Q1: How will faith and belief help my life in this world?
Q2: Why does God not show himself to people directly when they suffer especially children?
Q3: What proof is there of a better life waiting after this one?
Q4: Why are the LW's right but other religions are wrong?
Q5: Should we all just give up now and wait for the end if the world is going to end soon?
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Question: To: helpdesk@lordswitnesses.com
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 3:32 AM
Subject: the precise day of the first nuclear terrorist bomb
After reviewing your website as to a nuclear bomb hitting Manhattan and changing this date several times because it has not happened.
Have you thought to realize that your bible code is just pure speculation?
If you’re basing this on I Kings 18 as to Elijah having his servant checking for a cloud, keep in mind the context of this scripture was because there had been a famine in the land for years. Elijah killed the Prophets of Baal. And then sent his servant to “go look toward the sea” for evidence of rain. But when Elijah bent to the ground and put his face between his knees, he was praying to GOD for rain, not kissing his but goodbye. This is also referenced in James 5:18 that he was praying for rain.
I believe you are taking this scripture entirely out of context and trying to use it for whatever agenda you have. Again I Kings 18 was a literal event in history. You are grossly taking this scripture out of context to say a nuclear bomb is going to hit New York on a specific date.
Also on your website you give specific dates for the rapture of the church. This is where I know your website is inaccurate and false. I say this because Jesus doesn’t even know when this is going to happen. Only GOD the father knows when the rapture will occur. This won’t be found in any bible code because Jesus is the WORD, and the WORD is the BIBLE. If Jesus doesn’t know when this will happen, it won’t be in any bible code.
You may think I’m just a skeptical lost sinner. This couldn’t be further from the truth. I believe you are misled and are misleading a lot of other people out there, and for that you will have their blood on your hands on the final judgment day.
My question to you, is that with 7 wrong dates now for the nuclear bomb to hit New York, when this doesn’t happen by August 1st, what will your excuse be then? What will you re-calculate to give you a new date to say this will happen, and when it doesn’t happen then what excuse will you give etc. etc. etc?
Sincerely,
Mike Riedman
Answer: Hi Mike,
Please allow me to introduce a concept that appears alien to nearly all Christians and Jews
and Muslims actually. The concept is doctrinal repentance. It is the antithesis of Papal infallibility. Christians must repent from sin, and mistaken actions. We all know that. But no one appears to make allowance for repentance from mistaken interpretations. Such repentance is doctrinal repentance. It is what this church is all about.
Most Christian churches are fossilized and dead the day that they are born, since they formulate their belief statement, their creed, their dogma, on day one, and then falsely claim some kind of divine perfection to that dogma. So the only time serious bible research occurs in that church is before it is set up.
The advantage of such a position is that those churches never look like turkeys as you evidently feel that we do. The disadvantage is that the churches are all dead and therefore false, for Jesus said: Keep on seeking, asking and knocking. And he promised to those who do that it will be found, answered and opened.
So what you are seeing in the trade mark of a true church. Living doctrine, honest admission of mistakes and then doctrinal repentance.
All of our understandings have come from this methodology. Indeed all advances made in any academic subject work in this way. But people throw away logic when they join a church
or study God's book.
So we will adapt our understandings to a new date if we are wrong on August 1st, and if we can see how to do that. If we cannot see how to do that we will discard our 1 Kings 18 interpretation as wrong, if that is our conclusion.
Why do you not permit bible researchers the same latitude as everyone permits academic researchers? In research 9 out of 10 ideas are wrong, but the 10th idea might just be a laser or a microchip or a light bulb.
We are serving God with our whole minds, and God willing, we will continue so to do.
I do not think that you are a skeptical lost sinner. I think you are a skeptical faithful sinner, whereas I am a less
skeptical faithful sinner.
It is true that Elijah prayed for rain (James 5:7) and it rained after 42 months, the scriptures declare it. But the scriptures are not just dead history. They are living prophecy. And all the little details of the behaviour of God's great prophets are not just irrelevant stuffing of a dry bible story. The are prophetic and powerful since the good book says:
12 For the word of God is alive and exerts power and is sharper than any two-edged sword and pierces even to the dividing of soul and spirit, and of joints and [their] marrow, and [is] able to discern thoughts and intentions of [the] heart (Hebrews 4).
Now we do not just state this because we would like it to be true. We have done 227 Greek noun counts of gospel stories to prove it see
www.truebiblecode.com/understanding49.html.
We have sent videos explaining these noun counts to 200 academic statisticians. But few people can accept that the bible might be an academic text book, every bit a perfect as nature itself. They believe that Isaac Newton or that Stephen Hawking can write an academic text book, but they do not believe that God can.
So yes Elijah prayed, but the normal way to do that is to kneel down on your knees and possibly to bend forward with your face to the earth. It is not to stick your head between your knees and kiss your butt goodbye! Let me ask you this question.
Why does the bible describe how Elijah prayed? What use is that in the literal meaning? Do you think God listens more closely if you stick your head between your knees when you pray? And if so why did Jesus never pray like that? Why, when the disciples asked Jesus how to pray did he not say: Well step 1 is to crouch down and to stick your head between your knees?
The physical actions of a prophet have prophetic significance. And that significance is nuclear in our understanding. Perhaps we are wrong about the interpretation, it is possible. But we are not wrong about its greater significance.
Am I making sense?
