any true revelation to any human being. If I betray a revelation from the True God to Tom Strange, then I betray the True God. *** ... ...You just need to feed that Christ inside with the pure Word of PFAL. Yes, with the understanding that "You" is an OLG. *** ... ...Mike has stated that studying PFAL will defeat death. No. Study with the intent to MASTER the written PFAL will bring a student closer to that victory, though. That victory will soon be complete, because the master is at hand. All in all, Tom, you misrepresent me greatly. . . . -
Tom Strange, You seem have very little willingness to debate these issues with me so you resort to vain repetitions. Allow me to engage you in a deeper way here. I will comment on every line of your paste job. *** ... ...Mike has stated that: PFAL is 'God's Word reissued'. Yes. That's my way of putting it, with the qualifier that it's the written form of PFAL, the book and magazine form, and that it is addressed to us grads. *** ... ...Mike has stated that this means we don't need any versions of the Bible anymore, only PFAL. Yes, but the "we" here is Older Leader Grads (OLGs) of PFAL who have already spend a lot of time with our KJVs, many other teachings, and field experience, and not enough time with PFAL. For OLGs without that background, this statement of yours, Tom, is false. Actually, we OLGs do most certainly need, not only the assumed background mentioned above, but we also need the many, many, many KJV verses quoted in the pages of PFAL. Without those those verses, and the knowledge of where they came from, then Tom, your statement is wrong. I might add here that an occasional reach for our KJVs for review, or context, or to follow up on a suggested reference in PFAL is certainly in order. For instance, in GMWD pages 91-92 contain a reference to Jeremiah 36: 23 and a summary paragraph of many KJV verses surrounding it. This is not a direct order to read those many verses, but I would take it as an essential suggestion. Once I've done that a few times, THEN I don't need to go there any more for a long while. In other words, my "Yes" to the above is so qualified, that I'd say, Tom, your line here is an extreme over-abbreviation. You do not do my message justice. TOM, YOU MISREPRESENT ME GREATLY. *** ... ...Mike has stated that PFAL is the word of God, Yes, but that's "Word" with a capital "W." *** ... ...that the Holy Spirit has provided us with His Word in written form in PFAL, and it (PFAL) carries all the authority of God Almighty. Again, that "us" is OLGs with tons of exposure to KJV and other learning as mentioned above. *** ... ...Mike has offered a 'Table of Challenge' (which he claims exposes things which some would prefer to keep hidden away)... ... So far so good. However this doesn't explain what that 'Table of Challenge' is, so it's poor writing on your part, Tom. Again, it's an over-abbreviation. TOM, YOU MISREPRESENT ME GREATLY. *** ... ... so that we may have access to his advanced abilities and approval. This line is complete hogwash! This either demonstrates a complete ignorance of what you write, Tom, or a deliberate attempt to smear me. I've written hundreds of lines on the 'Table of Challenge' and I dare you to produce the source of this, or I'll call it slander. Tom, I could challenge you to a debate, you and you alone, in real time to face my Table of Challenge. We could do it on a telephone with a tape recorder running. Or we could do it in any other way that would assure that you receive no outside help. You have not read anything at all about this topic and are ignorant of what it means. Before I do make this challenge, though, you must demonstrate to me that you did this out of ignorance, and not in a deliberate attempt to smear me, AND that you have gone back and educated yourself by re-reading at least some of what I have actually written on this topic. TOM, YOU MISREPRESENT ME GREATLY. *** ... ...Mike has stated that Christ is currently learning from PFAL and will be teaching from PFAL materials when he returns. This discounts the reality of Christ in me and Christ in any grad who comes back to PFAL and learns more deeply from it. TOM, YOU MISREPRESENT ME GREATLY. *** ... ...Mike has stated that betraying Dr's revelations is betraying God. Yes. But only for those revelations that are from the True God, i.e. the written forms of PFAL. Those revelations are of God and not of Dr. This would be true of betraying any true revelation to any human being. If I betray a revelation from the True God to Tom Strange, then I betray the True God. *** ... ...You just need to feed that Christ inside with the pure Word of PFAL. Yes, with the understanding that "You" is an OLG. *** ... ...Mike has stated that studying PFAL will defeat death. No. Study with the intent to MASTER the written PFAL will bring a student closer to that victory, though. That victory will soon be complete, because the master is at hand. All in all, Tom, you misrepresent me greatly. . . .
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No hard feelings here, Song. :)--> Sorry if I egged you on. Please feel free to PT me anytime.
