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"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God." [Jam 1:19-20]

"If he takes up rashly a meaning which the author whom he is reading did not intend, he often falls in with other statements which he cannot harmonize with this meaning. And if he admits that these statements are true and certain, then it follows that the meaning he had put upon the former passage cannot be the true one ... Faith will totter if the authority of Scripture begin to shake. And then, if faith totter, love itself will grow cold. For if a man has fallen from faith, he must necessarily also fall from love; for he cannot love what he does not believe to exist." (St. Augustine, On Christian Doctine, Book 1, Ch. 37, 397 AD)

"Since it is our duty fully to enjoy the truth which lives unchangeably, and since the triune God takes counsel in this truth for the things which He has made, the soul must be purified that it may have power to perceive that light, and to rest in it when it is perceived. And let us look upon this purification as a kind of journey or voyage to our native land. For it is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits." (St. Augustine, On Christian Doctine, Book 1, Ch. 10, 397 AD)

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Re: Please Help! I Need a Positive Explanation of Our Faith

[[[ The advice of divorced & remarried parents who are still sleeping in the same bed to their children to have respect for marriage by abstaining until the wedding tends to fall upon deaf ears. I’m not being judgmental, because many divorced & remarried were only taught the RELIGION of Jesus Christ. That’s just the way it is with fragile-minded children. The children are the most vulnerable ones to the modeling theory, social behavior that is based upon words and actions of others around them. According to our faith, once you cross over the Creator’s precise sociology into the imprecise sociology of Christianity, it opens the door to a thing called “moral relativism,” which I won’t get into here. Please see our website for more details on that. “Moral relativism” is essentially Darwinism in reverse, the science of how man evolves to animal by drifting away from the Creator. Unlike Darwin’s evolutionary science, ours contains the missing pieces. Hopefully, it is obvious by now how we arrived at the name of our faith, “Children of The Way.” Since marriage is the “great” mystery of our faith, because it symbolizes Christ’s unbreakable everlasting covenant relationship with us, we cannot worship in separate church buildings from the Christians. That goes against the very core of the Creator’s precise sociology. All we can do is to be as compassionate, patient, gentle, and humble as we possibly can as we offer to help our pastors burdened with the pressure and to teach the flock in need of understanding our faith. We want to try to help every person make it to the Creator’s eternal Utopian society through His only begotten Son Jesus Christ; but if we’re not very careful with how we teach the gospel, the ones in need of understanding the Creator’s precise sociology will harden their hearts to our science. Beacon, I applaud you for being cautious on how you teach and I hope this helps you. For the rest of you still with me, you can go to an overall ministerial perspective at our website, www.childrenoftheway.org. When you go there, please play Daniel’s very short card game and then use the road guide “Gabriel.” The angel that spoke to Daniel was the final clincher for me to know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and “The Way” to go in life. I am so excited that I have to keep silencing the child inside me that keeps asking mom & dad, “Are we there yet?”

I’m still trying to be anonymous because this is too important for any human to receive credit for or to receive punishment for. Please just test the spirit (1Jo 4:1) that planted the idea of a precisely defined sociology from the Creator into our brains. All credit or punishment goes to the source of that spirit. In order to remain anonymous, I am sending this message to the one in Alabama who has never met me in person by using an anonymous email and asking him to cut and paste this message into our forum and delete the email. Thank you so much for listening, and I hope that we are explaining things so that you can understand them.

I pray that the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ will grow from our spirit out here in New Mexico to yours. ]]]

Wow! I didn't know how long winded you were until I kept hitting that 5000 character limit. LOL.

Re: Please Help! I Need a Positive Explanation of Our Faith

OK. I'm sorry. That was dumb.

I've hooked this message from New Mexico into our page "The Separation". Readers will now be able to choose which perspective to read from: a separation from Atheism or a separation from Christianity. The only thing I took out was the small paragraph concerning anonymity (sp?). The only thing I added was a statement regarding the human dignity of the ones who had evolved into animals. In our faith, the human dignity of every human is equal and never goes away, even when they evolve into an animal. We must never forget that (I was concerned with the reader of this message forgetting and not the author).

Beacon, if you want to explain your faith in a more uplifting light (ie. coming from the Atheism perspective) and bypass the card game and all the questioning, then here is the direct link to use:

http://www.childrenoftheway.org/theseparation2.html

God bless you brother (or sister?).

Re: Please Help! I Need a Positive Explanation of Our Faith

Hey Beacon, I just got a testimony that takes the cake! Anybody who is trying to experience a feeling inside them that makes an orgasm feel like a “hellish experience in comparison” is either insane or somebody worth listening to. LOL. It’s too bad this person wasn’t around to lift the spirits of the one who left the team hanging his head.

This testimony comes from a Catholic Child of The Way. I hesitate to say ex-Catholic, because we as Children of The Way are committed to continue worshipping Jesus Christ inside the Christian churches we’ve established human relationships in since the core of our belief is that marriage is an inseparable lifelong covenant bond between man and woman that symbolizes Christ’s unbreakable lifelong covenant bond of love for each and every person inside a church (Eph 5:32). I will add to our website the separation from Christianity from the perspective of this Catholic, who Children of The Way also consider to be Christians because of the words we heard coming out of their mouths while we were sitting in their pews putting the Catholic version of the “daily sacrifice,” which they call “mass,” under Daniel’s microscope (Dan 8:12-14).

God bless you,
Your brother in The Way,
Little Daniel