USN DAD, Dr E and DEJ,
I have tons of Grace and compassion, even regarding you folks going off and licking your wounds in this intellectual discourse. Your position has been well and good shredded in quadruplicate at every layer.
However, even nonChristian integrity requires you to finish what you started in SOME SORT OF EARNEST DIALGUE SORT OF FASHION.
Certainly Christian integrity requires that.
I realize that millions of pastors do not model it and do not even teach it around the world. But The Scriptures teach it and God requires it. We fail to do it to our hurt and peril.
Hit and run drivers are not Christlike in their doing so.
I'm happy to do my part in whatever way is remotely fitting. Just give me a clue.
Blessings,
THE FOLLOWING IS FROM A DEAR FREEPER SISTER:
my situation, we left virginia and moved to [a central Mid-West State] [several years ago] because of concerns about Y2K. the home/outbuilding we bought, though old, on a double lot in the middle of [a rural village] proper, have the capacity to house as many as necessary if TEOTWAKI occurs. that's still true, though i will need truckloads of wisdom to carry on without [a beloved helper recently graduated].
The prophecies we are getting at Rivers of Joy in [town] is that many will flee TO us and that God's sending REVIVAL and we must be ready to step into leadership roles as He calls us.
but have regularly conversed with a 70-y.o. lady Y who lives in W MO (she's a spinner BTW), and she lives alone on a homestead and raises her own meat and veggies, except for being legalistic about food . . . she is way cool ... and we have discussed the Geo Wash vision and it pertinence to our post-911 world ...
Per Y H, from Jefferson City MO to Warrensburg MO, known as The Heart Of Missouri, we are to be somewhat spared. will copy / paste one email that I haven't deleted:
Dear Sister I think I wrote you about The Vision of Invading Forces in the last year or so. Yes, it's coming. The important thing for you to remember is that the invasion from the north will stop at the Missouri River; the invasion from the west will stop at the MO/KS line; the invasion from the south will stop somewhere down around Springfield, MO.
For some unknown reason, we will not be bothered by the enemy from the east. I would definitely stock up on nonperishable foods, water, and, if you can heat with wood, have a woodburner and some wood on hand. You have a map to my place, but I warn you that I do not use sugar or any refined flour or other food, just the basic, oldfashioned whole foods, also, I use no meat except what I grow myself. You might have trouble with those things. You can also expect earthquakes, one of the reasons for stocking up on water and fuel as those lines will be disrupted.
Pure bull. Is that an invitation for me to trash your silly theories with more bible (none of which you have even REMOTELY responded to yet ??
I thought I would do the Christian thing and bow out to leave you with your false teachings, and thereby not cause you to further lose face. After all, after I had responded to your arguments, such as they were, you came back with nothing more than blind assertions. That's when I decided to quit arguing with you. It's like arguing with a liberal. So if you further correspond with me on this thread I will only respond in kind with blind assertions, as my arguments have already been given and you have seen fit to ignore them.
I find it extremely strange, that someone who wanted me to leave your thread so badly, feels compelled to draw me back in after I have gracefully done so. Well, I am in it for the long haul now, buddy, and the conversation is only going to degenerate from here. You reap what you sow.