Mike

... my thinking STINKS huh! Of course, you know , THIS MEANS WAR! Just kidding. I'm preoccuped but came to read a little.

Raf, We all have a lot of reading to do on this subject. I'm grateful to see that you discern between TVTs and the books. I'm also looking into the concept of counterfeit and does it even apply to this topic. I'm keying off the idea of counterfeit money being PASSABLE. There seems to be a lack of that idea of something being PASSED as genuine that is not, if we speak of the devil as "counterfeiting" the new birth. Just a thought, as I return to working on about 4 or 5 doojable posts that got lost in the shuffle.

I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. According to a reconstruction of your own memory you have thrown together an Apparent Contradiction. I pointed out to you some previous flaws in you memory of the mystery. I remember my own sloppy handling of the mystery as to what was a secret and what was not a secret. We all need to learn to try and not wing it on these things. Eve's mistake was to not stick with the exact words she was taught. Again -- I demand the texts and the time to work them. If with the texts in hand I see an AC, I continue to work the texts until the AC evaporates, no matter how long it takes. That’s what we were taught. I will not play it your way. I will try to help you over the AC, but I will not allow any AC to derail my focus. These things take time. I outlined several possible ways to START looking into this, and resorting back to memory is not one of them. We need to read EVERYTHING in PFAL on this topic and then refrain from human reason according to BTMS page 23. There is an entire chapter in the PFAL book titled "The Unforgivable Sin" AND another one of the same title in WWAY. There is a large chapter in GMWD on the Mystery. That's they way to proceed. Just from the KJV we know that Jesus knew about the new birth before Pentecost. Have you even looked at how Jesus was surprised that Nicodemus did NOT know about the new birth? John 3 1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. 3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? 5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. 9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? 10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? So we can also add into the mix all the PFAL places where Dr handles these verses. It's work. It takes time. *** Now, I have to get to doojable as promised. I can do only one thing at a time. This will give you time to find the texts from which you are paraphrasing.

doojable, I was afraid Tom would say the same thing. I'm sorry. I'll try to put you next. Right now I'm getting sleepy. Hey! Cheer up. You're last but certainly not LEAST! It's in the CLASS!

dmiller, Here's how: From the Treasury Department's announcements of the soon to be issued bills, and from past similar patterns. The counterfeit won't be perfect, but it doesn't have to be to be a counterfeit. All it needs to be is passable, and if the counterfeiters have a strong grip on the entire population (like the adversary does), then even a sloppy copy can be forced fit on the population. (Remember, this is an analogy, so it’s bound to get stretched thin.)

Why would anyone prefer an ancient text (with some small copy problems) in ancient languages (with huge translation problems)? God wanted all of Israel to have spirit and prophesy, and did His best to find ways to make it happen without violating principles like free will and the adversary’s transferred ownership. Eventually He succeeded in making spirit freely available to all on Pentecost. Why would God prefer us to be hamstrung with no authoritative English text of His Word and will? Certainly it’s logical that God would do His best to find ways to re-issue His Word to those who truly wanted it, authoritatively and in their native tongue. All the world is now coming to English as their language of choice with the great influence of the Internet, CNN, and Hollywood. Certainly with all the problems in world religions, God would want us to have His Word in crystal clear authoritative English. The only people who could logically want to see God NOT succeed in reissuing His Word to us in modern English would be the theologians, ancient language experts, and self-seeking false ministers of tradition... or people who just haven’t totally thought the whole thing through yet. I have bet my life that God did succeed in this and He wasn’t hampered by any man, no matter what the sin and shortcomings. The only thing I see that can qualify as God’s sorely needed reissued Word is PFAL, written PFAL. Outside of that all we have is opinions, non-authoritative versions and translations. I am thankful to God that I can loudly proclaim this in this free country.