Blessings
Gordon Ritchie
P.S. 'Concerning that day or hour no one has seen' is the correct literal translation of Matthew 24:36. Check it in a good Greek Interlinear bible. It is not a prohibition on the foreknowledge of Armageddon or the rapture etc. - see www.truebiblecode.com/understanding237.html
Question: helpdesk@lordswitnesses.com
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:26 PM
Subject: get help
I have to say, i find your website absolutely hilarious, never before have I seen anyone make as many wrong predictions and then try to justify how and why they were wrong every time.
You are proof absolute that there is no God because if there was he'd have found someone more competent to interpret his word.
Dru.
Answer: Hi Dru,
I like your reasoning.
You are quite right. It has never happened before in your lifetime in the field of bible research.
But it happens in every other field of research all the time. That is how research progresses.
Edison tried 6,000 filament and light bulb combinations before he produced the physical light bulb. If he, like you, had written off incandescent light at the 8th attempt, then you would probably be sitting in physical darkness right now as well as definitely sitting in spiritual darkness. I come from a race of people who beat the
English at their 8th attempt.
The measure of a true Christian is not the number of his mistakes, but the speed and sincerity of his acceptance of those mistakes and repentance from them. How are we doing so far? Furthermore this is also the measure of any good academic researcher actually. But no one will credit the bible with being an academic text book.
Gord.
Question: helpdesk@lordswitnesses.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: Robert the Bruce!
No offense Gordon but I am beginning to think that you are delusional. Have you consulted with a psychiatrists or psychoanalyst?
Answer: Hi
BethlehemsSong,
Nice to hear from you. But why would my noticing a common factor between Robert the Bruce who tried 8 times to beat the English and succeeded the 8th time and Elijah who tried 8 times to send his attendant to see a cloud and
succeeded the 8th time, make me delusional?
Of course I accept that in claiming to be the last Elijah I open myself up to accusation of being delusional yes. But I claim it as a result of carefully researched scriptural proof. The JWs likewise claim to be the Faithful Slave based upon scripture. Are they delusional as a group? Any Christian who believes he has
authority from God could be accused of being delusional if you do not believe God gives anyone authority. But if God does give authority and you do not believe, then you would be deluded.
Yes the LWs make interpretational mistakes. But we admit them and move on. That is the essence of rationality. Whereas 1 billion
people who follow an infallible pope, who killed Galileo for proposing that the earth went round the Sun are surely
deluded? And 6 million who follow a 'faithful slave' class who will never as a group go wrong according to their doctrine are likewise deluded and brainwashed. The faithful slave joined the UN, they rode the Beast as a part of the Harlot, that was 'going wrong'. We all make mistakes. It is human.
If I do not win this interpretational competition then my credibility as an Elijah would be damaged only if someone else actually wins it. For if no one wins it in this time period then the competition has no greater meaning for today and I have been involved in a wild goose chase with no relevance whatsoever. But I do not believe that 1 Kings 18 has no greater meaning for today. The code shows us that it has two greater meanings, since it has a double designation 'Elijah, the prophet'. And normally these two greater meanings fall one in each of the two presences of the Christ. We are now in his second presence as I assume you are aware. That is why I am still trying to get it right.
But you surely have to accept that when I first wrote to the Watchtower on 2006Iyyar1 (April 29th) the following was the case...
[1] UN had no trouble with its headship over nations and militaries.
[2] Around 50 people were being killed per day in Iraq
[3] There was no ware between Israel and Lebanon
[4] There was no war between Israel and Gaza
[5] The UN has not been bombed by Israel
[6] The UN offices in Beirut had not been attacked by angry Lebanese
[7] Al Quaeda had said they were pretty much ready for their next US terror attack and Bin Laden offered to make peace if the coalition were to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
[8] The evangelicals were not saying that WWIII had begun and that this could be the Great Tribulation and that they
expected things to go nuclear
Today the situation is...
[1] The UN have lost their headship over Israel and are seen as impotent even when their own offices are bombed
[2] Around 100 people per day are being killed in Iraq which is really in a full scale civil war (because only 40 people are killed per day in Lebanon which is
certainly in a war)
[3] Israel and Lebanon are at war.
[4] Israel and Gaza are at war.
[5] Israel has bombed the UN observers out of South Lebanon
[6] The UN offices in Beirut have been attacked by angry Lebanese.
[7] Al Quaeda have said that they will not sit by and watch their Muslim brothers being slaughtered.
[8] The evangelicals are now saying that WWIII may have begun and that this could be the Great Tribulation and that they
expect things to go nuclear.
Now we interpretationally prophesied that the UN would be nuked and that the image of the beast would lose its second head in Tammuz (we thought due to the nuke) and that the day of Jehovah would start and that the Watchtower would be destroyed as a result.
Well the UN has presently lost its headship and that occurred in Tammuz. And the day of Jehovah looks like either it has started or if it starts with a nuclear bomb then it looks close. And Bin Laden is presently having his bluff called by the US. I mean if he has anything in place, now would be the time for him to set it off, so that he can claim to be supporting his
Muslim brothers. [All these were coincidence, the day of Jehovah does not start
until 2008Nisan, and the image of the beast, the UNPBC, did not have any
headship over the UN in 2006Tammuz - ed].
So we are plainly in the ball park here. We just have not got the touch down yet.
I personally did not start all this nuclear warning stuff off in the LWs. Other people in the church wanted me to consider the account of Jonah which I have always hated because it is so depressing. I wanted to continue with my 227 Greek noun counts of the Gospels which prove the code, but which no one makes the effort to follow. But the church was correct. This nuclear information is there. It is just hard to piece it all together.
