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Gnosticism and sneaky wording

Dante and Virgil observe the false counsellors, Canto XXVI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)#/media/File:Gustave_Dore_Inferno25.jpg Accessed online on 2018 February 13

There is a difference between a claim being true and stating that if someone does not believe a claim is true upon the moment of death they will go to Hell after they die.  Below is a list of claims that are not equivalent to one another however people often confuse the types of claims.  I give many examples below.  There are also different definitions of the word believe.  Changing around the definition of the word believe can be used to make people afraid of going to Hell for accessing the wrong information and changing what claims they believe.  Consider the adjectives, verbs, prepositions, articles and any other qualifying words and phrases next to the word believe when you read verses in the Bible also consider the tense the word believe is conjugated into and the fact that the Bible is translated from another language if and when you read it in English so as not to fall for these kinds of traps.

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UBF should have protected but disputed speech on campus

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Image accessed online 2018 February 11

If my memory is correct the Pastor made a very bad decision that nearly resulted in the group losing it’s club status on campus although I thought they might be going to be banned from campus at the time.  I was not attending group meetings at this time but heard about it from a third party.  I wrote this article on my opinion of banning UBF from campuses at that time.  I am tempted to say my views on marriage by faith were naive then based on my writing but I also wrote an article refuting it and I think I simply did not put as much nuance as I should have and should have included the word “fraud,” in describing marriage by faith.  At the time I remember telling someone they should openly put on their recruitment literature and websites, “we do arranged marriages and do not allow dating if you join our group,” and then I would be OK with what they were doing provided they give that and certain other information up front.  I do not know what part 2 was going to be.

The article is below.  I wrote it in 2015 and edited it in 2018 February

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I can be greater than Samuel Lee if I do not copy him

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When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?”

“Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied.

10 “You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not.”

11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heavenin a whirlwind.

2 Kings 9:11 NIV

Accessed online on 2018 February 10

 

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Why courtship is fundamentally flawed

 

Image accessed on 2018 February 9 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dates_on_date_palm.jpg

There was much talk of courtship being ok but dating being bad at my Chapter shortly before I leftI.  Ironically someone was rebuked for finding a girlfriend even though they told me courting was ok.  They were into I kissed dating goodbye, by Joshua Harris and said Billy Graham courted his wife.  Here is a good article about what is wrong with courtship by someone else.  And another two articles about the author of the book repenting that is having a change of mind.

Why Courtship is Fundamentally Flawed

“http://www.thomasumstattd.com/2014/08/courtship-fundamentally-flawed/”

https://www.christianpost.com/news/abstinence-author-pastor-joshua-harris-apologizes-for-telling-christians-not-to-date-in-i-kissed-dating-goodbye-168650/

https://www.npr.org/2016/07/10/485432485/former-evangelical-pastor-rethinks-his-approach-to-courtshipI

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Kissed_Dating_Goodby

Site News Update MUST READ!!!

To the users/subscribers to UBfriends:

I have uploaded two posts today and a site news update. Unfortunately the users/subscribers including myself didn’t receive email notifications that the posts have been upload. I found out by browsing the site. (I do this daily)

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