Tom Strange, I’m very thankful for this most recent post of yours. You’re a civil man. :) *** I will look over some of the things in my hopper and start cutting things out. It has been a bit dicey for me to deal with old matters (when things were much hotter) and not rekindle the flames. I’m also thankful that you were able to tolerate my recent handling of these older edgy matters. Some things may be useful to still post on to for the benefit of others, but I will cut that to a minimum. The “earth shaking” pasteups were probably WW’s doing, and I thought could they use some explanation. I sometimes forget who is who in the heat of battle, mostly looking at the wordplay only. Plus there've been so many. I'm sorry I blamed you for that. I don’t blame you for having been extremely curious about some of the statements I made. Some of them I made to deliberately stimulate curiosity, yet remain honest. It’s my heart’s desire to sometime, even soon, get to explain them here. *** I admit I have been rough at times, but I always TRY to only resort to that after I’ve been hit hard, and often only after multiple hits. There are times when I have made mistakes in this effort to only return punches after being hit. Last September, on a TWI guy’s website this happened. This was the guy who was only doing the board to collect statistics for a school project and his site only lasted a few weeks. In a typical many-poster mêlée there I had swung hard at a poster named Jim, who I believe posts here too. I had said to all there: “I asked Jim on the previous page to produce for me an authoritative source for learning God's Word and will ...something infallible that we can stand on and never budge ...something we never have to back off from, like Dr prayed for in 1942. __ Jim was quick on the draw to cast doubts on Dr's material as being from God, yet HE backed off when I challenged him to produce something better. That's the pattern of all those grads seduced by the dark force: tear down, but never build back up. It's easy to tear down, and grads are seduced into thinking they are doing God a favor in doing such destruction, kind of like how Saul of Tarsus did, but they never can build back up anything like what God and Dr built in the PFAL writings.” Jim eventually wrote back: “I didn't really back down, I just had to clean the garage today instead of sitting in front of the computer...” I went back to the record and saw that my harshness was uncalled for in his case, and wrote (with these same colored fonts) this apology: “I will give you more time to answer. I apologize if I was too hasty. I do look forward to your answers. __ If I was unnecessarily tough on you in any other way, please observe that I am under constant attack from many who wish me ill will. This has been going on for years. When you enter a bar room fight, it's kind of normal for punches to be thrown in the wrong directions at times. The military calls it "collateral damage" and it must be accepted as part of the job. __ Since I don't know you yet, I'll try to pull my punches in your vicinity unless I see you seriously swing at me.” *** I know that this same thing has happened here on occasion, and when I became aware of it I did my best to apologize to the few I was rough on without cause. In the confusion it happens. One summer I was in daily battle with 74 posters, many simultaneously. I didn’t do the counting; some other poster did. It can get confusing. I remember hearing from CoolWaters long ago that I brought one woman poster to tears once. I THINK I found out who she was and apologized. My memory is fuzzy here, and if I failed to find her and apologize I want to and will. If there are any posters here who feel I did this to them I want to issue a general apology now, and if they show me the location or help me find the location in my files with a few keywords I’ll post a more specific apology. *** Just a short re-cap of my history before you registered here, Tom, may help you see why I can get pretty feisty. I was literally dragged onto GreaseSpot by two posters who splashed my private e-mails to them on the board. I was not a registered member then, just a lurker. There were two threads about me, and they contained MANY of my e-mails pasted in word-for-word in their entirety. No one expressed the thought that it was unethical, not one. It lasted for about a month. I was lurking and patiently waited for the storm to die down. In that storm I was insulted and maligned in a hideous way. If it were to happen to any other poster here there would be fireworks and all sorts of complaints. I waited about three months for things to die down and started quietly and politely posting my message. I prefaced it by saying I had some extreme views. I went slowly to lay out my message quietly. Within days of my posting I was fingered as the weird guy who was the subject of those two denouncing threads. Then the pile-on started. But I was ready and fought back hard. Many posters here, I strongly suspect, had never in ten or more years encountered any resistance to their PFAL bashing. I think they needed to be shown strong resistance so I fought hard. That pile-on has gradually ended, but only very gradually, and I’ve been a fighting Irishman all this time with those who want to fight me. I think I’ve done a good job of forcing them to consider that their antiPFAL opinions are only just that, opinions, and that they were poorly thought through opinions in many instances. If I don’t convince many people here to accept my opinions, at least I get them to re-think their own. *** I would love to get into more of the statements of mine that you found odd, quickly, outrageous, and/or crazy. It’s all a matter of time and set-up. Maybe we can get into the Return of Christ, but we need to start at the beginning and go slow. How about that one on PFAL helping us to defy death? That would be easier. I’m open to suggestions.