I think you mistake dogged persistence for delusion!
Blessings
Gordon Ritchie
Lords' Witnesses
Question: helpdesk@lordswitnesses.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 12:38 AM
Subject: Utter Turkeys
What can I say? I find myself on your site from time to time checking the latest wild prediction. I have always been
fascinated by stuff like this.
But you guys look like utter turkeys. You really are gambling with your own credibility, and losing! And in doing so you hurt yourselves. I really don't think the future is man's to know. If God wanted us to know these things would He have encoded these messages so cleverly in the Bible that dedicated Bible scholars cannot even get the dates right? What good is the warning then? Don't you think the warnings would have been as plain as the bible stories, or even to a lesser extent, Revelations? Why so hidden?
Because you guys are chasing shadows. I'm sorry to say. Why not just stick with getting out the message of Salvation? Leave the predictions to the National
Enquirer.
Sorry guys
Sal McWillis
Answer: Hi Sal,
Good question. Why has God made it so hard that we can hardly understand it?
Here is another one.
Why is cancer so difficult to cure that 1/3rd of westerners still die from it?
Answer: In the sweat of your brow you will eat bread.
He sets these tasks at the limit of our intelligence, not beyond our intelligence. Perhaps if a few more people were helping us, we would get there more quickly. But as surely as we have sequenced the genetic code of man, not an easy job, we are fully capable as a race of decoding the bible.
The difference is, thousands of scientists with a budget of billions worked on the former and 21 people with a budget of nothing worked on the latter. The irony is that decoding the bible is far more useful to mankind than decoding our DNA.
The bible is our moral DNA and is our future. Everlasting life comes from the scriptures not gene therapy.
It is not God's fault. It is our fault. Not so much the fault of the LWs, but the focus of the world is wrong. And
I fear that it will take a correct nuclear prediction from us to change it.
You think we look like turkeys because we struggle to get this. And we do. But it is the rest of mankind who watch us struggle and do absolutely nothing to help who are the real turkeys.
Blessings
Gordon Ritchie
Lords' Witnesses
Question: To: helpdesk@lordswitnesses.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 2:09 AM
Subject: your nuke bombs
Hey Gordon!
Get a real life Your Biblical bullshit is so wrong! I was a JW for 25 years They are wrong and so are you The cloud
from the sea was a rain cloud . They're was a drought in the land and it brought rain Where the hell did you get a nuke bomb from? After 8 wrong attempts did you think that you might be wrong?
Answer: Hi Bob,
Yes you describe the literal meaning of the account very well, James tells us that he prayed and then it rained. But1 Kings 18 has a greater meaning that applies today just as Isaiah 2 does in the final part of the days and Acts 2 in the last days.
The bible is a living prophecy book not a dead history book. Who cares how many jars of water Elijah poured over the bull? Who cares how many prophets of Baal danced around the altar? Who cares how many prophets of Jezebel did not dance around the
altar? It is all irrelevant detail unless there is a greater meaning. But Paul tells us that all
scripture is alive and exerts power. So there must be a greater meaning. Furthermore we have established the rules for this greater meaning and
proved by noun counting that a code exists to help us to get that meaning
Yes we might be wrong. We do not believe in Papal infallibility. But the greater meaning is not a prophecy about a rain cloud.
Blessings
Gordon
Question: To: helpdesk@lordswitnesses.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 7:38 PM
Subject: I believe you are FDS 4
Dear Gordon,
I have been following your website for about 18 months now. I've read a lot
of this spiritual food and it has encouraged me many times. I also believe
in the 2008 predictions. They are so accurate, that my reasoning is that it
has to come from Jehovah.
As time goes by, however, I'm having a mixture of fealings over it. The
calculations are impressive, but for Armageddon to happen in 2008, there
still has to happen quite a lot of things. Since time is running out ( less
than a two year countdown) without a big turning-point happening, it seems a
bit unrealistic sometimes, that all these major events, will have to occur
in nearly two years. ( I mean things such as the forming of the great crowd,
the collapse of the watchtower, nuclear warfare, the baptism of hundreds of
millions into the LW's, the destruction of all false religion etc)
I know there's not really a question posted here, but I would still
appreciate some reaction. I would like to know what your thoughts on this
subject are.
Keep up with the good work and thanks in advance from your brother Steven
from Holland!!
Answer: Hi
Stefan,
Well you could be
the first LW in Holland!
Yes it must come from
Jehovah. The true God would not give us all these wonderful understandings and
then raise up another mountain in the final part of the days. The final part of
the days of the Great Tribulation that is.
We have the date of the
end, we have precession of the true churches, we have the reality that the law
was a shadow of, we have all the 24 salvation covenants, we have the bible code
and the 2 noun counts, we have the very beauty and wisdom of much of God's plan
and his law.
Time is running out but
once things go nuclear many people would be amazed if the system can last
another 18 months after that!!!
22 In fact, unless those
days were cut short, no flesh would be saved; but on account of the chosen ones
those days will be cut short (Matthew 24).
The days being cut short
are the days of the Great Tribulation. They are cut short not from the
Armageddon end, which is a fixed date, being 6,000 years after Adam's sin. But
they can be cut short from the 2004Elul14 end. The Great Tribulation does not become really great
until 2007Heshvan6, the start of the last year before the rapture [corrected].
Believe me once that day
starts, we will wish it hadn't! If things had gone nuclear in
2004Elul, we would all be dead by now and no flesh would then be saved. God has
done us a favour in cutting short the length of the
Great Tribulation.
