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Date Posted: 23:10:30 12/23/11 Fri
Author: Lois
Subject: Re: George, check it out
In reply to: George 's message, "Re: George, check it out" on 20:05:44 12/23/11 Fri

>Lois, can you clue me in on what you find to be
>important on p4?
>
>All I see is a conventional argument between a liberal
>and a Christian. The liberal is denigrating the
>scriptures, 2,000 years of Christian orthodoxy, and
>18 years of Restoration doctrine. The Christian is
>defending plain old generic Christianity by explaining
>it "for dummies." There is nothing unusual about this.
>Virtually every discussion between atheists and
>believers, liberals and Christians, evolutionists and
>creationists, abortionists and prolifers goes
>something just like that.
>
>But a liberal saying the scripture is little better
>than bathroom tissue as far as spiritual guidance is
>concerned, or a Christian taking issue with that
>statement is too common to raise eyebrows. As John
>Hamilton (as Perry White)said, "When dog bites man,
>that's not news! When man bites dog,
>that's news."
>
>When an apostate disses the Bible and says that he has
>his own private hotline to a Jesus who contradicts the
>Jesus of the Bible, that's not news. In the Community
>of Christ hierarchy alone, there are about fifteen of
>them.
>
>George

George,

Oh, it is nothing new, except that I consider it evidence of the c-not-of-c misrepresentation of the their claim that they are using "spiritual discernment" on the issue of whether to marry and ordain homosexuals in the church. I maintain that they made up their minds a long time ago.

It is the age of the internet and with some people blabbing all over it is harder to keep already determined agendas secret. Not like when they could claim that Richard Price was mistaken, lying, or perhaps paranoid, etc. Now the evidence is all over the internet. Links get redirected, etc. I suspected something of that nature the other day when that link absolutely would not come up.

Lois

PAPER #5,The First Presidency (of Community of Christ), January 9, 1979, 4:15 p.m.
COPING WITH CONFLICTING MESSAGES
It seems that it is difficult for persons who feel compelled to express their divergent views to discriminate between the lawful powers given to the First Presidency for the sake of the church and the privilege they have as individual members of the church to express their point of view. There certainly must be opportunity to express dissent and dissatisfaction and this should be done directly with the officer or officers involved. The First Presidency are willing to give a hearing to responsible criticism. Members do not have a right, however to directly circularize the church with a point of view or style which conflicts with the program emphasis being presented to the church.

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Re: George, check it out -- George, 08:37:31 12/24/11 Sat