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Old Skool, now we're getting nutty! "Are you aware that the 3 men who wrote the most scripture all participated in murders. Moses actually did one, David arranged one, and Paul enabled them. So much for moral superiority. God's ways are higher than our ways. So VP didn't represent God, huh?" This starts to get into what waysider opened up for discussion - and it's a discussion, right? One mans' conspiracy theory is anothers' morning news. Of those 3 Paul could be said to have "written" the "most" - of the N. T. as that's primarily a collection of his letters, "epistles" of his teaching. Moses - the bible itself states that Moses "wrote" scripture, the law and is considered the writer of the 5 books comprising the "Torah"....a significant contribution but he did not write "the most" of scripture - compared to anyone else, and anyone else like who....? No, that's not correct, and reads like a hoot'n'holler line from a teaching. David - is thought to have written or be the originator of some of Psalms. Nutty Theory #213: That Moses, David and Paul wrote the most scripture in the Bible. No. Split hairs - Collectively? Who cares and who knows? The argument as stated is too weak to support the idea of supporting or trashing "moral superiority". But it reveals a point I think - that the issue isn't really morality or it's recognition with you johniam, the issue is passing judgment, in this age of grace. We have to honor the judgments of God and the guidance of Jesus Christ - the life of Jesus says "see me, see the Father" - Jesus clearly did not allow His followers wiggle room, although he clearly forgave, taught, supported and "loved" His followers in the same way He taught. The issues with VPW were that he segmented himself from everyone else, separated his work from all others and allowed virtually no management or control over what he did or didn't choose to do, except for those he choose to recognize.....for some that could be a recipe for success - for him it turned into kind of a train wreck. It just did - his entire life's work and what he hoped to be a great movement of God's Word and outreach thereof became a ramshackle organization fighting amongst itself, and he sowed the seeds for that by building it the way he did. In fact it could be said that it wouldn't or couldn't have happened any other way than it did, looking back. This is more than saying today "well, at least we still have The Word he taught!".......I kind of hock up a lung when I hear people quote that line as it's too self serving to warrant consideration. We all must move on though and we have, like it or not the day is a new one. But I appreciate the patience of all to allow this sideline... Nuttiness - I think it may be less a quality of anything Way related and more just the way people are that embrace a dualistic view of life - where man sees one thing and believes that unseen forces and realities are at play, the "spiritual" and the "physical". Look at how the entire topic of "the Devil" has taken on such big hairy weird legs over the years. I see more of a hybrid duality - of two things being one, and thatsa storee for another a pizza!

You mean what comes out of a man's mouth is more revealing than what goes in? He told that rich young ruler who tried to flatter him by saying "good master" why call me good? Only God is good. ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Sure, we all make moral judgements. Like I said, some people are in authority over other people. If I'm in authority as a parent, boss, supervisor, or whatever, then I can apply whatever I personally think is moral to any situation I want, but that doesn't mean I'm always going to be right. ----- No, you're wriggling John, relax, it's not a hot seat. Jesus Christ clearly, without question and without variation said - these words - or something in His native language very close to them or at least has been quoted for 2000 years as having said this so if you don't like it complain to someone else please: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. So yes what comes out of a person's mouth - what they say and in fact what they do - is of greater significance because it indicates what he has processed, believes, perhaps even likes and now chooses to do. Jesus said that, bitch to Him, although I suspect He would just suggest you read it again until that is what comes out of you, instead of trying to match His words against Him, argue against His teaching, catch Him in His Words - same .... that people did then. Good job illustrating my point though,but honest, I didn't expect you to. :wink2:/>/>/> So quick. Of course not everyone is right. You aren't either, don't let that stop you from trying though - just because we're frail and prone to error as humans doesn't mean we can't be better, do better and enjoy God's blessings more. It's really an open/shut case - I just like to point it out from time to time. Wayfers and some exWayfers will get their dandruff in an uproar over it and guys like John Lynn will get bug eyed and grease on some more hair gel and another corny one liner to try and refute it. Can't help that, it's just the way it is.