Blessings
Gordon
Question: From: Mike Stortz
To: helpdesk@lordswitnesses.com
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 5:01 PM
Subject: Your Predictions
As of this writing, you have made eleven failed predictions. Is there an upper limit on the number of predictions that you plan to make?
I assume that you feel that even after eleven failed predictions, if you get it right on the twelfth, you will be due some credit. If, on the other hand, you are not correct until the twentieth, or one hundredth prediction, would you still feel that your work was valid?
===Mike
Answer: On 8/28/06, The Lord's Witnesses <helpdesk@lordswitnesses.com> wrote:
Hi Mike,
Firstly any sincere work for God is valid in the sense that it is an expression of faith and it is following the commandments of Jesus to keep on seeking etc. Secondly research is not about counting mistakes, it is about learning from them.
The chances of predicting the date and location of the first nuclear terrorist bomb correctly must be lower than 1 in 20,000. Many people think it will never happen at all. But if you say well there is a 50% chance of it happening somewhere in the world in the next 5 years, which is a fairly radical assessment in security terms, then the chances of getting the date right are 1 in 4,000. If you say that the chances of the UN in Manhattan being the target are 1 in 10, then the chance of us getting both the place and the date is 1 in 40,000.
So if we were to make 1000 mistakes and get it right on attempt 1001 we would still have done something with a probability of 1 in 40 which would mean that there is a 97.5% chance that is was not a fluke.
People cannot complain that our ideas are preposterous (not that you have) and then say if you get enough attempts you will get it anyway. What we are doing is the equivalent of prophesying the number of grains of sand in a Jam Jar. If we get both the place and the date right even with 100 attempts we have pulled off a 1 in 400 shot. That would mean there is a 99.75% chance that there is a God the bible is in a code and we have decoded it. But I can guarantee, than very few people will see it like that. People are great at judging track records or status or packaging, but hopeless at judging content.
But despite our crummy track record so far, we do not make predictions for the hell of it. If we run out of options we will say, that we have run out of options and we have a fundamental flaw in this understanding which we are unable to fix. That will almost certainly impact other understandings we have. But incredibly at this point we are not in that position despite many many interlocking interpretations.
But I run a software company when I am not decoding the bible, and our software had 900 bugs in it. all of which we have fixed. In fact we give a software bug guarantee. If you find a bug we will fix it or refund you, if we cannot. Microsoft does not do that. Code has bugs. Microsoft still has loads of them. Windows NT took 1500 builds before it reached service pack 1.
If we get this date right it means all our lines of code, all our scriptural
interpretations that this thing is built on are correct. That is a tall order. But we have done it before and we will do it again, God willing.
I nearly threw my Doctorate program in the bin after 2 weeks of watching it crash on the mainframe. Then I discovered a missing comma. I put the comma in and it worked beautifully. In this case we have found that one of the key chronological understandings of the church, the date of my sanctification and the date of the making of the second new covenant which I claim to mediate, was wrong. We found that from the 11th mistake. That mistake lead us to a much better understanding of how to celebrate this covenant, in fact it is the greater festival of booths. When you learn something that is an obvious advance in church understanding from a mistake you are getting somewhere.
Blessings
Gordon Ritchie
Lords' Witnesses
Question: To: helpdesk@lordswitnesses.com
To: The Lord's Witnesses
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: Your Predictions
Gordon,
I'm a software developer, too, so I know the frustration of which you speak. I have learned not to to say "the software can't possibly be doing that" when reading bug reports.
In programming, we don't get an 'E' for Effort, though, and I don't agree that "any sincere work for God is valid". There's been way too much of that kind of thing through history. What is the road to Hell paved with?
You are correct that even if it were to take you 1,000 attempts, it would still be a statistical feat to predict a specific time and place for such an attack, although I will note that not all targets are equally probable... some Walmart in Ohio is much less likely to be hit than an important target like the U.N.
The problem comes when we consider that you are trying to demonstrate a principle. Suppose you were trying to cure cancer. If 999 of your patients died (well, you would have trouble getting more volunteers at that point, but...), but the 1,000th lived, you could claim with validity that the chances of that last patient experiencing remission on their own is remote, and that your treatment was responsible. But this would not convince many people to seek you out! Only if, armed with the knowledge of how you successfully treated that last patient, you could then consistently and successfully treat new patients, would your claims be credible.
In other words, good luck with your research, but realize that a single success will not validate your methodology.
===Mike
Answer: Hi Mike,
I wish academic people would just study our noun counts at www.truebiblecode.com/understanding49.html
then they would not need any sign such as we are attempting. I wish faithful people would consider our doctrine and see how it reflects God's love and is streets ahead of any other religious organisation, then they would not need a sign either. I mean what are the chances of counting the nouns acting as nouns in the first
227 gospel accounts and having them obey 2 simple rules in each case?
But if we get this UN attack correct after say a dozen attempts, that is not the same as having one person out of 1000 survive cancer, since that happens
all the time anyway. No one has ever correctly predicted a nuclear terrorist attack yet, because no such attack has ever happened. And for all any member of the general public knows, it may never happen at all. Whereas people have been dying of cancer for centuries regrettably. One correct hit of such long odds is enough to prove God and our decoding to a very very high probability. The only way we could get this right without our success being due to our symbolic decoding is if either we are very lucky or we have inside terrorist/security info or we have some type of heavenly help (be it angelic or demonic).