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yophoto, I've visited several times a day for almost a week now and I've noticed that what you say is accurate. I've noticed a steady evolution in the construction, with little tweaks here and there. I can readily imagine that construction takes time and that it progresses in stages. I'm confident that it is wise for you to take the same precautions on your site that Pawtucket has taken here. The Internet can be a very unfriendly place, and proper security in a discussion website is a time consuming and necessary task... and very technically demanding too! ******* dmiller, I'm with you, and a couple of weeks is easy for me to wait. Gads! I can blink and a couple of MONTHS can fly by. It's not like we paid for something and are being delayed in receiving what's ours. If we put ourselves in the shoes of TWI people trying to change things we can be patient. There is a steady, albeit slow, but still steady pace of changes we've been seeing for at least a year now. Who knows how many other internal changes are going on that we've not been able to see?
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Abigail, You wrote: "How does studying PFAL defeat death, Mike? We will all face death one day, unless the return comes first, no?" PFAL stands for ( and I'm sure you know, but it's worth spelling it out) Power for Abundant Living. Death is the opposite of living, it stops life. The power God wants us to have is the power to stop that which limits abundance of life. With all nine manifestations in operation in the Body of Christ death can be avoided, because it's always against God's will, and God will always supply the information and the power to defeat death. The reason we say we face death is because no one has taped into this power God supplies in Christ to it's fullest. It's been available in one sense, yet elusive for 2000 years. PFAL is God's move to remove that elusiveness through the most up front, all inclusive, yet simple teaching of how that power can be finally put into operation. The Return of Christ, I'm learning, is a multifaceted broad event, comprising of many mini "returns." When you, that is to say Christ in you, returns to this written teaching in the PFAL books he can then receive the nourishment needed to rise up and conquer death in your life. You can do this because the way God designed this set of events is there is now, for the first time in history, not only the teaching necessary, but also the community of other grads who can do it with you, with us, and together our believing can rise to that perfectly renewed mind. Where one grad fails, another can help lift him up, and he another in return. The teaching is all in place ready to be tapped into deeper than it was the first time around, the times are ripe politically with the freedom of religion and expression that now reigns like never before, the communication is all in place, the travel technology, the health technology to give us life spans that can reach long enough to learn enough to believe enough, etc. These are all things that the first century was lacking. They had a fading memory of the one man who went all the way with the believing and power. They had the difficulty of receiving the revelation of the Mystery counter to all tradition. They had limited life spans, travel, and communication. They had political repression. We have it all in place except for one thing: we have been temporarily talked out of using what we have. But that's changing. The time of our return to God's revelation is at hand. It's time to see Jesus Christ NOW, by becoming like him through this Word we've been given. When we return to PFAL we learn how to see him and his perfect example of perfect believing. The time for waiting passively for Christ's return is over. We can return to God and see NOW. The time to see death defeated has arrived. Who wants to be among the first to believe (act) and see? THAT's how studying PFAL will defeat death. *** You wrote: "Living in fear of the adversary limits God and closes our eyes to life, Mike. I don't 'close my eyes to the adversary', I simply don't fear him." I agree. Fearing the adversary is not what God teaches us. The context that I brought that up in was how God is limited at times by people's lack of detailed knowledge and inability to spot the adversary's influence. There is a conflict between Him and the adversary, but many will deny this as medieval superstition. The beginning of this context my remarks appeared in was how people OFTEN, even here, think that guidance by having holy spirit is cannot thwarted by counterfeit spirits. It's often put forth here that we can, by simple exercise of our will, tap in to pure direct spiritual guidance. It's good to know the adversary's methods, not to fear him, but have a healthy respect for how he thwarts our guidance. By paying close attention to what God provided in PFAL we can get that guidance, reject the false guidance, see Christ, become like him, do the things he did, and ultimately see death defeated. This is our power for abundant living. It's LIFE!
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laleo, We posted simultaneously, so I wanted to point out an additional post to you above. :)-->
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laleo, This just in: I looked and saw that socks mild attack was on the other thread, WW's mirror thread like this one. I can now see why my comment about him threw you a little. If his comment had occured right above your post, then my minimal response to him (within my response to you) would have been more appropriate. Still, please lighten up and relax. :)--> I have good news to share: the books are still what they used to be, a wonderfully positive view into the Father's heart which Jesus Christ perfectly reflected, and more.
