waysider

Well, let's see. 1. Not angry 2. Not bitter 3. Definitely not a "buttkisser" Nope. Shoe doesn't fit. Oh, by the way, VP wasn't really a "Dr.", but he played one on stage.

In light of the subject at hand, would "first" be an appropriate descriptor?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mojrls62Jes&feature=related

Well, there's "physical" polygamy and then there's "spiritual" polygamy, dontcha know? Haha!---Just playing off of Wierwille's old rationalization that adultery in the Bible is supposedly "spiritual" adultery. He taught it. Then he thumbed his nose at it in defiance. He was about as spiritually tuned in as my old crystal radio. My link

Only thing i can figure is there must have been some kind of MOG shortage at the time. Or maybe he just "embellished " his resume to get the job.

B.B. King for president (He could teach us all a thing or two about perseverance.)

My point was that he was a polygamist by his own definition, which I outlined in the original post

Wierwille said the words were changed to reflect predestination.(ie: we are His masterpiece, before the foundations of the world, etc.) It gave him a personal out from ever having to say he had been a wretch.

I'm not sure----but wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?

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I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this lately but VP wasn't really a "Dr.". (Just in case anyone was still wondering)

Yeah, I guess I posted that too fast. I went back and edited it. Thanks for catching that.

Remember this one?

It's been a common practice for centuries to interchange melodies and lyrics of songs. The words in the blue songbook, however, were intentionally changed to reflect Way doctrine. (Or as it was stated at the time, "to make them more accurate with the rightly divided Word.") One glaring example is the way Amazing Grace was changed to eliminate the phrase "a wretch like me". There was even a teaching (Possibly a Sunday Night Service) that made reference to the reason for this particular change. "Seated in the heavenlies" and "before the foundations of the world" and other such scriptures were used to show how the original phrase was "off". I don't remember much of the minute specifics. The brown songbook, on the other hand, was specifically changed because of conflicts with "permission of usage" problems. This explanation was given to me by someone who was very tight with the uppermost level of management and had been involved with the ministry since the 1950s. Out of respect for him, I won't use his name here.

It's hard to beat some of those great old songs, though. Songs like What a Fellow's Hip and I Don't Know About Tomorrow, I Just Guess From Day To Day .

I never paid much attention to it until one day I happened to notice I had 10,000. Holy crapioly! How did that happen?

Why didn't the L.E.A.D. participants simply use those MountainTop checks?

Some words get automatically filtered. :P

I remember that much, vividly. I think it was in the early 1980s but I could be wrong on the date.

They stick out their thumbs, "rev" up their believing and hitch a ride to the next latest and greatest God-on-a-stick operation.

John said: The so called law of believing has been misunderstood. If you have the word of God, THEN you can believe (with action) and it shall come to pass, like Jesus said. Believing, however, is not this 'raygun' that you can just shoot at any situation and magically make it right. If that were true, then no God IS needed. waysider said: You must not have the same PFAL book as me. Mine says "it works for saint and sinner alike" John said: I don't recall anything about a raygun. waysider responds: Nor do I. In fact, I never mentioned a ray-gun----you did. ------------------------------------------------- PFAL page 32 The law of believing is the greatest law in the Word of God. As a matter of fact, it is not only the greatest law in The Word, it is the greatest law in the whole world. Believing works for saint and sinner alike. ------------------------------------------------- So there you have it. In The Way, "born again believers" were referred to as saints and "natural-man unbelievers" were referred to as sinners. Wierwille is clearly implying here that no God is needed for the so-called law of believing to come into play.

You must not have the same PFAL book as me. Mine says "it works for saint and sinner alike".