Speaking of ACTUAL ... Finding an Apparent Error ACTUALLY can be a great thing. It could be a spot that the adversary thought would be in his interests to obfuscate by the many means at his disposal. In the Biblical counterpart, I do believe that Dr just MAY have utilized Madalyn Murray O'Hare writings or pamphlets like "101 Bible Contradictions" to locate on such hot spots. Once an Apparent Error is resolved, by those who WANT to resolve them, a wonderful truth may be unearthed out from the debris. La de da de de, La de da de da!

Tom Strange, You wrote: “...that's how you 'present' your posts to us... like "How dare we question what you're saying, it's God's Truth!" but you've not showed us the "why" or the "how" you got to that point, so therefore we question.” I think you may be confusing my tone of voice with a tone you did often hear in the past from grumpy leadership. Instead of me feeling “How dare you question me and God!” I often have a feeling “How dare you use that bullying TWI technique on me!” and I feel that way only toward the very aggressive and impolite posters who come at me first. People who disagree with me civilly I can totally accept and be civil back. *** SOMETIMES I fight back with equal ferocity to demonstrate to non-participating readers that they too don’t have to take the antiPFAL rhetoric that’s been flying about for 20 years now. I remember the days when JAL and Ralph D came to town in the late 80’s and early 90’s with their live version of the ferocious antiPFAL tones we often see here. In those meetings I saw some quiet proPFAL people rhetorically beat up LCM style by some of the participants. I think the meek and intimidated proPFAL people out there need to see someone stand up to the bullying techniques so despised by many posters here, but so heavily and hypocritically used by the same posters without compunction by antiPFAL people here. Certainly the old leadership that claims to support watered down and re-written “PFAL principles” are incapable and/or unwilling to set the example of standing up to tough talk like that, so I volunteer for the job. *** I had written: “What’s the matter with someone speaking God's Truth? Are you of the opinion that no one can do that? Do you believe in the 9 manifestations? Do you believe in God? just where are YOU coming from, Tom.” You retorted with: “There you go putting words in my mouth again Mike. I didn't say that or allude to that. This would be a good example of your 'essay method' mentioned above. Pulling something out of thin air.” I had written: “If you are going to warn readers about me, shouldn’t you be open and honest about your beliefs? What do you believe? Who is your God?” And again you retorted with: “If you think that by my letting folks know 'where you're coming from' is "warning them" doesn't that speak to a little bit of paranoia on your part? ...or maybe that you really are trying to mislead folks?” See, you sidesteped the issue with an insult of paranoia, just like I’m often accused of doing. If you’re going to be an “informer” as you admitted, then I think the people you inform should know where YOU are coming from? ...or maybe YOU are really trying to mislead folks!” Maybe YOU ought to promote God (as well as WHICH one) a little as you inform, just like you accused me of being deficient in. *** “I'll ask you for about the five millionth time... "How is it 'discrediting' you if I'm just asking you about statements that you've made?” By selectivity. News organizations can slant things by what they choose NOT to report. If you select to report someone’s punch line to a long involved joke, but omit the buildup, doesn’t that rob the joke of it’s humor? And in some cases couldn’t that even possibly slander the teller of the joke? It works for serious stuff too. You can select a dramatic punch line of mine and omit the buildup, thereby making me look kooky. The very fact that none of you guys saved the locations nor the contexts of my statements is telling.

I hear you Clifhanger. The initial stages of a baby’s learning seem well beyond the reach of understanding. I’d like to list templelady’s contribution and adding in yours too. Repeating the class, or better yet re-reading the books is beneficial: 1) to refresh the memory 2) to catch anything that might have been missed the first time 3) to hear things that are applicable in life now that weren't before 4) to make fresh associations that couldn’t have been made prior Maybe we can think of more.