So as long as I am not Bin Laden's cousin, a success means all the lines of code (or decoding) are correct to a very high probability surely?
Blessings
Gordon Ritchie
Lords' Witnesses
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Q1: How will faith and belief help my life in this world?
A1: If you are 3-0 down but you know you will win the match 4-3 you will not lose heart. Faith assures us that however bad it is now, we shall certainly see the Hollywood ending that every film audience wants.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away (Revelation 21).
The pain and suffering resulting from sin in this world is a temporary blip in mankind's inexorable rise to perfect love of Jesus Christ and the perfect justice and righteousness of his father Jehovah.
10 The children of God and the children of the Devil are evident by this fact: Everyone who does not carry on righteousness does not originate with God, neither does he who does not love his brother (1 John 3).
9 Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with you because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance (2 Peter 3:9).
10 the One telling from the beginning the finale, and from long ago the things that have not been done; the One saying, 'My own counsel will stand, and everything that is my delight I shall do' (Isaiah 46).
Now if God desires everyone to achieve repentance, and if everything that he desires he does, then we shall all attain to repentance and so all be children of God and so all carry on righteousness and love our brothers. He will not fail any of his sons or daughters or give up on one of them. Why even Satan will one day repent. But some of us may take a very very long time to get there!
1 Now faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities not beheld (Hebrews 11).
Faith gives us another currency, so that even if we go bankrupt financially, we are millionaires in the true heavenly currency, the heavenly riches...
19
Stop storing up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break in and steal.
20 Rather, store up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break in
and steal (Matthew 6).
The heavenly treasure is real, it is righteous acts, it is a measure of how much you love others. You heavenly bank account contains the value of your spiritual works, the good deeds and the loving deeds that you have done for God and for others. Your citizenship of the kingdom of God depends upon what it is in this bank account. The earthly treasure, the greenbacks, are fake. this treasure is gained for the most part through unrighteous acts (arms and drugs are the two largest economic activities on this planet), and it is a measure of how much more you love yourself than you love your brother or sister. Satan bribes us with a fake currency to behave unrighteously and therefore lose our real currency. If you see this, he may bankrupt you financially will never bankrupt you spiritually. He will not rob you of your citizenship of the Kingdom of God which Jesus preached.
Q2: Why does God not show himself to people directly when they suffer especially children?
A2: Because he gave us free will in order that we can choose what to do for ourselves without being unduly influenced by an omnipotence standing over us. We are all children in this system. Just as we send our children to school without their parents, so God has sent us to the school of this system without being there himself. But he has given us Satan as the headmaster! So it is a rough school! But we shall see God when we get home from school after this system ends.
We are all children of God, learning the character qualities of our father, some faster than others. The pain and suffering of innocent people, children and elderly and everyone in between is the price we pay for free will. Now in this system there is terrible injustice. King David said:
2 As for me, my feet had almost turned
aside. My steps had nearly been made to slip.
3 For I became envious of the
boasters. I would see the very peace of wicked people.
4 For they have no deathly pangs; And their paunch is
fat (Psalm 73).
And whilst it is true that many people do reap what they sow in this system, many do not. For example Pohl Pot in Cambodia killed and tortured millions and yet lived fairly well and died at a fairly old age, a lot older than most of his victims. How can he ever pay for killing millions of people? Well he will go to hell since he died unrepentant and made no attempt to apologise or compensate relatives of those he killed and tortured. And after 1,000 years of existence in a prison for spirits wherein he will not have any sort of body, having shown utter disregard for the bodies of his brothers and sisters, he may be released. He will then spend the next few million years apologising to those he killed all of whom will be resurrected and will live for ever in one form or another as will he. He will face all of the pain that he caused and he will reap everything that he sowed.
7 Be not deceived; God is not to be mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap (Galatians 6).
13 Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.
14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 19)
Q3: What proof is there of a better life waiting after this one?
A3: The Angel Gabriel said that Jesus would be the king of the Kingdom of God which he preached. Given the morality which Jesus both taught and practiced and given his healing miracles and his love for us, he would clearly make a better life for everyone than what we presently get from our corrupt world leaders!
31 And, look! you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a
son, and you are to call his name Jesus.
32 This one will be great and will be called Son of the Most
High; and Jehovah God will give him the throne of David his
father,
33 and he will rule as king over the house of Jacob forever, and
there will be no end of his kingdom.
34 But Mary said to the angel: How is this to be, since I am
having no intercourse with a man? (Luke 1).
Certainly Mary produced him. So Gabriel got that right! So why not believe his next sentence as well? There are many scriptures in the bible that make reference to the Kingdom of God which will return mankind to the paradise from which Adam was evicted. We will not go back to be naked in a garden of fruit trees. But we will return to a paradise commensurate with our advancement since then.
4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it (Micah 4).
21 And they will certainly build houses and have occupancy; and they will certainly plant vineyards and eat [their] fruitage (Isaiah 65).
In this system the people who build the houses do not get to live in them and the people who plant vineyards do not get to eat their fruitage. The next system is meritocratic, it is just and fair. If you work for something you will get it. If you do not work for it, you will not get it. But if you need it, your loving brother himself will give you it, as a matter of choice, out of love.
Q4: Why are the LW's right but other religions are wrong?
A4: The Lords’ Witnesses have discovered the grammatical parity checks that demonstrates that they, and they alone, understand the true inspired code of the bible.
