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For yea verily. The concrete bookcase is as light as a cannon. Thus saith the spirits. (Are they friendly spirits?)

1.I think Mike is mistaken. OldSkool and Charity are talking about how the actual written text was preserved. On the NT Canon thread Mike had a difference of opinion on how the NT Scriptures were canonized. Two different topics – Grease Spotters can go to New Testament Canon (greasespotcafe.com) to see the difference. No need to go into the details here – except to say Mike belittled the scholarly process (here’s one explanation = New Testament canon ), Mike referred to that as a ‘top-down approach’ ; Mike dubbed his own questionable method a ‘bottoms up approach’, but his overly simplistic technique merely amounted to Mike’s inane attempt at literary structure and an unhealthy paranoia of the devil…some Mike misfires on NT canon thread: here , here , and here . 2.If Mike’s statement hits you as coming from out in left field, that’s because it is! Charity, OldSkool and the NT Canon thread touch on the necessity and benefits of textual research – to preserve the written Word of God. It does not address the formulation of doctrine – that’s reserved for other scholarly disciplines like systematic theology and biblical theology. Mike has attempted to compare apples to unicorns. Mike refers to Jeremiah 36 NIV which is a thrilling record of God “re-issuing” certain Scripture that was destroyed besides adding to it…but then he makes a PFALudicrous Type of Leap in Logic to make an incoherent comparison of preserving the Written Word of God with formulating doctrine, i.e., Martin Luther’s teaching of salvation as the free gift of God's grace through the believer's faith in Jesus Christ. The analogy falls flat for several reasons. Jeremiah 36 states it was Jehoiakim who burned Jeremiah’s scroll. Mike’s remarks seem to be infused with wierwille’s Advanced Class demonology (I tend to think the only reason wierwille knew anything about the devil was because he lived like one). Mike in his usually biased commentary seems always overly zealous to give the devil far more credit than he deserves while at the same time marginalizing God Almighty. There is nothing comparable to God ‘reissuing’ Scripture – in effect preserving it in Jeremiah 36 and Martin Luther challenging the authority and office of the pope… ...Knowing wierwille and Mike’s animosity toward the Roman Catholic church I can’t help but think this is another one of Mike’s not-so-subtle allusion to the ‘greatness’ of wierwille’s ministry – the consummate hypocrite who bragged about cheap grace of Romans 10: 9 & 10 and the freedom we have in Christ but secretly he was a law unto himself totally independent of the Lord Jesus Christ – he was an unabashed plagiarist, pathological liar, money grubbing thief, megalomaniac, delusional, malignant narcissist, drunkard and a sexual predator… ...and mind you we're not talking about one-time sins – wierwille was a repeat offender having several sinful ‘careers’ - - sorry to inform big wierwille fans but he proved by the way he lived, he was unrepentant and maybe you’ll make the correlation with the rest of Matthew 3:8: Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God… Matthew 3:8 NLT

Yep. Same thing in FellowLaborers. People on the outside who were under the impression these programs were organic or spontaneous have no concept of how well it was all scripted.