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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (25179)	4/23/1999 10:02:00 AM
From: O'Hara	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

†..Good morning Emile. I believe that equal time is called for..† And please give your wife my best....I discern she is a special lady. ><>...The Conspiracy to Silence the Son Of God...><> "Christiaity is now besieged by one of the most powerful heresies it has faced in 2000 years. This heresy is subtle because it assumes there can be no such thing as heresy. It deconstructs and reconstructs not only the church and the Bible, but Jesus Himself! Of course, gnostics,docetists,ebionites, and others in the early church redefined the person and nature of Christ. More recently, higher critics,neoorthodox theologians, and new agers have tried to do the same. The terrifying difference today is that current heritics-a minority of radical scholars who call themselves the Jesus Seminar-receive unprecedented media coverage. Over the past decade they have capitalized on the media's quest for controversy, and the public's hunger for novelty to market their "findings" in popularized books and articles. In this postmodern, post-Christian world, most people are too biblically illiterate to discern the errors in the work of the Seminar's scholars. Today the average person picks up a copy of Time magazine to learn that the Jesus of the gospels is a fiction. At least that is what these scholars keep telling us in print, over the airways, and even on the internet. The watershed question for our day remains the one that Jesus Himself asked: Who do you say I am?....On the answer to this question hangs the survival to our faith and our church. If we do not answer it firmly and immediately, believers and potential believers may suffer fromt he public dissection and deconstruction of Jesus and the Gospel. The Jesus Seminar has stretched our Lord on the rack,trying to prove Him merely human. Now is the time for all Christians, not just apologists and scholars, to rally to the Lord's side. In the supposed five gospels( the fifth is the very questionable gospel of Thomas), Robert Funk and Roy Hoover conclude that Jesus was nothing more than a laconic sage, slow to speech, a person of few words, one who was self-effacing, modest and unostentatious. This type of holy man does not initiate cures or exorcisms. Accordingly, the real Jesus who appears in the gospels is often to give help, even when asked...He does not initiate debates or controversies. In fact, the rare events in which Jesus begins the argument are thought to be creations of the storyteller." In light of this image of Jesus, they say, "it is difficult to imagine Jesus making claims for Himself- I am the Son of God, I am the expected one, the Annointed- unless, of course he thought that nothing he said applied to himself" All of the above was taken from a book titled ..."The Conspiracy to Silence the Son of God", written by Tal Brooke We live in an age of fierce and utter contempt for Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, and his followers and defenders are no less hated. We must therefore stand with the Gospel armour in place....and all the glory be to God! I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ it is the power of God unto salvation for everyone. Message 6558366 Shalom...><>

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (25179)	4/23/1999 10:07:00 AM
From: O'Hara	Respond to of 39621

><>..The Conspiracy to Silence the Son of God..><> Anatomy of a lesser God The watchtower teaches that Jesus is a mere angel-the first being God created in the universe. The Watchtower magazine puts it,"there is scriptural evidence for concluding that Michael was the name of Jesus Christ before he left heaven(to become a man) and after his return(to heave following his resurrection). The witnesses say that Michael (Jesus) conceivably existed in his prehuman state for billions of years. At the appointed time, he was born on earth as a human being ceasing his existence as a angel.They say Michael willingly gave up his existence as a spirit creature(angel) when his life-force was transferred into Mary's womb by Jehovah. This was not an incarnation (God in the flesh). Rather Jesus became a perfect human being-nothing more and nothing less. He was equal in every way to Adam prior to the fall. In keeping with this the Watchtower Society teaches that Jesus was not worshiped in the same sense that the Father was."It is unscriptural for worshipers of the living and true God to render worship to the son of God, Jesus Christ." When Jesus died on the stake(not a cross), He allegedly became non-exixtent and was raised (or, more accurately, recreated) three days later as a spirit creature (that is, as Michael the Archangel). A physical resurrection did not occur. "We deny that he was raised in the flesh, and challenge any statement to that effect as being unscriptural" All of the above was taken from the book.."The conspiracy to Silence the Son of God", written by Tal Brooke All those passages and more to come, are just the tip of an enormous, abominable iceberg! See also: Message 6558366 I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ it is the power of God unto salvation for everyone. Shalom...><>