Tom Strange, You wrote that the reason you ask about my more sensational statements is because they're statements I’ve “made that are so far beyond anything else anyone else has ever come up with...” and that you “...(and others) are interested in the basis of those statements...” Ok, then if it’s genuine interest, and not a mere smear campaign, they you must sit tight for the whole essay’s worth of explanatory buildup. *** You then wrote: “...but you never answer the questions about them... you only scold us for being so naive and not 'mastering' the material. That, coupled with your reluctance to 'stand by' your statements, leads me to think that you're afraid of them.” But I did show that I answered some in recent posts here. The answers may have been delivered to other more polite posters and so more antagonistic challengers like you and your friends may have missed them. BTW, I'm not forgetting that you've been civil to me lately, just recounting our history. *** Speaking of sensational statememts, it looks like CM is giving me a run for the money on statements “...that are so far beyond anything else anyone else has ever come up with...” CM just wrote: "your lack of understanding does not motivate me love does you really want to know about the spirit then you will have to live some of it which includes hell where the adversary is and you might be surprised who else is there" Who do you think he saw in hell? Abraham Lincoln? No, probably not. The apostle Paul? No, probably not. OH! The curiosity is getting to me. Oh MY GOSH! I hope CM wasn’t seeing this mystery man with foreknowledge (known to be more powerful than Superman’s X-Ray Vision) and that he saw ME there!!! Oh NO! I’m doomed as doomed can be, ya know! Oh BUT, what if Pat Sajak is there too? Well then it might not be so bad. Oh my! Isn’t this a quandary. I'm going completely mental, I must say. Which should I choose Pat in hell or CM on GreaseSpot? They’re both fine fellows, ya know. Oh Give me a break! To be without Mr Sajak would certainly be a hell in itself, but I wouldn’t want to offend Mr CM either, or is it neither? Oh no, another quandry! This is certainly NOT my lucky day. But then again it could be if made the RIGHT choice! But then if not I’m surely doomed as doomed can be. What ever will I do?

I do want to live it like you, CM. I guess that means I also will have to ignore Romans 8, like you?

CM, You wrote: "there is only one spirit __ the book rhst is wrong" Now THAT sounds like a topic for a whole thread. Why don't you start one and go through ALL the RHST "spirit" usages and show why they are wrong. You might also want to include the basis for your theory of there being only one spirit and explain it in detail. *** I'd be particularly interested in how you handle tiny little problems in your theory like these carnal scriptures: Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. Romans 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

Tom Strange, BTW, still another reason I sometimes dodge questions (using the biological “Ignore” feature) is because I must budget my time. I get hit with many, many questions, many more than most posters. Some questions are very insincere and downright insulting, like prosecutorial. I must prioritize my responses and sometimes that means ignoring them or brushing them off with equal prosecutorial zest. It’s so odd that I was castigated so much for implementing the biological “Ignore” feature, yet when the electronic “Ignore” feature became available one of it’s first users was one of the staunches critics of my artistic and righteous dodging. *** You wrote: “Mike, the reason I "have no use" for your essays is because you spend a lot of time typing a lot of words that end up going around in circles and never answering whatever questions were posed. If you ever got around to "straight answers" then maybe I'd be interested, but your history (since you're so keen on citing history) is that you don't ever answer, you dodge and avoid leading me (and others I think) to doubt the sincerity of your discourse.” Some of your observations may have had a bias though. Yes there is a sadly rich history to our past interactions. I think I may be soon outlining that history’s origins before you registered here at GSC, but suffice it to say here that when you would show up on a thread I’d often halt my openness. Prior to your showing up I may have been in an open mood and you simply didn’t see it.

allan w, In the back of RHST in Appendix II, is an outline of 9 major usages of "spirit" and some of those usages heve several more subdivisions. We may need TWO cups of coffee each to read them all and then begin the task of mastering them. *************************************************************** *************************************************************** *************************************************************** *************************************************************** CM, Why do you ask?

doojable, Jesus received that revelation from the Father that a new birth was in the works. That means that the new birth was NOT a secret, and not part of the mystery. It fits in WITH the mystery, but it was not a secret itself. Jesus marveled that Nicodemus did not know about the new birth, so that tells me that at least SOME of the new birth idea was in the OT so that Nicodemus should have known it. If some of the new birth was in the OT and/or Jesus know about it before Pentecost then it was not a secret. The adversary could counterfeit the seed idea from the OT setup of the idea, even before it happened.

doojable, You wrote: "Adam's naming of them was supplemental to all the God did." I agree. The same is true today when we train an animal, especially from birth. God set up the soul life base of the animal, and people can then train that soul. When a soul-man is "worked on" by the adversary it may be like training an animal. I'm not committed to these ideas, just trying to show dmiller that it CAN be worked. When I see an Apparent Contradiction (AC) I keep working it until it fits. With my method a declaration of an Actual Contradiction is never considered. I don't think my idea violates what you said. God built the base, the soul, and Adam formed it's development. Ditto for a seedboy.