I would add - the "wisdom of the world" thingie - doesn't it relate to Christ and God's plan through Christ. To this world:biglaugh:/> view where there is no God, no Christ, no sin, no up or down but whatever one wishes to make of it or figure it out to be this week - That's "foolish"....to refute the possiblity of a God so magnanimous that His creation would unfold and grow within a broader context that is not immediately 'seen"........... It's not a disdain for the world, we live here. We are charged to be caretakers, tenders, to replenish and cause it to flourish, with respect. It's on that part of man that removes God and His son Jesus Christ that's called "foolish". To that unrepentant mind, Christ is "foolish". Kills me how people take that and use it to shoot holes in whatever they don't like. Funny, really but very human (and we are that, very). I suspect Jesus liked a warm, quiet hillside, cool water on a hot day, hard work, good food, the sound of industry in the distance, even knowing that the very world that would reject Him would come to know God through what He was doing and going to do. Kinda cool to think about that. I'm going to go think about that.....peace!

Nuttiness? It's nutty to argue moral superiority not being either possible or right. Morals have to do with behavior - principles and belief in action. It's bad theology and I would say atrocious Christianity to ignore morality. It's opposite what Christ taught, that what goes into a man and what he does with it is more important than simply what goes in. Many things go in - what do we do with it? Christ exhorted a faith towards God and to follow Him. Peeling off morality judgments to avoid the inevitable pain of seeing reality for what it is removes an essential and fundamental step in understanding who we are and possibly why we do what we do. To say "because we're all in sin", we're all sinners, is a cop out. Of course we all are. Remember? Mercy and Grace - Mercy allows for the kind of atonement that man can perform, sacritices, rituals, offerings of value. When atonment is performed mercy can be applied. Grace is another step forward from that - God's mercy and atonment through Jesus Christ has then brought forth a "gift" to those who accept atonement and all that goes with it - grace. We aren't simply the recipients of mercy because something was done to atone for something, we are the reicpients of much more than that now - by God's grace. More has been given to us than what was atoned for, in other words. This is so basic I hesitate to even write it - it is Romans and Ephesians. :)/>/>/>/>It's impossible to "be" redeemed" without then accepting the gift of God's grace. Grace is the capacity of God to give more than what we deserve and are forgiven for. This puts us in a unique position to both change how we choose to live as well as accept what God has given. Again - it's basic bible stuff. A moral view of the world is essential. Without it we disconnect from who and what we "were" and what we "are" now and how that relates to God's creation, our place in it, our futures, etc. etc. Judgment .........................................................................................that's a different deal. Isn't it? And maybe that's what we struggle with - if we don't submit to begin with we won't want to stand judged - remembering it's through our submission to Christ's atonement that we can stand judged, and atoned. For. And stuff. Looking back people can see a David, how he did wrongful things to others and yet was described as a "man after God's own heart"....but forget that an atonment was required for his sins and it was David who had to then accept God's judgment and then change his behaviors and actions in order to be that "new man". Before that, the bible says that "the thing David had done displeased the Lord"............the ramiifications of his actions were as horrible as can be imagined. We are "new men" in Christ but morally we can ask ourselves the question - "do I live that new life, do I act like it?" without fear of falling into condemnation. Aspiring upwards into God's grace, we can. Or we can just keep living like we did in the past and act like it doesn't matter. That's not "grace" though. Had David done that he would not have been a "man after God's own heart". I am of the opinion no reasonable man or woman can refute this if they are a Christian. We may not like it, we may want to float in some ethereal world where we don't want to be judged by God's judgments or called out for being less than God would have us to be, nor see it in others - But it is the way it is - morals and judgment - and I find man does it anyway, even if he labels it something else to make himself feel better about it.:)/>/>/>

It's there, sitting like a duh-! :dance:/> There's a lot in the film version of 1967 that escaped the consciousness. I would not take the position of scrapping the doctrinal points verbatim because a great deal of it is in the Bible. And I'm sure Preach' here knows that many many of those who "took" PFAL didn't absorb it in it's entirety the first time. After a few dozen though it should be pretty well baked in, y'know?

