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Numbers in Scripture (Bullinger)

Competent to Counsel (Jay Adams)

The Challenging Counterfeit Babylon Mystery Religion The Thirteenth Tribe None Dare Call It Conspiracy Dale Carnegie Books The Myth of the Six Million The Way Living in Love

One really simple way of shedding the group and the waybrain is to do without it for a month! Remember what VPW said in PFAL... take a month and shed the world and exclusively delve into the PFAL materials? So try the reverse and see what happens.. Surprise surprise.

Prayers

Catholics believe in a concept called "the community of saints." One example of this in operation is prayers for souls in purgatory for the purpose of releasing them -- it's said that God releases souls from purgatory into heaven this way. Don't ask me if or how this happens, have no idea and am still somewhat of a sceptic although I do pray St. Gertrude's prayer anyway. Regarding Jesus' return, does God respond to believers collectively praying for Christ's return? Scripture says we don't know the time, but does it say that believers have nothing whatever to do with helping make it happen? ("Thy Kingdom Come....") Then there are the 'preterists' who believe it already happened!

Hi Penworks, thx for that! I know of one other interpretation by TWI that was posted on GS once, from Free Spirit Magazine arguing against late-term abortion written by D. Craley that if the baby can live by itself outside the womb, it's presumed to have its own soul and shouldn't be aborted. I think the piece was from the 80s. But that quote from 1971 is amazing and should have settled it!