How Should We Relate to Trinitarians (LONG Article Included)

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>>>>> "Mark" == Mark W Bassett <mbasset@pcnet.com> writes:

    Mark> On Thu, 12 Oct 1995 05:34:34 -0500, you wrote:
    >> Robert,
    >> 
    >> One question:
    >> 
    >> If God always had a church (and I agree that he did) and He did
    >> everything through it, then why did those that started the UPC
    >> receive the experience of the Holy Ghost at the hands of
    >> trinitarians and >not from this "church" you speak of? Were
    >> they busy that day?

    Mark> Somewhere in the US there were people baptizing right, yes,
    Mark> but where were they? They could have been embroiled in an
    Mark> internet argument that day, or, just plain busy, as you
    Mark> said.

Because such "internet arguments", or 'flame wars' as they are more
conventionally called in the vernacular of cyberspace, do indeed
inevitably seem to arise, and because we are using an electronic
medium that does indeed span the entire world, sociologists have begun
to study the virtual society that this new medium has created.  The
classic text on the sociology of internet is:

"Flame Wars, the discourse of cyberculture".  Mark Dery, ed.  Duke
University Press, 1994.

Mind you, this is a secular book, and has some of the usual secular
wording that we would rather see re-worded, but some of the essays in
this collection are extremely relevant.  Although I certainly do not
recommend this book to saints in general, I do especially recommend
that all ministers involved in this glorious truth and also familiar
with the internet read the essay "Techgnosis, magic, memory, and the
angels of information" by Erik Davis.  

This essay is downright bone chilling in the way it links the internet
and the culture that it has made possible with the heretical practices
of Gnosticism that arose during the 400 silent years, and which are a
major component in New Age teachings today.  

If you also have already read "The externalization of the heirarchy"
by Alice Bailey, Lucis Press, London, 1957, (again recommend for
ministers, but not necessarily for saints) which is a collection of
writings by the high priestess and prophetess of the New Age during
the time before and after WW2, especially her plan for education and
communication, you should be able to discern the times with alarming
clarity:

 3 And <2532> in the morning <4404>, [It will be] foul weather <5494>
to day <4594>: for <1063> the sky <3772> is red <4449> (5719) and
lowring <4768> (5723). O [ye] hypocrites <5273>, ye can <1097> (5719)
discern <1252> (5721) <3303> the face <4383> of the sky <3772>; but
<1161> can ye <1410> (5736) not <3756> [discern] the signs <4592> of
the times <2540>?

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