Quack. This explains a LOT about the direction humanity is moving today in the U.S. Freedom of speech and agreement are two different things. No one's freedom of speech is impinged, infringed or otherwise impeded on or by GS. That is self evident or should be - the fact that your opinion showed up here Preacher, a response and reaction to both perceived and real difference of opinion - is proof that you were: 1. Free to speak 2. Spoke freely using the facility of GS. So - Your opinions are self perpetuated and self existing with or without the freedom to express them. You are free to produce them, have them and own them. They're yours. And you're clearly free to express them as you see fit. You did. I do find it hiLARIOUS that this thread is titled that. Secondly - your logic is askew, dear. You say that "you label me as someone who doesn't agree with you and therefore WRONG! " Aside from right or wrong I do know that what would make you either isn't the result of my agreeing or disagreeing with you. To disagree with you a 1,000 times over and 70 times that, would not make you right if you were wrong, or vice versa. * Agreement is a measurement. Think of it like a metric Preach'. Two things align to nn (some) degree. On face value that alignment doesn't produce a right or wrong value. Also - the fact that there's variance might be correct, in actual fact so if that's the case "disagreement" or agreement might be expected in certain things, in order to get to the correct result. * Agreement doesn't mean that two or more things are the "same thing" - a fuzzy area for The Way in the theology over the years - agreement can never mean that two things are the same because that's impossible - if they were they wouldn't be two things, they'd be one. Ephesians refers to that, in relation to two becoming one "flesh", man and woman, Christ and the Church, and is called a "deep mystery", a profound "truth" as it were. In that way to aspire to an agreement on what people do or act or think or opinion-ate on isn't realistic and may not even be worthy of something as weighty as 'truth". In other words - so what? we agree or disagree. The ongoing effort to learn and know the 'truth" is a more worthy effort. *On a practical level, in application, agreement of two people on a certain thought or idea (for instance) doesn't imply right/wrong values to that agreement - agreement is quantitative before it's qualitative - 2 + 2 = 4..........1 + 3 = 4. We have agreement in differences there but we have the same amount, "4", of.....something. What that is and if there's "agreement" in that something is a different thing, again. However would submit that Christian thought today often ignores the simple plain realities of life - that the totals, the results of many things can be arrived at using different methods. This is not a "worldly" or ungodly view either - it's seen in the history of the bible and God's workings with His creation and people. All points come together in Christ however - an interesting thing to ponder. * In regards to "truth" or "truths" as you call them, I think we should accept some ground rules - I don't think you or my own experience constitutes "truth" in a universal way, in a way that's repeatable and consistent in the way that something like even a natural law is considered. ("gravity" is the usual whipping boy here) ... I mention that because yours and my own experience with the Way, the people and even the Word that was involved in being taught and how we received it, doesn't constitute something that has to be agreed on in the same way we agree on "Truth"......reason: human agency. The delivery system wasn't perfect 100 per cent of the time or consistently reliable and repeatable - it changed from person to person and year to year. Same with the medium of the "class" on film and written in books. Those things are less subject to variation but what they actuall are and were don't constitute something that "has" to be 'truth" and therefore agree upon - * The material in PFAL - right or wrong? In your premise here it doesn't matter - not really. You can choose to believe it or not. Same as anyone else. Doesn't matter if we agree. Or that you disagree. Hmmm, what else. Those "Biblical truths" - I'm not clear on what's got your goat in a twitch - Wayfers are just like ex Wayfers who are just like everyone else - a dik is a dik, with or without the Word. I don't care how "right" you are, VPW hisself used to say "I don't care if it's the truth of God's Word, I wouldn't believe it"....in PFAL. Remember that? If not, go find where he says it and what he's talking about. He meant that if you're an a-hole about being right you're not going to get anywhere with people. that some things can be so right yet be so wrong. * He also meant that if he didn't like something or think it was right, he didn't care if it was "God's Word" - Funny that he expressed it that way, but most people didn't notice or were snoozing at that point anyway. But that's in "PFAF" as you titled it, which I assume is the same class Not to worry, I can't type worth a hoot either. Why is it important to you whether others agree with you or not? If you're sure of yourself and honest in your desire to help others, just do it. If I don't agree with it - big f-ing deal. Don't let that dissuade you. *

Drambuie and Ensure? Hmmmm, now that's some drinkin'!

Dual citizenship? Wow - that's a bargain - twice the a-ss-hole, for the cost of one.

Where is that exactly? Carrying his own pee bag around on a hose? Living like a ho' off other's dollars? The thing about people who are really mean though is that being mean will bring a person to boil and to do things others wouldn't - faster and more forcefully. Where one person might try to defend themselves a mean vindictive hateful person will just cut you and leave you to bleed out, without blinking. That's Geer. But hey, watch he doesn't slosh his urine on you, yeah.

