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Jeremy
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Username: Jeremy
Post Number: 1927
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 3:07 pm: |     |
River,
The word used for "man" and "men" in 2 Peter 1:21 is "anthropos" and simply means a human being. However, as far as we know none of the Bible writers were female.
The Bible does mention prophetesses, in both the Old and New Testaments. However, in the New Testamant it says, "But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet." (1 Timothy 2:12 NASB.)
Also, none of the prophetesses mentioned in the Bible wrote Scripture themselves.
Jeremy
(Message edited by Jeremy on July 12, 2007) |
River
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Username: River
Post Number: 1038
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 3:37 pm: | |
Thank you Jeremy for clearing that up for me,I thought that might be the case with the word.
River |
Bigal
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Username: Bigal
Post Number: 70
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 4:41 pm: | |
Looks Like Ted is a prophet in his own mind and certainly with his own interpretation. I once read that internet scammers can be detected by being poor spellers. Ted, you fail for poor english.
If Adventism did not fry his brain, drugs surely must have.
By the way, if I spell poorly and have poor grammer I am in no way implying that I am Ted or a prophet or an internet scammer.
Alan |
River
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Username: River
Post Number: 1040
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 5:26 pm: | |
Me neether Alen, I thank the Possum meet finly got ma braan pan.
an them bedbugs have done ther part, I keep tellin my wife we oughta move to a duble wide but my wife said this trailer wouldn't fit into a duble wide.
sombidy profeceyed up ta the church the other week that miss Givin's wuz gonna have a nine pounder but shoot, thet pig couldn'ta waihed more than three and a half pounds.
We had somebody named Ted up to air church one time, her Pap said he was gonna change her name to Fred but his wife threatened him with a arn skillet and thet sure qwitened him down a mite.
River |
Jeremy
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Username: Jeremy
Post Number: 1928
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 5:57 pm: | |
Folks, this "ted" guy is proof of what some of us have been trying to say: it is possible to be both insane and demonic. According to the front page of his site, this guy communicates with demons (of course he doesn't call them that), just like EGW did--who he reveres. Also, both him and EGW wrote long rambling, run-on sentences that made no sense. The difference is that EGW's sentences were "fixed" by her staff (most of the time, at least) to at least sort of make sense (well, not really, but you know what I mean). If you look at a lot of her original sentences in her original handwriting, they did not make sense at all. Of course, she was "saner" mentally in general than this guy, and was much more subtle/clever/deceptive.
Jeremy
(Message edited by Jeremy on July 12, 2007) |
River
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Username: River
Post Number: 1041
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 6:49 pm: | |
I actually think that this is a meth addict. |
Colleentinker
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Username: Colleentinker
Post Number: 6281
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 9:23 pm: | |
River, you could well be right. Too weird, the Ellen White connection...Yep--Adventism is risky for one's mental health! You know, when a person breaks from sincerity, he ultimately breaks from reality.
Yes, mental illness can go hand-in-hand with demonic activity or drug addiction and delusions. Ted's delusion is obvious. He won't get a large following! Ellen's delusion, however, has a power behind it that's sinister. As Dennis has said, any teaching that keeps a person from knowing and embracing the true gospel is cultic. Such teachings do not come from God, and there is no neutral place in the universe. Col. 1:13 declares that we are born into the domain of darkness, but God transfers us into the kingdom of His beloved Son.
We're either in the domain of darkness, or we're in the Son's kingdom. There are no other options.
Colleen |
Cease_striving
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Username: Cease_striving
Post Number: 5
Registered: 7-2007
| | Posted on Friday, July 13, 2007 - 4:07 am: | |
I agree with all of the previous posts. Ted's writing is confusing and difficult to read--his capitalizations of every other word make the reading process tedious. I felt like I did the day I listened to a recording of Alan Ginsberg reading his poem "Howl." The torment and pain in his soul just poured out of him. He sounded like a madman as he ranted on and on. Class did not end soon enough that day!
Ted is also narcissistic. On his movie list page, he places himself in the movies and believes they are about him. It's just weird.
I am thankful that God does not confuse us.
Cease_Striving
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(Message edited by Cease_Striving on July 13, 2007) |
Reb
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Username: Reb
Post Number: 338
Registered: 5-2007
| | Posted on Friday, July 13, 2007 - 8:23 am: | |
Ted is a textbook case of a paranoid schizophrenic, IMHO.
His incoherent writings have the paranoid delusions and incoherence one would find in the ratings of a paranoid schizophrenic. |
Loneviking
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Username: Loneviking
Post Number: 560
Registered: 7-2000
| | Posted on Sunday, July 15, 2007 - 3:46 pm: | |
2 Peter 1:20,21 just destroys the SDA idea of 'thought inspiration', where man takes 'thoughts' that God gives them and then rewrites them in their own vernacular of the time.
Instead, the text makes clear that the writers of Scripture write as 'the Holy Spirit carries them along'. The writer is an instrument, and not an interpreter of what God wants to convey. Despite SDA claims, God truly IS the author of the Bible. |
Jeremy
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Username: Jeremy
Post Number: 1938
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, July 15, 2007 - 4:00 pm: | |
The next time an SDA tells you that they believe the Bible is the Word of God, ask them: But do you believe that the Bible is the Words of God?
Their usage of the term "Word of God" is completely disingenuous. They should say: "We believe the Bible is the Word of Man and the Thought of God."
Jeremy |
Colleentinker
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Username: Colleentinker
Post Number: 6302
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, July 15, 2007 - 8:52 pm: | |
Loneviking and Jeremy, excellent points. Yes, the "Word of God" is another phrase Adventism uses with a "hidden" meaning.
If we can't trust the words of the Bible, then we have nothing to trust. I'm still in amazement at how God brings His word to life and reveals connections in a continuing way. It never gets old; we cannot plumb the depths of Scripture. This limitless depth is not true of any other literary work.
Colleen |