Tom Strange, You wrote; “do you think that worship of PFAL (and therefore veepee) might've had something to do with the collapse of TWI?” I do think many overdid their respect for VPW. It was alarming to me in the 70’s so I resisted it, and now I think I overdid THAT. If I had more meek to him I would have solved many more of my personal problems back then by unreservedly applying what he taught. I was often too busy researching out subtle things and I suffered for it. Yes many did focus on Dr’s flesh and worshipped him causing many problems then and later. If they (and I) had focused their great respect not on the man and his flesh but on the revelations God was teaching him and he taught us, I think that would have PREVENTED the collapse of TWI. I even think that overdone respect for the film class’ soundtrack was subtly responsible for much trouble, even the collapse. I know I too failed here. I used to think of the soundtrack as the heart of the ministry and the books as mere souvenirs of the class. If we had shifted our great respect from that soundtrack to the books, like Dr urged for the last ten years of his life, then many problems could have been avoided. *** You wrote: “Most (if not all) of your time is spent promoting PFAL and veepee, usually you only promote God when pressed on the issue” If it’s the case that PFAL is God’s written Word addressed to us grads, then my promotion of written PFAL is promoting God. God’s Word is as much as God as God is God. I do not promote VPW. I respect him, and I think he had some superlative qualities (both good and bad). Now please don’t paste in that “shook the earth” stuff. I’ve OFTEN explained that I think Mickey Mantle also was a resident of the tail ends of many human bell curves (again both good and bad). Thousands and thousands of other humans also have many superlative qualities. I’ve also explained that the “earth shaking” comment of mine was referring to how the earthly senses realm and it’s dominance in our lives was given the ultimate challenge by the spiritual perspective that’s available in the revelations God taught to Dr and Dr taught to us. I didn’t say he shook Planet Earth (with a capital E), but that... I think the way I put it was... “When he walked the earth shook.” When he WALKED! That means when he walked WITH GOD. When ANYONE walks with God the earth (earthly realm) and it’s god do shake. It would be interesting to see someday how many times I explained those comments and how many times the explanations were ignored but the original comments pasted and re-pasted. This is one reason I have been often reluctant to answer some posters at some times. Why waste the time if it wont be listened to? BTW, another reason (there are several) I often have postponed answering someone’s questions is to generate drama and command greater attention on the answer when I finally do answer. It’s a teaching device.... BUT I’M NOT TEACHING... honest! No, I’m just informing, and pointing out ideas, and informing.... but never teaching! That would be wrong... everyone knows THAT! *** Now PLEASE count the number of times I just promoted God in this post without being pressed and reckon it to my account.

Tom Strange, I sense a general movement toward civility here and I want to thank you. It’s catchy. Let’s make it grow, ok? *** Dmiller an I slightly discussed the seed of the serpent being available before God’s seed and I made a proposal involving Adam naming the animals. You asked if I was serious and I responded that the context should have explained my level of seriousness in four places. You asked that i point out those four places, so here goes. My Post #604 to dmiller is the first place where I started answering him. In that post I brought up Adam’s sonship from Luke and I prefaced it thusly: You then wrote: ‘Docvic taught that the adversary can only COPY what God does.’ __ I’d like to see that in writing and see the context. Of course, I remember something like it, but I don’t know where it is in writing. If this is important to you we can find at least one such place, but still it would be better to find them all, like with the law of believing. __ But I’ll proceed with some preliminary data. Then in Post #606 I reminded doojable of this preliminary data caveat with and repeated it again in the following paragraphs with: Doojable, I’m just hashing out some ideas on this. The adversary's copy jobs are never exact. The idea of having a son, with that bond, and the infusion of DNA, and the similar characteristics was there, with Adam, and even with the animals reproduction. Here’s a good possibility: Adam trained the animals with his personality stamped into them. Naming the animals meant far more than getting out a Dymo label maker and putting “Leo” on the lion’s collar. Adam trained them to behave the way he wanted them to behave. Adam put his mark in them. Plus, (and I think this is the best so far): Genesis 3:16 with the idea of the seed of the woman was out there in the open for the adversary to leach off of.” There are the four caveats that indicate I was NOT totally serious about Adam naming the animals being where the adversary got the idea of seeding. *** I am a bit more serious about the stand-alone idea of Adam naming the animals being more than him simply giving them labels. In the Orientalisms class we were taught that the word “name” carries far more meaning in Bible cultures than it does to us in our modern Western culture. When we think of “name” we think of a simple string of characters filling Box#1 on our Driver’s License. In the Orient the word “name” carries with it reputation, credit rating, family ties, personal accomplishments and failures, and manner of behavior. So, what would you say is the significance of Genesis mentioning that Adam named the animals? I see him doing things with the animals just like he tilled the Garden. He made them all in his image, to conform to his will. At that time Adam was the god of this world. Later he transferred that power to the adversary. *** I’m only just now getting into the promised replies. It’s raining and hailing out so I think I’ll finish today.