Hello all! This has bounced back up again - and Shaz was correct on this. (any decent lawyer could build a case for the opposition though and probably squeak it out, given time and money). Frankly though - who cares? The Way Nash doesn't - they really only dig their heels in when they feel like it or it conflicts with something they have interest in. People who ascribe to PFAL and want to see it back in force would support it's use by anyone, even the vile scoundrels at the Way who live to hose the innocent and whose very existence is an insult to people of honor and dignity everywhere. Which is why they'll never be able to fully stop re use of PFAL in it's pirated forms. They're too busy being benign and characteristically religious and church like in their behavior. They need to get some years between them and Craig before they can double back. That gives the white-hairs there now some time to lounge. But I digress - the spirit of Copyright law left on the last train out for the coast a long time ago. Had a bad hangover. Ex Wayfers on a mighty spiritual crusade will do what they will just as most of mankind usually does to rationalize their ownership of anything they really want, just like the rest of the "unbelieving" world do. Dat. Same crap, relabeled. My advice - wuddevah. If I had a rats asz I didn't really need I'd probably give it but they're getting few and far between. These people will do whatever they want with whatever they want - fine. Everyone's fees and donations who took PFAL in it's day paid for free access to it, forever, in perpetuity and for the rest of their lives - WHEN IT WAS OFFERED by the Way Nash. It didn't make that specific rendering of the PFAL class by VPW accessible to anyone anytime they ever wanted it, at their own request or insistence. The information, sure. The books, sure. But the spirit of truth, justice, the American way and speeding bullets should tell any idiot that if you take something that someone else produced, manufactured, wrote, built or otherwise brought into being - it's theirs. That's why you took it - they had it and you wanted it. On higher spiritual levels where doves cry and Wayfers postulate on the significance of the number 3 more than they do on the number of sick people they've healed in the last year , all bets are off and you better watch your panties if you get on their radar because if they like them, they'll figure out a rationale that says they are theirs and not yours. Really.

"telling your story" - vital, Twinky. I pick up from some local congregations that there's always a lot of buzz around whatever the hot topic is that month, what so and so is saying about who's going to hell, no one's going to hell, we're all going to hell - that was big last couple years. Love, God is love, what's that mean, who's not being loved, etc. etc. etc. There's a lot of dust ups around the latest pastor who's gone viral with a book or a message. There's some guy who's got a church that's big on the male role, it's a kind of uber-steak church for manly men - I forget the name of it. The pastor passes out advice like nickels and has a lot of answers for "today's" christian families. He seems mostly full of it, including himself. A lot of it is based on pastors moving outside of their real areas of strength and trying to forge doctrinal platforms, ad hoc, directly from the bible - so it's always in the "Word" but lacks depth. They might mean well in the beginning but they fall back to "God's Word" being the source and special revelations and such when challenged and end up building something else than that church of Christ. Water under that bridge is non stop I guess. Same old same old. Maybe we're just getting too old - not enough time left perhaps to waste on second rate maybe's and who's not going to hell, this week. To me - that stuff isn't the driver that the goodness of God and the living Christ is. The gospels are a story, retold and written for our benefit. The written word speaks an inspired message that God wants us to have. Our lives today speak an inspired living message that God wants us to share. We can't share what we don't already have. We can point the way, lead others to - and the single most significant thing we have to offer is our own lives, our story - what God is for us, Christ for us, what this all means and has meant - to us. I just see it as an attitude.When I walk into a store - which I don't like to do to begin with - I just look around at the people as I go about my bizness. People are fascinating, sometimes it's just nearly overwhelming what's going on in the normal daily life of a any one of us. To even get a sense of that and be ready and willing to help - just that - to help, if you can...what's better than that. I hate shopping for the most part but that gives me a nudge to be there if I have to. Amidst all the chaos are streams of life wafting through - just a helping hand, a 'you go first' , any act of kindness can be the entry into another person's world where Christ needs to be. I'd be nuts to withhold good when it's in my hand to do. What's better than that? I agree, many feel awkward speaking about Christ and God and the bible and stuff - it's a good exercise to go through and kind of re think and retell our own "stories" - and let the truth of what we really believe level set our lives and consciousness. It makes it easier to do stuff I think. To add - it's easier living in a country where no one's going to jail or kill me for my faith. I pray for the world that's outside my own and am very thankful I have the freedom I do. We're getting "killed softly" though in the US in ways however - I understand why people are afraid to speak about certain things I guess, when you can't sneeze and get a "God bless you" without someone complaining. (personal grudge - people 100 feet away shouting "God Bless YOU!" at the slightest sound of a sneeze, all the worse if you have several in a row - c'mon, God blessed me I get it, thanks).....but Christians have this tainted odor of being biased and prejudiced and some of it for good reason - But I see no reason why I must with hold the daily recognitions of my faith that are meaningful to me and to others and that mean good to others not harm, so that someone who doesn't like it can feel satisfied. I'm happy to let others celebrate theirs, as I am mine. I suspect the atmosphere in society can be difficult for some people, it is for me sometimes.