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laleo, My you sure are the probing one. *** Do you have to say otherwise for me to comment? You may not have said it (what I negated in my comments) but you implied it quite loudly, IMO. If the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it. *** Oh, laleo, it was a MILD attack socks made, and I said that so that socks could see it, and that I brushed it off. I like him too. You are too serious. *** Quoting someone does not constitute worship, but when you said of socks "Whatever he said to you, you likely deserved it" it reminded me of how a Limb Leader would defend a Twig leader if I were to complain of the twig leaders mis-treatment, in that Limb leaders's worship of the Way tree perfection. Your unqualified support of socks resembled the unqualified support I saw vpw worshippers display in the past. When I see a red flag I never ignore it, and I SOMETIMES speak up to see how good my eyesight is. *** Instead of probing my flaws, look at your own, and see if you're not repeating past mistakes. I'd rather discuss the contents of the books than the contents of your heart or mine. Neither of us are qualified to be real psychologists, and I suspect Internet psychologists are even more suspect than radio ones. There has to be a much better communication, like in person and for a long time, before that kid of probing yu want to do with me is appropriate. It also helps to know God's Word very well.
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Unresolved pain does not automatically mean that a person's search for relief will be illegitimate. That CAN happen, but people with no pain can make wrong choices too. There's no guarantee that traditional pastoring is in line with the True God's healing plans. I choose, both for pain avoidance and for seeking God's pleasurable rewards, to persue the non-traditional plan He has made available. I try my best to put my ego aside and minister to needs as I see them. If I am in this for ego gratification, I don't receive it. Who is it here who slaps me on the back and strokes my ego? I get ego attacks here all the time. Socks is a nice guy, but when he is challenged more than he is accustomed to, his flesh can sin too. I see people here gravitate from one set of heros to worship (like vpw, lcm, some limb leader) to others, like socks, or BG Leonard, or Kenyon, of Bullinger, or Billy Graham... I can appreciate many people's good qualities, but I try to remember that cursed is the man who trusts in man. I did that too with vpw for those 27 years while many others were worshipping him, before I came back to PFAL. It's his writings that I see are bigger than him and that I fully embrace. VPW also thought that the written PFAL was bigger than him: he wished he was the man he knew to be.
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You wrote: "That's a big IF, Mike. Especially when one considers..." I fully realize that it's a big IF and have thought it through as best as I before placing my bet. I also fully realize that the alternative is a big bleak blank. It's either a set of PFAL texts on my Table of Challenge, or it's a pile of air, remembering that my challenge with that table is a standard that is unaltered and unedited in any way. And yes, I've fully considered the complications as you mentioned them. I've posted here several times that I had a full ten year head start in that area. I've brought into my considerations as much as I could find in the KJV about men of God who screwed up, and I've tried my best to turn a blind eye to most of what our culture's shifting sands of pop psychology has to say about things like that. *** You wrote, quoting me: "If he is not God's spokesman, then who is? the KJV translators and versionators? You? Do you take your word for it as you pick and choose among translations, versions, and as you pick various Bible scholars who help you with a difficult verse or two or a thousand?" Then you asked: "How about holy spirit?" What about unholy spirit? The counterfeit, by definition, looks very good to the untrained eye. Where do we get that training? PFAL! *** You wrote: "...it really makes little difference to me where the comma is placed. Its just a matter of living simply and kindly with healthy boundaries in place." I see what you are saying. Getting along with people is not the whole story though. It makes a huge difference how the details stack up if we want to correct this broken universe filled with sickness and death. How is getting along with people ever going to help defeat death? *** You wrote, again quoting me: "God can pretty well only draw these kinds of people." You then retorted with: "Gee, you sure do limit God." No, God limits Himself in some ways. He can't lie or break His own laws, like in areas where free will is involved. If people decide to not put God first, then the adversary, being the god who was given control of the senses realm, has a much better chance of deceptively convincing a person to resist God's drawing. Closing our eyes to the adversary will not limit his power. Jesus took him on full face and was the victor.
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def59, You wrote: "I think vpw was afraid we all would go out and really start looking at the scriptures and start coming up with different conclusions. That's why he started to the corps, to keep us all in line." I used to think that exact same thing too, and that's one of the BIG reasons I never went Corps. I did my best for 27 years (on and off) to check out the scriptures against his teaching. He seemed to pass all my tests...eventually. Before JCNG came out I had collected more scriptures to support Dr's thesis than are in that book. I eventualy dropped my suspicion of Dr having that fear as I met several brainy people who Dr refused to let in the Corps. After that I suspected that for SOME people Dr used the Corps to keep those people off the field and messing it up, at least for a while.
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Oops, Abigail, we're posting simultaneously. I haven't read your second post yet. And as usual, time is running short.
