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To: Jamey who wrote (25870)	6/15/1999 11:44:00 PM
From: Barnabus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Hello, Brightstar! Appreciated the fine post to Sam. I attended a PHD's class on creation one time and he was a Bible believing lecturer. He has lectured at many of our universities on invitation and several times he has gotten standing ovations when he is through by formerly skeptical students. They crowd around him after classes and ask him in essence: "How come the genesis account isn't given to us in its uncannily correct order." Wishing you the traditional sensational dispensational balance of the week. God's phenomenal grace continues to work in your life.

To: Jamey who wrote (25870)	6/16/1999 6:43:00 AM
From: Sam Ferguson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 39621

No James I am not fishing. I am attempting to get the misinformed to stop the lie about the bible being the word of God. <<Life is about growth and maturity through adversity and conflict within ourselves.>> James I agree, however, I do not believe one percent of humanity really knows our true nature of self. I know how strongly you believe in Paul's teaching but you entirely miss his gospel. He plainly tells that the good news is the Christ in you. The conflict in ourselves is our failure to yield our animal instincts to serve the body and ignore the Spirit except in times of troubles. <<. We have the opportunity to grow toward the likeness of the perfect man who was the Son of God.>> That is your opinion and not fact. The fact is what Paul told you. The perfect man "IS" the Christ in you. Paul told you plainly,"I preach my gospel and it was not told me by any man." James if you want the truth of this matter make a historical check of Paul. The ancient historian Plutarch mentioned Mithraism in connection with the pirates of Cilicia in Asia Minor encountering the Roman general Pompey in 67 BC. More recently, in 1989 Mithraic scholar David Ulansey wrote a book, The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries, in which he convincingly shows that Mithraism originated in the city of Tarsus in Cilicia. That this is also the home town of the apostle Paul cannot be a coincidence. Paul admits that he did not know Jesus during Jesus' lifetime. He also says that his gospel was not taught to him by any man (Galatians 1:11-12). All of Paul's theology is based on his own revelations, or visions. Like dreams, visions or hallucinations do not come from nowhere, but reveal what is already in a person's subconscious. It is very likely that the source of most of Paul's visions, and therefore most of his theology, is to be found in Mithraism. That we find Jesus at the Last Supper saying more or less the same thing Paul said to the Corinthians many years later is another example of the church modifying the gospels to incorporate the theology of Paul, which eventually won out over the theology of Jesus' original disciples.