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To: Graystone who wrote (11934)3/20/1998 7:49:00 AM
From: Alan Markoff  Respond to of 39621
 
Dear Graystone,
Good points. Unfortunately we are all flawed and to me the cord is compassion. If men were the maker of the cord only it would be sure to break quickly and easily, but I feel confident the Lord is the builder of cords that hold us all together. Am I not to love Jane? Or Emile? I battle with Emile as I said hopefully to shed some light to people as to the root of His scriptural preferences, and Jane has been good to me and I will not repay good with evil (scripture quote)
There have been posts put out to stir the pot often and we are all learning and will stumble along the way but the overall growth is the Lords focus. I desire fraternity with James and you and all that He has made and gave His life for. You do not have to agree with me even though I will continue to share how I feel, see I trust God to be responsible for how people believe more than myself. Sometimes I think many people want to be the Saviour and push Yeshua right out of it. Also, there is so much focus on eternal life as if they are only following Him to get something. To me the gift of salvation is first of all a personal relationship with the Living God and learning what love really is (I am still searching that one) and then eternal life. So we should share with others the relationship made available rather than screaming YOU ARE GOING TO GO TO HELL. Who knows really, we are all helpless to Him when it comes down to it, but if He did not desire to give life graciously would we be here? Does He not have enough against us to stop this mess? Today I saw a new born baby and He is the God of Life and will always be so, no men will make Him into a destroyer by their own fears. I use the name Yeshua because He is personal to me and that is a part of that relationship. He wants to be personal to everyone literally His heart aches for people I can feel it at times. If you do not beleive in satan per se there is a force of undeniable evil in the world to me it is difficult to not see a mind or plan behind it like in Nazi Germany. In my experience like on this thread people can not get along long enough to organize something like that, so the scriptures say these adversaries are at war continuously and that adds to the pressure on the cord. I am sorry if you have been offended by this thread for I certainly have been and understand how shocking it can be and I like the way you always Ask God for that is the answer for everyone. Nancy



To: Graystone who wrote (11934)3/21/1998 4:07:00 AM
From: Graystone  Respond to of 39621
 
Reading Repost, the tale so far...
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Who is a Christian

The Gory Mace
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The Drawn Sword
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The story continues
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To: Graystone who wrote (11934)3/25/1998 3:04:00 AM
From: Graystone  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 39621
 
Sunset
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What Lights the Night

The man in gray neared the end of his vigil. long had he waited. A Christian from the side of the Glade threw a Logos of Light at the man in gray who caught it, laying aside both mace and sword, and lifted it high with his hands. The Light became much clearer. It was in this light that two then formed a new cord, flooding the Glade with Light for all to see.
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A new voice increased the Light even further as a strong clear hymn of praise for the Lord was raised, the cleric in white returned and stood in song and praise, setting aside all his letters of protection, his voice Praised the Lord, showing his heart clear, acknowledging that His Lord was with Him.

The foul band raised an ugly face as Nancy suddenly turned into a thinking plotting reasoning man and threw the barb of reason at the Farmer, the man in gray interfered not, the rational attack cannot sway the religious man, just wound him and make him appear worthless, like dung. The foul blessings flowed, one unto the other. The cleric in black was hammered with the same rational attack, Nancy again shifted between her Love and her Reason, using whatever was required to subdue the Christians who slowly bonded together in front of her, to her dismay. The Farmer attempted to turn and talk to the foul band he viewed as part of the Body, all attacked with every available weapon, reason, Scripture, faithfulness, he stood his ground, his wooden cross before his eyes, clear the Glory. The Old Crone spit and hissed, attempting to instruct her blackguard, the man in gray moved forward and struck the Old Crone three solid blows, a blow for reason, a blow for religion and a blow to knock her back to the ground.
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The Farmer received some sorely needed aid from an uncertain but true Christian man. The dark Robe, blind with the cares of those who are persecuted, began to instruct, not fearing any would gainsay him. His teaching was directed to the Christians. Again the foul band turned on the Farmer being rude and mean, the Christian became even more certain and went to stand beside him and help him. Denominational leaven was thrown at the Christian who supported the Farmer and final blast of Darkness emanated from the blackguard as he threw all reason and sanity aside and stood upon a single small piece of Scripture, attempting to divide and sunder the cord. Again the Farmer was attacked with reason and claims that his spirit was lacking, truly now he must feel like dung.
The cleric in white picked up the fine point of the dark Robes teaching and honed it with his heart to give as an instruction to the Christians and to the non-believers. The band let black blessings flow between them, strengthening and bolstering each other, striking out with reason and rationality, Scripture and lies, neglecting the fact that we are not here to watch James Garrett instruct everybody that God is found in several verses of the Bible, that it is all a Great Mystery hidden, but not from him, or that he and Alan Markoff are rational men. We have come here to stop this bickering and squabbling and to let the Light shine on those who choose to follow. This foul band before you simply claims Christ but they live in a gutter of hate and despair from which they reach out and try to drag down all.