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TO KERUSSO:

You wrote, "Repent of your sins, cease your transgressions, apologize to God for wrongdoing, and turn towards righteousness, and then place your full trust in the atoning work of Christ on the Cross. If you do these things, God will forgive you, your sinful heart will be replaced with a new heart, and you will be reborn into the family of God."

And then Jesus said, "Come follow Me".

And Jesus also said, "Love one another as I have Loved you".

And then on the cross Jesus said, "Father forgive them, they know not what they do".

As you may or may not have noticed there is no * after them, them means them as in ALL.

Also in the above statement of yours, "atoning work of Christ on the Cross".

Do we believe in His atoning work; as in taking all of the sin and sins of mankind upon Himself?

Do we take Jesus seriously when He issued the invitation to, "Come follow Me" and to "take up your cross"?

Do we believe Jesus when He said that there was, "work to be done", "night is coming"?

As in, if and when we, as an individual, say YES that there is a job to be done and that each and everyone of us has whatever job God has chosen for us.

Do we believe that God has a Plan and has had His Plan since before creation and that His Plan is for ALL OF HUMANITY to be with Him in His Kingdom or do we believe that as long as "I" get to the "good place", as I refer to it as the "good enough news"?

The Gospel is called the "GOOD NEWS" not the "good enough news", something to think about!

God wins, satan loses, a tie is unacceptable.

Remember, night is coming but the dawning of the seventh day will also arrive, the day on which God Blest, Rested and made Holy.

Take care, be ready, see you and the rest of humanity in the Kingdom [the new heavens and the new earth].

Sincerely, Thomas Paul Moses Baum.

Dear Rev Anderson

I wish you a wonderful Easter 2008!

Soja John Thaikattil
Sydney, Australia

There were at least 1.5 million in Cambodia alone, DZ, get real maybe 20,000 in the resumption of the campaign of North Viet Nam against the South but once that was over the Hmong people were very nearly wiped out with only a few escaping to the US that alone likely exceeds your 20k in South Viet Nam. I don't know what rag you're getting 20k from but you ought to drop it in the bottom of your bird cage if you've got birds. More people than that died in those leaky boats trying to flee the country.

GaryD, "The Tuskegee patients weren't purpose infected with the syphilis Virus they already had it when they went to the institute. The crime was they they were not given the best available treatment. The experiment began during the tail end of the Hoover Administration and ran through that of Richard Nixon Administration it is doubtful if any of these presidents ever heard of it let alone knowingly signed off on it."
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A syphilis infection, know as a “sexually transmitted disease” can go unnoticed by someone for years. During the initial phase of a syphilis infection, 10-90 days after exposure, the person infected gets a “small painless red pustule” which may appear anywhere on the body but is most often seen in the genital area. It quickly erodes forming a painless, bloodless, ulcer called a “chancre,” exuding a fluid that swarms with the bacteria.

It often goes unnoticed by the person infected so the infection continues to spread to others. Since the red pustule that is painless heals on its own it gives the person the impression that it was nothing serious. About 2 months following the first sign of the pustule the bacteria spreads throughout the body, this is called the 2nd stage of a syphilis infection.

This stage has symptoms that include, tiredness, loss of appetite, nausea, headache, bone and joint pain, rash that does not itch, and flat white sores in the mouth. At this stage the infection is highly contagious and can be spread by kissing. Second stage symptoms can last up until 3 months but may recur over a period of 2 years.

The 3rd stage may not occur for a period of 3-15 years and produces tumors of the liver, eye, lungs, stomach, or reproductive organs. The central nervous system and heart valves may be damaged or destroyed during this stage and can lead to mental or physical disability and premature death.

You are right the Tuskegee patients were already infected with the syphilis bacteria when they went entered into the study at the institute. However, the crime was not that they were not given the “best available treatment” it was that the medication to cure them was withheld in order to see and document the effects of an untreated syphilis infection on an individual.

Syphilis is a bacterial infection not a virus that can be successfully treated with an antibiotic. The type of antibiotic to treat syphilis is penicillin which was available at the time of the Tuskegee study.

During the time of the study public health officials were having a difficult time getting the public to understand the severity of an untreated syphilis infection, hence the basis of the study warranted proof of the effects so people would stop spreading the infection and seek treatment.

The dangers of unknowingly having a syphilis infection are the reason why so many states require a blood test to be done before issuing a marriage license.

"Oh how I wish the congregation my wife and I attend had a minister like Dr. Wright."

You cannot be serious? Racism cannot be tolerated, whatever the color, and a candidate for president that sits under the Pastorate of such a man as Wright should be rejected soundly by the American Public.

GaryD:

Your statement about the number killed in Vietnam after the war is so wrong it boggles the mind. More than 3 million people were killed during the war. Best estimates are that 20,000 were killed after the war. Bad enough but not remotely close to 3 million. You need to do a lot more research on this one.

Lerusso: very well said. Thank you.

Kerrusso you were doing great until you got to Pastor Wright. Liberation Theology is a theology which seeks to justify hatred if it doesn't espouse it out right. No small part of Pastor Wright's sermon as quoted was factually incorrect. One can of course believe if one wishes that 2+2=5 but people ought to be willing and in fact should tell one that one is wrong and supply the correct information. The Government did not create the AIDS virus. The Tuskegee patients weren't purpose infected with the syphilis Virus they already had it when they went to the institute. The crime was they they were not given the best available treatment. The experiment began during the tail end of the Hoover Administration and ran through that of Richard Nixon Administration it is doubtful if any of these presidents ever heard of it let alone knowingly signed off on it. Does that make it less of an atrocity? Of course not. For my money the Doctors involve should have at least done major jail time and the man in charge should have been tried for murder because he murdered those men just as surely as if he put a gun to their head and put a bullet through their brains, and for more money that would have been kinder than what he actually did.