The other religions are not 'wrong'. Nearly every religion has something right. The Mormons know that we shall one day become Gods, being sons of God. The Jehovah's Witnesses know that there are only 144,000 First New covenant saints, and that the kingdom of God has an earthly part and a heavenly part. The Born agains (very few of whom are actually born again) know that Jesus is a God to be prayed to. The Muslims know that this system will end soon. The Jews know that Jehovah is the true God and there is no trinity. The protestants know that the Catholic church is corrupt and that the Pope is not infallible and that there is no purgatory. The Catholics know that Jesus died to save us. But God only had one temple in Israel and only one door into that temple. It is Satan who is divided against himself not God. So God only ever has one true church (other than during a cross over period between true churches). The Lords’ Witnesses believe and can prove from the scriptures that they are the Fourth True Christian Church, the Church of the Second New Covenant. This statement of itself contains two definitions that no other church, Christian or otherwise, has thus far understood from scripture. No other church, as far as we are aware, continuously challenges and develops and changes its doctrine in an effort to get to God’s truth. No other church admits that it is wrong so often.
The LWs adhere to doctrinal repentance, for the church is just a composite person. It is as flawed as any of its adherents, Most other religions generally have fossilized dogma, for church doctrine, that was last revised several few centuries ago! The best way for the reader to demonstrate this for himself is by reviewing the material on the True Bible Code web-site and judging the quality of the Lords’ Witnesses’ understandings at first hand compared with the teachings of any other church or religion.
4
if you keep seeking for it
as for silver, and as for hid treasures you keep searching for it,
5
in that case you will
understand the fear of Jehovah, and you will find the very knowledge of God
(Proverbs 2).
7 Keep on asking, and it will be given you; keep on seeking, and you will find; keep on knocking, and it will be opened to you (Matthew 7).
12 forasmuch as an extraordinary spirit and knowledge and insight to interpret dreams and the explanation of riddles and the untying of knots had been found in him, in Daniel, whom the king himself named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel himself be called, that he may show the very interpretation (Daniel 5).
Q5: Should we all just give up now and wait for the end if the world is going to end soon?
A5: We should take our investment of time and resources and confidence and trust out of this world and put it into the next. For this world is going to end on March 21 2008.
The Titanic is sinking, but there are 6 billion people to direct into the lifeboats.
21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
5 For, according to their wish, this fact escapes their notice,
that there were heavens [skies] from of old and an earth standing compactly
out of water and in the midst of water by the word of God;
6 and by those [means] the world of that time suffered destruction
when it was deluged with water.
7 But by the same word the heavens [skies]
and the earth that are now are stored up for fire and are being reserved to the day of judgment
and of destruction of the ungodly men (2 Peter 3).
Q6: Is faith and forgiveness really enough to enter the new world or do we need intensive knowledge of the bible?
A6: Faith in God is sufficient. You do not need to be Christian or indeed a part of any religion to be saved. You need to have faith in God and you need to obey your conscience under test. This applies to Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jews, Falun Gong devotees, Manchester United supporters, Communists, Capitalists, Environmentalists, Astronauts, Beggars, Bankers and Bar tenders alike,
But no atheist will enter into the kingdom of God.
6 Moreover, without
faith it is impossible to please [him] well,
for he that approaches God must believe that he is and that he
becomes the rewarder of those earnestly seeking him (Hebrews 11).
For the first commandment is to love God, and the second is to love your brother. So those who give loads of money to charity and who love their brothers sincerely from their heart but do not recognise God, are in denial. And are like children who represent that they taught themselves how to spell. Our love comes from God and from other people who were loved by God and from other people who were loved by other people who were loved by God etc etc. God invented love, when he was all by himself before he created Satan, his first angel. Do not be a love pirate. Give glory to the person who invented both love and your capability to give it and receive it.
However deep bible understandings make it easier to love God and our brothers. For the deeper you look into the bible the more love you see.
8 He that does not love has not come to know God, because God is love (1 John 4).
50 But he said to the woman: Your faith has saved you; go your way in peace. (Luke 7).
5 I desire to remind you, despite your knowing all things once for all time, that Jehovah, although he saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterwards destroyed those not showing faith (Jude 5).
Faith gets you into the kingdom of God, which lasts for 1,000 years. Lack of faith gets you into Hell for 1,000 years, But accurate knowledge gets you everlasting life...
3 This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ (John 17).
Q7: Why not make man (even with free will) follow the right path from birth. Why make us destroy/hate/corrupt/kill in the first place?
A7: The only way to learn not to burn yourself is to burn yourself.
God created man with free will so that we would see at first hand the damaging effects of sin so that we could learn for ourselves how to use that very same free will to make better choices about how to live with our brothers.
God originally created the angels with free will but some of them chose to leave God's administration and formed a rebellion. God created similarly free-willed humans to physicalise the effects of sin. Our behaviour therefore is an education not only to ourselves, but also to the angels and the demons who watch us and who help us to love and to be righteous or who try to corrupt us and incite us to hate. Our bodies are made with a propensity to sin. Our spirits, our hearts and minds are made with a propensity to love. These two are at war with each other. Are bodies are in the image of Satan, are spirits are in the image of God. Hearts and minds are more powerful than any brute force. Our spirits will win this war and conquer our bodies eventually. And in doing so they will learn the exceeding value of love and righteousness and they will learn that the inevitable consequence of sin in a society of free willed being is the destruction of that society. The point here is that Angels and humankind alike are learning from man’s mistakes so that we may eventually make the enlightened choice to adopt the behaviour of a God, and thereby become a true son of God. See the following links for more details: Why did God create the Angels? Why did he create the universe? Why did he create us?
