Quran 112:3 says, "He begets not, nor is He begotten".
I shall say to them regarding the Bible, "God's word corrupts not, nor is it corrupted".
Re-freezing of melting snow is called "Black Ice". Which is a big problem since it is harder to remove, unlike th fluffy snow.
Learned form NY1.
As Bloomberg gave a conference on the snow storm, a very heavy one I've ever seen, though not too severe, I noticed the mayor appeared to have a cold. Still he has to make the announcement himself...the rich mayor that gets paid $1 as salary.
And I thought about the many weaklings at church"es" who act like the end of the world when they had a little fever.
As I watched the conference...
"Mayor...you sounded a little sick..."
"uh...let's talk about the snow storm, I think that's what's really important here..."
I've seen so many fellowships run off topic during Bible Studies because of little things like that.
First it was the Neanderthals, now the Denisovans? Pre-humans? That's unscientific. I'd rather use the term "humanoid".
I remember one day, in September (prior to Stephen Tong's Rally), as I walked home from work on 7th Ave. near 27th, I exchanged flyers (well, more of a reluctant namecard from him) with a fellow on the street who was inviting pedestrians to a fellowship in some building.
I could tell, that he easily disregards churches or even rallies other than his own. That speaks a lot of itself already.
I looked into information later about his church, the International Christian Church, or to be more locally: Empire City ICC, to understand that how problematic this church is.
A cult? More like extremist. But definitely as problematic as the charismatics, if not worse. The sermons are like in a zoo. It is said that they want to give more authority to New Testament than Old, thus erroneously disregard much content of the Old Testament. Their founder Kip McKean (Who left another group he founded: ICOC = International Churches of Christ) seems to have domestic (daughter leaving the church), exclusivism, cult accused and other problems of his own.
I have imagined such briefly, and now am proven my prediction that Paul Washer had truly said that that he despised altar call/"invitation", calling it psychological manipulation.
Regarding Billy Graham statement "even with the most famous evangelist in the world said that even 5% of all the people who made decisions at my meetings were saved, I would be pleased...", this time, unlike other times where he quoted the same "5%" Billy Graham quote elsewhere, Washer commented: "Why didn't he tell them that?". Thus, I am reminded to wander once again where and when did Billy Graham said that?
Altar call (呼召) is obviously a big thing at the end of Evangelical rally. Even in Dr. Stephen Tong's. Though I highly doubt that it's confined within scriptural context of Romans 10, 12:1. "Call upon the name of the Lord", "Living Sacrifice"...
Psychological manipulation? Not necessary. Although, I have been troubled by such as long as I could remember about altar call, I am sure it is a way of public testimony for those who could immediately make firm decisions, instead of hesitating back and forth, as if counting the cost of construction endlessly. Of course, at the same time, such call never excludes the unfaithful ones, the crowd seekers. Nor is such call always done by faithful God fearing preachers.
If I were to defend the status of altar call, in addition to the public offering practice in the Old Testament and a couple of other scriptures, I would state that "silent call" is just as neutral if not imperfect. For it is better to have a more open fellowship than secret givers in the case of witnessing.
Always give the benefit of doubt first, skepticism later when necessary.
I sure would love to have this discussion with Dr. Tong.
A good way to disable the popup, Start->Run/type->autoplay->scroll down to iphone-> Take no action.
Circumzenithal arc: Refracted upside down rainbow, "a smile in the sky", from horizontally oriented ice crystals.
Perhaps it is because of the Koreans encouter I face almost everyday.
The Unification Church members have been, to my experience, more initiative than any other christian cults, if not less than the Mormons.
After coming across a few video clilps on Youtube about the Moon empire, I find it important to do some extensive research on this in order to build my ability to confront these poor souls.
Next is the Mormons.
Oven time at home tops at 7 mins 35 secs at 450F.
But I think it's same timing for all temperature.