I keep in touch with some people that are still active in the Way, see them or communicate few times a year. Great people. I have fairly clear cut views on certain things and if we were to discuss those things there might be agreement or disagreement. I usually stay out of what's going on "now" because as far as the Way itself goes, I don't really care what's going on now. I visit their website or go off on them here but I have the same care and concern for them I would anyone else. I don't consider the existing Way Nash a remnant of anything, just the echoes of a distant past for those who remember it. The Way that's there now is not The Way that was envisioned by me or what I was working towards. Whatever they are now, really are, I'm not involved with them so it's not my concern. They don't affect me or mine - now. So it's not a really big deal. I care about my friends though and would be happy to discuss anything that's relevant to their lives, their concerns, families, etc. I can be extremely blunt and anyone that knows me knows that but that's not the "real me". For GS, it's a write/read medium so I use hyperbole and overstatement to make my points clear. When I say "I don't like something" I want it clear that I don't care whether my reasons convince anyone else, my conclusions are what they are, period. Have they "changed"? Couldn't tell you. If Rivenbark's still running it I would assume for very good reason that it's about like chockfull states. People involved with the Way now can be very happy though because if they're living honestly and according to their faith they're no better or worse off than anyone else. How honestly does anyone really live, in their heart, at their best? I'm not that judge to say. As for the influence of the Way, the further you are from their control the better. And for reasons chockfull states they have to be careful now that they realize they have to obey the law and must remain within the parameters of their state, county and city/village laws.

That's great news Kit. I'm really sorry for your loss. Really really wish you the best of all things, all the time. Sounds like you're getting along. Take good care of yourself!

Chris Geer's report makes a bad report look good, by comparison. He could be reported as being a dishonest liar and he'd be better off, pound for pound, than the report he himself actually gets. He may have just adopted the All Time "it's not me" losers' limp excuse for the fact that no one that's ever known him likes him all that much. (although he was never all that weird to me it may have been because he lacked opportunity, dunno). He was able to later say it was because of the "stand" he took for the Word (hackspittlekaffkaff) sorry, even writing that in this context makes me hock up stuff....but yeah, the stand he took for whatever it was he was taking and standing about. He later sold his retitled PFAL class for serious $$$ through licensing agreements, to those desperate souls too stupid to have learned PFAL the first 50 or so times they took it and needed someone else to tell them what they already had forgottten - hard to report anything good about that. But no one ever had a chance to really get up close to him because he kept everyone at a distance by deliberate intent and action. He liked being a dik, in other words. It's been said it's because his Dad mistreated him - I wouldn't know. He was pretty good at being an outcast when I met him as teenagers, I know that. But that excuse only goes so far - he married Barbara, a very sweet woman in her youth and given the opportunity I'm sure she would have had a healing affect on him. Maybe she did - maybe what he became isn't as bad as he could have been. Dunno. I hope he's doing better - I'm surprised anyone's checking on him here, perhaps to find out if he can continue to be a living stick pin, again - dunno.

Billy Boblet was getting the company line or was part of it him/her self. I took PFAL in 1968. I'm probably not the best representative of GS in opinion or perspective, but I do know that most of the participants in this board weren't from the 70's and 80's. That statement indicates participation from the early growth surge of the Way through the death of the founder and the transition to Martindale. IMO, most of the useful input has come from those involved in the 80's, 90's and into the 2000's....that era really shows the transition into what the Way is today - it covers the greatest impact of Martindale setting up shop and building - sorry, I meant destroying, the Way's structure. As you note chockful, the Way's interests are served by re inventing the whole thing. That GS is full of old timers, belly achers, who aren't happy with this thing or that things but that's all changed, it's different, the Way of today isn't the same as what they're talking about blah blah blah. But Rivenbark's been there since the 70's and the current Absence of Trust Trustees are all relatively recent generation flakes, goombahs that have glommed on to the tail of a very aging and decrepit dog in it's final years. To someone like me - I don't care what someone who came along in the late 80's or the 90's does or thinks - I mean, I do but not if or in a way that validates the Way's integrity to a meaningful degree. To me - the 90's were all built around the pathologies of Martindale - a known quantity of failure and who appears to have had a public nervous breakdown and subsequent injection of personal pathologies on and into the organization he led. The Way never publicly tracked any action taken to correct that or even help him other than to boot him out - a good decision - but not effective if it was the only one. Leaving the standing cootie platoon of "leadership" in place to 'fix" anything was ludicrous. They're under trained, under experience and under-undered everything to be able to lead anything bigger than a pod of goldfish. I'm serious. They're nidiots. When people still come tumbling out of that barrel in New Knoxville with complaints that sound like the same ones that were made 40, 30, 20, 10 years ago - Duh. Get a clue Clyde. And oh yeah - Merry Christmas! />