Does that however offer justification for hating a whole race? Of course not. Is it sufficient reason to distrust the efficaccy of government as a solution to our problems? One of many.

Mr James Anderson:

How sure are you about, "I am also sure that Dr. Wright cares deeply about the people to whom he has ministered." He's not just another one of the millions who drag themselves out of bed every morning and go to a boring dead end job is he? He cares? I notice that he does NOT drag himself out of bed every morning and go to a boring dead end job.

When he sells all his earthly possessions and distributes the proceeds to the poor I'll join you in your belief which you present as fact. Until then he's just another employee in God's vineyard which begs the question -which God is it?

http://www.hoax-buster.org/sellyoursoul for the big money goes to God's favored employees for it is them through their sermons that lead the multitudes to Him. And God uses the money the multitudes put on the plate to meet payroll.

Maybe the real God made him say that?

It's Lucifer that supplies the money to fund God's agents so they don't must to drag themselves out of bed every morning and go to a boring dead end job. God is the best job there is. That job is taken so the best job available is being God representative that has some obvious fringe benefits.

The big money with the least amount of sweat goes to those leading the multitudes to hell. Even preaching is work. Only the government has free money accounting for why the ministry has such a great interest in politics. Is Jeremiah looking for a little ATDP, (aid to dependent preachers)? Just as long as the president is born again and God wills it things will be fine, I hope.

Mr. Anderson,

First of all, let me say thank you for your service in the Marine Corps, and assuming you spent time in Vietnam, welcome home, your service is greatly appreciated in whichever capacity you fulfilled.

I am not sure if I agree with your theology, but I am certain I agree with your relief at hearing a message worthy of being disagreed with. The cancer that has invaded our churches of, "I'm ok, you're ok, we're all ok," and the Osteenian message of, "It's nice to be nice to the nice," have severely damaged this nation and our ability to discern truth and things worth fighting for.

George Whitefield, who had several attempts made on his life and constantly was being bombarded by rocks and on one occasion pieces of dead cat, said, "It is a poor sermon which causes no displeasure within the hearer - either with himself or with the preacher." They crucified Christ for saying the things he said; Leonard Ravenhill once said, "Had Christ preached the sort of thing ministers preach today, he would never have been crucified." Ravenhill also said,

"And there's no room for Him in the inn.
He got a bit older, there was no room in His family, His family turned on Him.
He went to the temple, no room in the temple, the temple turned on Him.
And when He died there was no room to bury Him, He died outside of the city.
Well why in God's Name do you expect to be accepted everywhere?
How is it that the world couldn't get on with the holiest Man that ever lived and can get on with you and me?
Are we compromised?"

I'm not saying Wright is right, I haven't heard all of his comments, what I have heard was well within his rights to believe and say, he wasn't slandering anyone, he wasn't provoking hatred against anyone...he broke the most important unwritten law though...he offended someone!

Concerning the offense of the cross, I wrote this last year:

There is a great deal of unbiblical preaching for Christians to share the Gospel in love, peace, and humility, and to not be offensive. ‘We don’t need to offend someone or tell them they’re going to Hell, just tell them 'God loves YOU, Jesus died for YOU.'’ Oh!!! It makes me so mad! I don’t read my Bible as often as a I should, but I don’t fault people for not reading theirs as often as I read mine, as long as they're reading it. But I would think that if my spouse wrote me 66 letters bearing soul, mind, body, and intentions, I would at least glance at them to see what they say. My favorite Bible Verse (not because it’s all lovey-dovey, but because it contains the whole counsel of God) is 2 Timothy 2:24-26 which instructs us to share the Gospel in love, peace, and humility, but it says exactly the opposite of not being offensive.

When you preach the truth to the unregenerate, you are preaching directly in opposition to their nature, a nature which they’ve grown to love and one which defines them; telling them they’re wrong is going to be offensive. If that wasn’t bad enough, verse 26 tells us we’re arguing with agents of satan himself.

Paul never intended for us to be inoffensive, another of my favorite verses says "For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles." (1 Cor 1:22-23)

Earlier in his ministry he called preaching, "The offense of the cross." (Gal 5:11)

The Cross is offensive, it attacks your self-righteousness, sets your conscience ablaze, and demands that you repent or perish.

In order to rescue your soul from the doom of Hell, your God had to subject Himself to the broken and diseased world of earth, where He lived a perfect example of faith, obedience, righteousness, and love; but His pointing out of faults was so offensive to the Pharisees that they KILLED Him for it.

God takes sin very seriously, He counts lust as adultery (Matt 5:28), hatred as murder (1 John 3:15), lying lips are an abomination (Prov 12:22), and all of these will be thrown into the lake of fire. (Rev 21:8)

Our sin was upon Christ at the Cross, He bore our burden in love, He had no burden of His own to carry and carried ours solely so we could be rectified and God could be glorified. By me preaching to you that Christ carried your sin to the Cross, then that implies that you have sin, and not only so, but a great deal of it. Christ paid for your sin in His own life's blood, so that where sin increases, grace abounds all the more.

Repent of your sins, cease your transgressions, apologize to God for wrongdoing, and turn towards righteousness, and then place your full trust in the atoning work of Christ on the Cross. If you do these things, God will forgive you, your sinful heart will be replaced with a new heart, and you will be reborn into the family of God. Not because you are a good person, but because you are a bad person whose sins have already been to the Cross, and you have been forgiven by a good God.

Yet when we left Viet Nam more people were killed than in the entire war and more than a million more displaced.

We were however about to create unending misery for the poor and debase the working man and have now succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. There is now almost no measure by which the poor are in general not worse off than they were before LBJ began his misbegotten Great Society programs.