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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Any FReeper who wants to read the full Washington Post article that identifies Michael Rood as a leader of The Way International cult (referenced in the post above):

You can purchase the full article from this link.

1,006 posted on 07/24/2017 9:07:12 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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    **Rood has not denounced the teachings and beliefs he held when he was a follower of The Way International (TWI). His biography claims that he is an "ordained nondenominational Christian minister," but does not state that it is The Way Int. which ordained him. By implying that this ordination gives him credibility, and that the ordaining body is credible, he misrepresents his background. TWI taught many nonChristian teachings, including obedience to universal laws (the "laws" of prosperity, believing, etc), that Jesus Christ was a perfect man but not human and divine, that the Holy Spirit is not a personal being, that the filling of the Holy Spirit just amounts to people regaining their own spirit which was lost at the Fall, that many verses of the Bible are untrustworthy because they were altered hundreds of years after they were written, and so forth.

I seem to recall the arguments against the doctrine of the Trinity, the existence of the Holy Spirit who is God and the deity of Jesus Christ. Heck, even the name of Jesus Christ is criticized!

As to the insistence that NOWHERE in Scripture is it said we are saved by God's grace, they must ignore Acts 15:10,11 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

1,031 posted on 07/24/2017 5:14:02 PM PDT by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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