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Hello Abigail, My coat came back from the cleaners unscathed. (I hate it when that happens :D-->.) You wrote: "If you were to witness to someone who had never heard of TWI, VPW, or PFAL, would you take them to the PFAL book or the Bible?" In answer to your question, I show them what they can relate to, like a Gideon Bible. I think there is only one person these last 7 years who I tried to skip around and get straight to PFAL with. There may have been another, but I forget. I would LIKE to be able to do it the faster way, but few can handle it. Few GRADS can handle it.
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laleo, No. I was saying that if I had written PFAL (not by inspiration but by myself) and then came here promoting it as intensely as I do (which socks so condescendingly and mockingly disapproves of), THEN you might have a point that I'm self promoting. The reason I cite PFAL references is because I want you and others to know that I am NOT re-writing it. I want you to see other gems in there as you check out my accuracy and therefore you can get blessed again. I knew several people who took the class long ago to prove it wrong, and ended up getting blessed. It's not about me. I pay a price of degrading my reputation among the many here to bless the few who do take the time check it out in PFAL. I cite PFAL to help teach it better. Ac
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Digest/Commentary re: propfal thread-Gen com.
Mike replied to WordWolf's topic in Doctrinal: Exploring the Bible
def59, You wrote: "But you don't need the power of nine, Just the One." Yes, I agree. This One does supply us with the power to operate the "all nine" (plural). This One True God wants us to use what He has made available.... and so does His Son, who mastered the "all seven" that were available to him at that time. Those two worked hard to make all nine available to us to use in helping others. *** You wrote: " But we are to be honest, so no one can make false accusations against us." Yes. I agree. Have you ever wondered about Joshua and the other spies Moses sent behind enemy lines? I always wondered if they lied about their identities. How about our dads and grandfathers who fought in WWII? Do you suppose that in addition to their killing other Christian Germans, they might have lied to them too in undercover situations? Which would have been worse shooting a bullet at them or shooting a lie at them? I don't want to get bogged down in ethics discussions, so let's not go there, another waste of precious PFAL mastery time. OK? I just wanted to mention these things for pondering, or other thread ideas for other people. *** You wrote: "Telling others about Christ supercedes human law." Yes it does, but it doesn't violate human legislated law in the same way that Peter and John did in Acts 4&5 as I quoted earlier for WW. Ditto for Brother Andrew as he smuggled Bible (versions) behind the Iron Curtain. *** You wrote: "Telling people you wrote stuff that was actually done by others is lying." Have you YET read my post to Oakspear where I quoted the film class where Dr indicated that God's teaching was deeper than mere dictation? Can you find a single place (besides untrustworthy memory) where Dr said he originated the words that he wrote? He taught that there WAS no original thought in the AC. Did you read THAT recent post of mine? If Dr was lying, then tell me why he felt so free to OFTEN cite his sources. Can you answer that? Did you not followup on all Dr's citations just like you seem to failing to follow up on what has been posted here? -
Digest/Commentary re: propfal thread-Gen com.
Mike replied to WordWolf's topic in Doctrinal: Exploring the Bible
socks, You wrote: "copyright law goes back to the 1790's in the U.S." Yes, it was a hot idea with all the intelligencia back then and a little earlier who, for the first time, were able to be routinely rewarded with common people's cash for their writing. (This my personal opinion.) The idea was so hot it was written into the U.S. Constitution. (This is according my feeble memory and precious little time to Google right now.) -
Digest/Commentary re: propfal thread-Gen com.
Mike replied to WordWolf's topic in Doctrinal: Exploring the Bible
WordWolf, I went back to your post. The windows can wait another half hour. You asked me: [Where do you get your impression that the laws of the world, the letter and intent of the laws, are to be disregarded by Christians. "Submit yourself to every ordnance of man for man's sake.." ] I see from two verses in Acts (4:19 and 5:29) that there CAN be times where God's higher court overrules man's lower courts. Acts 4:18-19 "And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye." Acts 5:27-29 "And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men." When juggling the two scripturally demanded loyalties, to ordinances of God and men, I remember "If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men." If it's not possible, I obey God above men. -
Digest/Commentary re: propfal thread-Gen com.
Mike replied to WordWolf's topic in Doctrinal: Exploring the Bible
def59, I agree with most all of what you say here, and all my answers to your questions (I think) will be the ones you'd like to see. We can go into my answers in detail over on my thread, and when I have more time. I will add to your post, though, that some of us still feel called to do all the things that Jesus did, and hence the search for the power of "all nine" to serve others with. This is why I persue more than your post urges. -
Digest/Commentary re: propfal thread-Gen com.
Mike replied to WordWolf's topic in Doctrinal: Exploring the Bible
I like throwing you a bone from time to time. ;)-->