The end of the world stuff and Judgment Day stuff do tend to get mixed together. Karma may be the best man can envision - what goes around comes around, you will get what's coming to you, as you give so shall you receive, treat others as you would be treated, the love you make is equal to the love you take, that sort of thing. I frequently appeal to myself and others from that perspective as I think it helps to keep us clear on the possibilities. If I DO give as I get and get as I give there's no real surprises. And life does tend to progress in the temporal plane that way, day to day, pret' near, more or less. Christianity is based on a different platform - "grace". Grace is a powerful concept, idea, ideal, and the results of it when applied are different than a karmic approach. Grace as taught by Jesus (who also taught the other give/receive too) and then by His followers later allows for the seemingly impossible things they attempted and taught - forgive others, give without measuring for a response, love without ceasing, etc. . One might say life is fine, for them - another life is terrible, for them - and in all the state of humanity is what it is and it will produce good and bad, right and wrong, etc. etc. "Mercy, grace and peace" to us all, indeed. It's a different view and one that I believe is found in many non-Christian religions, at their highest form. Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) wrote a great song that has some of this idea in it - push comes to shove, at the end of whatever and while I'm going there, it's a nice thought. "Love and Mercy" I was sittin' in a crummy movie With my hands on my chin all the violence that occurs Seems like we never win Love and mercy that's what you need tonight Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight I was lying in my room And the news came on TV A lotta people out there hurtin' And it really scares me Love and mercy that's what you need tonight Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight I was standing in a bar And watching all the people there Oh the loneliness in this world Well it's just not fair Love and mercy that's what we need tonight Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight

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I have mixed feelings on it being literal. The atonement by blood sprinkled on the ark, and that being the actual blood of Jesus Christ physically on the ark lid itself - I'm not sure that has to be the case. Christianity is based on a fulfillment of the offering done in a way that would be "once and done", not a continuation of previous ritual but a final act of sacrifice and offering, the atonement of the sacrificial lamb - Jesus. As I understand it there is an element to that offering of it being in real time, being done before God, "sprinkled", put forth in a way that it's clear that it's a real sacrifice and a real offering. We know that according to the records set forth in the gospels that did occur, in that Jesus died and His blood was shed, literally and in real time. The "offering" of it was being done in a vastly greater context than the day and people involved - Romans, Jews, followers, enemies, observers, all the participants were performing their actions completely different and contrary to what a Temple priest did when offering the blood at the ark. There was no singleness of purpose to make the death of Jesus Christ an "offering" of any kind. That's very telling to me - it fits with the burial and time of Jesus in the grave, the 3 days and 3 nights. He died and was buried. But to the people he wasn't killed to make a sacrifice before God, and while He was dead no one anticipated the resurrection. These events were clearly an engineering and execution of a Godly intent and purpose - nobody knew what was going to happen next, they abandoned any hope of a future with Jesus and were themselves distraught until He revealed Himself to them. Soooooo - could it have happened that way, where the blood did actually do that? I don't know, other stuff comes to mind but gotta run for now.

Ron Wyatt did not produce evidence of that happening, his claims did not prove that his blood sampling was the blood of Jesus. He was looking for something he intended to find, one way or another apparently. His "proof" did not prove that was the blood of Jesus Christ. He wants it to be, fine.