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Some of these answers are incorrect, we have improved our doctrine since they were given. We now believe that Jesus is a God to be worshipped like Jehovah. He became such when he fixed both the heavens and the earth by his sacrifice. The name above every other name named that he was given at his resurrection was: Jehovah, the family name of God. But he is not Jehovah, he is the angel Michael a 42nd generation angel who took the firstborn angelic rights from Satan who was physically the firstborn angel. Also Hell is a prison for spirits wherein each spirit is denied a body, angelic or human. Hell is the second death. The first death is unconscious 'sleep' in a temporary angelic body.
We used to get a lot of abusive questions before 911. The abuse pretty much all stopped after that tragedy.
The section
numbers and links referred to have been updated and some spelling has been
corrected.
QUESTION1:
Good afternoon, I've received a fax from yourselves re the bible code.
A question, it states on your sheet under 'Some of the new things the decoding
reveals':- The Date of the second coming of Christ. Er...does not the Word say,
"No one knows but the Father" - Matthew 24:36.
Also the parable re Faithful and Wise Servant in Matthew 24, gives the
illustration that one would get caught up and the other left behind, and that we
must be 'ever watchful' because we do not know the Day or hour. I'm neither
disagreeing or agreeing with your findings but I do believe upon the Authority
of the Word of God accompanied by the Power and Truth of the Holy Spirit, who is
the revealer of truth - John 14-16, 1 John 4.
You may e-mail me at .....
P.
P.S. Do you believe the revealing of these codes is linked to the 'book to be
revealed in the Last Days' in Daniel ?
ANSWER: Hi,
Thanks for an opened minded and rational response to our flyer and website.
As regards Matthew 24:36 the Greek word translated 'knows' is 'oiden', which
literally means 'has seen'. It is in the 3rd person singular perfect tense. A
tense used to convey completed actions in the past. The literal translation of
Matthew 24:36 is:
No one has seen but the Father
A statement in the past tense cannot be a prohibition on future knowledge.
Jesus did not know when Armageddon would be on 33Nisan11 when he made this
statement 3 days before the last supper was held, because nobody knows the date
of their wedding before they have got engaged. Jesus made his engagement
proposal to the 11 apostles, the new covenant saints, his wife to be on
33Nisan14 and he gets married at the marriage of the lamb Revelation 19:
Let us rejoice and be overjoyed and let us give him the glory because the
marriage of the lamb has arrived and his wife has prepared herself....Happy are
those invited to the evening meal of the lambs marriage (Revelation 19:7-9)
Members of the new covenant are these happy ones, the evening meal of the lamb's
marriage is the coronation of the kings in the kingdom of God, on 2008Nisan14,
the last day of this system. See
www.bibledecoded.com/understanding31.html
As regards the book to be revealed in the last days, referred to in Daniel. It
is the bible itself. It is of course a decoding of Daniel but the bible has one
editor Jesus Christ, one publisher God, and
although written by many journalists, it is all in the same code. So the
decoding applies not only to
Daniel but also to the writings of Moses etc.
For the decoded meanings of Daniel have a look at the relevant sections in www.bibledecoded.com
As regards the Faithful slave, the FDS, there are several as you point out.
These are covered in section [34] As regards the knowing of the day and the
hour, the day is the day of Jesus' presence, which is the day of the existence
of the temple of his body on earth. There have been two such presences, the
first from 2Tishri10 BC when he was born until 119Elul when the last of the
first century new covenant saints died, and the second presence was from
1884Tishri until 2004Elul, when the last of the second presence new covenant
saints die. Jesus is present through the presence of his fiance, his body. He is
present in a body which is not his,
not owned by him until his marriage. This is how he left us, he ascended in Acts
1 in someone else’s body, and he returns in the same way.
This Jesus who was received up from you
into the sky, will thus come in the same manner as you beheld him going into the
sky (Acts 1:11)
It is the new covenant saints who are resurrected into heaven or received into
the sky. They are now all chosen. A new earthly covenant has now been made (see
section 4 – now section [11]). I am the messenger of that covenant. It is the
covenant of Keturah, Abraham's third wife.
As regards the hour, well there are several, in fact 12 in a day. Jesus comes
twice in each presence (see section [33]). The whole timetable of these things
is in section (now in section [101]). He comes 12 times in all, and that is a
deep understanding, but there are 12 hours in the day according to our master:
There are 12 hours of daylight are there not? (John 11:9)
Regards blessings and thanks
Gordon Ritchie
QUESTION2:
People
Have been the recipient of your fax regarding the so called "decoding"
(??) of the Bible.
I'm sure I won't be the first to tell you that the futile attempts to unravel
what is not written in Scripture will actually yield nothing. Please take the
time to read the whole of Matthew 24 and specifically verses 36-44 (NOBODY
knows, or ever will know the hour!). The Bible was never written to be
decoded!!!
God left us his word in the Bible that we might know all we need to know about
this life and the little he chose to reveal to us about the next. Also that
through it we may come to know the Lord Jesus Christ personally and have eternal
life through his shed blood on Calvary. From Genesis to Revelation, the theme is
Jesus.
Rather than tying yourselves up in knots with "codes" why not seek the
Lord of all creation, the Lord Jesus Christ (John 3 v 16) and be saved. That is
THE most important consideration in your life right now which will have eternal
consequences, not codes! Don't be blinded by Satan and his clever schemes to
steer you away from the love of the Almighty God of all creation.