Raf and dmilller, What about Jesus' teaching of the new birth to Nicodemus? How can it be part of the mystery if it was known before Pentecost? And why must the counterfeit always be after the fact? Why the silence on these two points, detailed more in earlier posts, and the silence on the several proposals I made with them days ago? ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** rascal, I don't get it? Why are you so latched on such a triviality? Yes, I threw that label out without thinking much about who it fit. It was a guess! There could be other reasons for posters harping on the "assumed teacher role" accusation. I just don't get it where you plan to go with this stuff?

CM, You need help. You don't seem to be able to even see what I post, let alone respond to it. Why don't you consult with that friend of yours who advised you that posting here was not good for you? You seem to think that you are immune to interference. I know I'm not. You admitted that you had a problem once before here. You definately are not going to convince me of anything. Your demeanor looks pretty sick to me, and I think you need help. When you are feeling down, and you know that will happen pretty soon, please call that friend you trusted. The high you are feeling now will soon evaporate and knowing that you have friends that love you will be very important. This spiritual mystic mood will soon fail you. It always does. Please think about coming down to a moderate perspective. Close friends can help when the high lets you down. Get on the phone and call a close friend, PLEASE! I'm genuinely concerned for you!

CM, You are unaware of seducing spirits? You are unaware of the counterfeit spirit? You need help, man! Your KJV will tell you that there are spirits that move people in the wrong direction, like thinking that there is only one spirit. ************************************************** ************************************************** ************************************************** ************************************************** Can anyone here help me to help CM on this ?????????? Dang! I hate to see someone hurting and foundering like this, right before our very eyes.

CM, You wrote: “to be carnally minded is death Mike __ Romans 8:6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” I'm all for graduating from the carnal to the spiritual, but it has to be the RIGHT spirit! Moving from the carnal to the wrong spirit is WORSE than death! I’ll do my graduating God’s PFAL way, and not your way. Do you even HAVE a way, or a method? How would you suggest IN DETAIL someone move into the spiritual? Do you have it written down somewhere? Do you think it happens by osmosis, if they just hang around with you? Or abundantly share to you, or salaam you? You can’t just say that PFAL is the wrong way and then not offer a viable alternative. Think it through. What possible reason would I have to drop PFAL and follow your advice? Would you even WANT such a responsibility.

dmiller, There are several things to respond to you in the works, but the simplest item is this. So what did you think of the several possibilities I proposed for your question about seed of the serpent being available before Pentecost? Please keep in mind that a counterfeit is NOT exact. It fails in certain KEY points to match the genuine. The suggestions I made would only be approximations of the new birth, which is characteristic of the counterfeit. Also this counterfeit can come into manifestation even before the genuine comes into manifestation if there is prior knowledge of the genuine before it’s actual appearance. Jesus taught Nicodemus about the new birth well before Pentecost AND he marveled that Nicodemus had no clue of it, indicating that there was enough information in the OT to see it, or at least get a clue of it.

allan w, I want to thank you for you post partially substantiating what I said about OT spirit. Could you please PM me sometime at your leisure? Thanks.