Likewise - Wyatt proposes something along the lines of the blood of Jesus falling through a crack in the earth that happened after his crucifixion when the earth "shook" and that soaked into an area below that spot where the ark of the covenant supposedly was. I think - I've read these accounts before. There's a lot of pieces that have to come together for that to even be remotely possible. It's less a matter of it being true in my opinion - because what Wyatt does is seek existing evidence, artifacts, historical evidence of past events we read of in the Bible. That's fine, and a very worthy endeavor. But I can't require that there be evidence today or that there be artifacts for me to find. LIke with the blood of Jesus stuff - it would be interesting but - so what? It's not going to take the records of the gospels and make them all true. Nor if ancient wood is found on a mountain. Boat? Fine. What's that really prove though? A quick glance at the assorted web sites seilling stuff doesn't offer the kind of validated documentation I hoped to find. I am somewhat dubious however of claims that can only be really understood by buying a DVD, tape or book. The videos are just snooze fests. ZZZzzzzz. My man. Waters that be Muddy!

Wyatt is a guy who looks, finds things and says they're what he was looking for. He's dead for a while now, I assume from his work that I have read that he meant well but I would simply say he did not maintain enough of discipline in his work. He wanted to find what he was looking for so he did. A lot of us do that with a lot of things. Noah's ark - the loose language of the bible has been developed into the "flood story" where everyone and everything on earth was destroyed by a flood so massive and deep it allowed Noah to beach his boat on - supposedly - Mount Arafat, which is up to 17,000 feet high. Forget the boat - that's a LOT OF WATER, covering the earth. Think about it - the entire earth covered by what - say 10, 000 feet of water or more... Think about the storms we've seen in the last 25 years around the globe, HUGE amounts of rain and water, and the terrible devestation caused by them. That's light drizzle according to what Genesis is interpreted to say. According to the story woven about the flood, the entire planet becomes an ocean, basically. A big lake with a few mountain tops poking up through it by the time it's over. And this all happens in 40 days - how much water has to fall in an hour to do that? The method of destruction doesn't match the requirements for starters - you don't need that much rain to kill everything. Heck, we get an hour of hard rain and people start driving like nut cakes. Considering the amount of rain you would have to dump in an hour and what that would do to the people, animals and property getting dumped on - it would take much less time to kill everything on the earth. Except the fish of course, who I would assume did fine, at least the ones who could stay down and move around the incredible amounts of earth that would have shifted as a result of the impact of all that water for 40 days. That affect of the rain destroying what it hit and the earth mixing with water is what's really scarey and again, unreasonable - the earth would have become not like a pacific ocean or a Lake Tahoe, but a huge puddle of mud. Most of the death would be caused by the exposure to such an incredible onslaught of water hitting you, non stop, for 40 days and then everything and everyone would have been floating in a brown sludge. But I'd assume that everything was dead within 10 days, 15? at the rate many think it fell - after that it would be over kill, literally. 40 days and nights of rain is one thing - enough rain to cover the earth as Genesis states today - for 40 days and nights - whole nother deal. It's the details and the math that crunches it - so I would assume that the record's been messed with over the millenia, or just represents a massive morality tale, with some likely tags to reality. There is more feasible history and evidence of a large flood occuring in that area of the world and there being a kind of history that's similar that may be true. For those who say "well, it's in the Bible so it must be true" - they're being silly. Yes it's in the Bible, what does it really say, what does it mean, how should it be understood? I think theology has talked itself into a corner on a lot of things and is just stuck there. But either way, it doesn't have to be the pin upon which everything else hangs on.

I like them Ron! Also, a good practice - if it has cheese in it, on it or over it, have some!

Ha! Well, there's always exceptions. It's no skin off my nose either way. I was interested in engaging in conversation - at first. But Yahweh hisself would get his panties in a twist at being made to appear so obtuse and absolutely inexcusably BORING as those dwads in those videos who drone on and on and on and... The best ones are the ones who use those voice de dibblers, that disguise your voice so "no one" can recognize you. So - there's a vidiot who uses a network connection to post a series of 90 minutes videos ONLINE where the whole world can see them, and have a library of these snooze fests, subscribers, and email addresses.... And they disguise their voice so no one can find out who they are..... Right there - that's all I need. That's too dumb to take seriously. Intentions might be good, I accept that. But 1/2 a bun short of a corn dog - yes.

Troll. By any other name... I don't think it contributes to anything remotely "doctrinal" to drop links to videos without any reference to what's in them or what the interest of the person posting them is. Why should I care if someone else doesn't care enough to at least offer a paragraph or two. It's assumed that this isn't for sharing videos, it's for discussing topics. If this person was interested in having a discussion about ideas and beliefs they'd state them. Instead it's these videos. I'm done being courteous. Look for a New Me, accept no substitutes!