Nathan_Jr

I have been objectively investigating the movement of religious hucksters for a few years. Religious hucksters have been around for millennia, but a movement emerged out of the evangelical/fundamentalist/Pentecostal tide that was rising in early 20th century America. By mid 20th century, this movement was reaching a crescendo. Every Tom, Dick and Uncle Harry's brother was eager to catch a wave on this storm surge. Unaccredited huckster diploma mills started popping up all over the country to meet a new demand for religious credentials. Most of these "seminaries" offered only correspondent courses. The "course work" was, well, Mickey Mouse. The most important criterion for "earning" a degree was a check that cleared the bank. These huckster degree mills folded as quickly as they ascended. Most do not exist today. It was a cash grab. For everyone. Pikes Peak was one of these short lived huckster diploma mills. Don't take my word for it. Find out for yourself.

What do you think this means?

Just let it interpret itself.

Chin kwalla moo shoo porka

Let the collaterals light your path.

They are affiliated but not the same. PTSem is now revered as one of the top seminaries in the country with one of the largest theological libraries on the planet with an endowment of over $1B. It's selective. It's a serious institution for higher learning. victor said he received a Master of Theology in practical theology. This is broad and must be tailored by the student for focus. One available tract of practical theology is preaching. This may have been victor's focus, as he later went on to purchase a mail order doctorate in homiletics. (A ThM in preaching may also explain how he got off the hook of learning Greek and Hebrew.) I wonder what PTSem was like when he attended. Was it quite as rigorous as it is today? I can't seem to find the dates of his enrollment. Just vague generalities loosely sketching a timeline. Was it during the war? Was this his cop out to avoid the draft? Or were other laws in place then to allow him to skate out of service to country?

Confirmation bias has no place in objective investigation.

There’s your hint, right there where you wrote it. God APPEARS to be limited, because our limited perception will not perceive the Truth. Who is limited? God? or man? Be still. Watch. Find out for yourself.

Ask the music coordinator.

“Superstar”

“rich”

Got to make it FIT!

Yeah, but, HOWEVER, that question mark was moved from an earlier sentence and erroneously placed in this one. In fact, to fix this apparent contradiction, just cross it out. Cross out the entire verse, punctuation and all.

God didn’t write the book of Job. Man did. That’s man’s mythic portrayal of God. Though there are lessons to be learned, it is written from a limited perspective and understanding.

What a pathetic, mythic, little god you have. I would be too embarrassed to define my little god when asked, as well. I see why you can't and won't answer my questions. This is what is "taught" by that slithering little huckster. I picked up on this early in the film class. That strained grimace on victor's face as he pitches one off in the mouth of God is self-evident -- I could discern this within 30 seconds of that "class" that defecates all over God and his people. I rest my case. Again.

Mmmmph

I think you might have inadvertently inverted Shelby’s point. (But I could be the inverted one. After all, I am but a mere glassy eyed something something…)

It’s called CRS. Starts in your mid 40s.

There are no coincidences, remember? Not too far off topic. Cox crowing as many times as you need to MAKE it fit.

Mekia Cox. Very good actor. She was great on K&P - she steals this scene. Haven't seen the Rookie. And, yes, lovely and gorgeous.

Glossolalia has occurred for thousands of years across oceans and continents and cultures. Holy men, shamans, Montanus, every day people caught up in prayer, and even psychedelic explorers have spoken in authentic tongues without any academic, systematic, formulaic, contrived training. The excellor classes are pure, steamy bullshonta. I'm trilingual in glossolalia. I can inflect interrogatives in glossolalia. I can even write in glossolalia. It proves nothing but itself, in my opinion. HOWEVER...

This is the implication. The word takes the place of the absent Christ. What is the Word? YourWalk+YourBelieving+ChristInYou+TheBible = the Word (Mike's definition) How is one to walk? What is your walk supposed to look like? Like victor's. Imitate him. Stand on his shoulders. Let the collaterals be your guide. What is one to believe? Whatever Victor says to believe. Four crucified, crowing cocks, moveable commas, apple butter, pickle jars, cookies.... believe PFAL, the collaterals and the oodles and oodles of error within. What is Christ in you? The power of the law of believing; a rebirth, a new identity dependent on tithing - the sine qua non of Christian identity; "spirit" that one "gets" from systematic formulas and hoop jumping made from the limited thoughts of man; something that can be lost if one is born again, again, because that which is from God is temporal, weak, fallible. Whatever the writings of victor says it is. What is the Bible? According to victor, the Bible is NOT the Word. But with enough deletions and rewritings as directed by victor, it can approach becoming the Word. Read PFAL and the collaterals instead. The Word is the ministry. What is the ministry? Serving up PFAL, IC and the collaterals; programming; conditioning; indoctrination; slavery.

Damn, this thread is good! Bumping because it dovetails perfectly with a few other concurrent threads.

Corpsmen? Corpswomen?

How is coordinator defined here? Who is a coordinator?