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Ha! If you're ok with the passive voice, I am, too. Yeah, it was ok as it was - just putting a finer point on a fine point.

*is This is the bruise on the fruit telling you that it's rotten to the core. Do not underestimate this bruise. The one who claims to HAVE the Truth surely is the one who does not. When defending victor's hubris, Mike said: if one can jump over a barn, is it bragging to say so? No. But who can jump over a barn? No one can. So, what does it say about the one making the claim? Everything you should need to know.

True that! and in a similar vein...and maybe I’m being picayune…but it seems to me there’s an unintended allusion to the Trinity in item # 2, with Holy Spirit being capitalized. But if memory serves, wierwille taught that Holy Spirit (with capitals) referred to God whereas as holy spirit (lower case h and s - as in item # 9 ) referred to what’s in born-again believers: 2. We believe in one God, the Creator of the heavens and earth; in Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, our lord and savior, whom God raised from the dead; and we believe in the workings of the Holy Spirit. 9. We believe in the receiving of the fullness of the holy spirit, the power from on high, and the corresponding nine manifestations of the holy spirit for all born-again believers. From: The Way org: statement of beliefs ~ ~ ~ ~ Of course, as a disenchanted cult-follower I could also see item 2 as TWI’s typical sneaky misrepresentation of something. A Trinitarian reading item # 2 might understand that to mean TWI believes in the Trinity…until they happen to look at the bookstore and see wierwille’s Jesus Christ is Not God book…Doctrine-and-practice-wise I don’t think there’s an issue when one is a true follower of Jesus Christ – whether Jesus Christ is or not - he’s still Lord - so what’s the problem? Why do I say TWI’s typical sneaky misrepresentation of something? Because that is their standard of deception to rope you in. Like them saying the Way Corps Rome City campus was an accredited college. Well, it wasn’t! Of course I didn’t find out until after I attended it for 2 years and they had taken 2 years out of my life that I will never get back as well as the money from my sponsors. So, sometimes the deception is pulled off by what they don't say...and sometimes they just flat out lie !

With twi, it's always what they DON'T say that carries all the real information. IIRC, they've never mentioned the mandatory tithes of 10% or more, or how BLIND obedience to the people at the top is mandatory as well.

What's missing? "We believe salvation is by grace and not by works." Nor is salvation achieved by slavish follow-the-TWI leader.