Read: 1 John 4 v 9, 1 John 1 v 9. John 14 v 6.
Kind regards
Risk Management
ANSWER: Dear Know it all,
I do not feel worthy to communicate with a man who has actually read 8
consecutive verses of Matthew 24. Ever heard of the Greek word 'oiden'?
How could I have missed that Jesus can just give me everlasting life, I really
don't know?
Sorry to have troubled your loving relationship with my father with my Satanic
scheme to decode the bible. Perhaps you would like me to burn myself at the
stake like Tyndale was (actually Wycliffe was burned, Tyndale was exumed by the
Pope – Ed.)
who decoded
it from latin into English. If only you had been around to tell Isaac Newton how
futile his attempts were to understand God's creative Codes, or how satanic
Crick, and Watsons work at decoding the human Genome was, another of my Father's
masterpieces.
If you knew who Jesus was at all, you would know that he was not the Lord of all
creation. And you would repent from your blasphemy. For YHWH is that one and
Jesus is his son and YHWH is the God of Jesus, whom you do not know. Isaac
Newton knew this 3 centuries ago.
humble apologies,
Gordon Ritchie.
RESPONSE: You seem a little rattled - humble apologies? - I think this is what
you need to do before God. Enough said.
Kind regards
Risk Management
QUESTION3: I received your fax in regards to your up and coming event on 4th
April to discuss the bible. This
event does look very interesting but I would appreciate if you can email me with
more information about your background e.g. who you are, do you belong to any
denomination and so on. I wait for your reply.
Thank you,
Samantha
ANSWER: Hi Samantha,
Thanks for your interest, here are my particulars, but please make an assessment
not of me but of my work on www.bibledecoded.com
As regards my letters of recommendation, I am Gordon Ritchie, I belong to the
Lord's Witnesses, a religion that has only just started. It's first meeting was
March 21st 2000! I have a degree in pure maths from Cambridge, and I have spent
the last 8 years wrestling with the bible code. The first
talk will be on the code itself. I do not have the backing of any organised
religion. But if I have decoded the bible then I do have the backing of God. If
you come on Tuesday you can decide for yourself! We will have some CD copies of
the site at the meeting.
Regards & blessings,
Gordon Ritchie
QUESTION4: I am writing to express my disappointment at the fax I received at
work concerning your 'date setting'. If you are calling yourselves witnesses for
God you surely know that the Bible categorically
states that we will not know the hour nor the day of the Lords coming. As a
born-again Christian I have heard many 'predictions' and so called 'prpphecies'
of the end times. Our duty
is not to set a date, as it is immaterial, our job is to spread the good news,
the news of salvation and of love. Yes we know that the end times are coming
soon, very soon, but scaremongering is not a way to fill Heaven. Please do send
any further correspondence to 0207 410 4020.
ASNWER: Hi
Joanna,
Please please please get a Greek new testament bible, and read Matthew 24:36.
You will see that the exact translation is:
Concerning that day and hour no one has seen.
The Greek word is 'oiden' it means 'he has seen' it is the 3rd person singular
perfect tense of 'Eido' which means 'I see; like the latin 'Video'. A sentence
in the past tense, cannot be a prohibition of future knowledge. The perfect
tense is used for completed actions in the past.
The reason that Jesus said what he did on Nisan11 33CE was that no man knows the
day or hour of his wedding, before he has gotten engaged. Jesus made his
marriage proposal 3 days later on Nisan14 33CE the night before Good Friday, at
the Last Supper. The new covenant saints, which you claim to be a member of by
virtue of being born again, are his bride. The marriage of the lamb (Revelation
19) is the start of the Kingdom of God.
Now having made his marriage proposal Jesus was free and so are we to know when
this date will be. Please tell me how do you expect to get to the church on
time, if you refuse to listen to the messenger of the date of your wedding?
If you read Mark 13, you will find the same word 'oiden' again in the past
tense, meaning no one has seen.
I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment that scaremongering is not the way to
fill heaven. The Catholics have been monsters suggesting that you will burn in
hell if you do not join them. But as it happens the heavenly calling ended in
1955 in the Hebrew month of Tishri (September/October).
You have got be at least 20 years old to be baptised in holy spirit, this can be
seen from the principles of the Law. Every one over 20 years old was killed in
the wilderness before the Jews entered the promised land. Every one under 20 was
not held responsible, and was rebaptised when they crossed over the Jordan at
Jericho (Joshua 1,2,3,4).
So unless you are now 65 which I doubt, you are not born again. If you are
please excuse my presumptuousness.
Just as wicked as scaring people into the Kingdom of God, is deceiving them with
false hopes such as. Just accept Jesus into your heart, click here and God will
download everlasting life into your PC.
Faith need works as you know. If you find that we are correct, then please
accept our invitation to be a citizen of the Kingdom of God on earth. Or if you
would like to be a bride who knows when her own wedding actually is please come
to the Cumberland Suite of the Cumberland Hotel in Great Cumberland Place,
Marble Arch at 7:30 on Tuesday 25th April.
Regards and blessings
Gordon Ritchie
(Bible decoders)
QUESTION5: I am appalled to have received this on my fax machine....I and my
children are not Christian and we do not appreciate receiving such unrequested
drivel on our fax machine. I would like to know how you get your fax numbers.
Please let me know immediately as I would like to get my name/number off of your
source.
ANSWER: Dear appalled of aol.com
It must be awful for you when you receive a TV advert completely unsolicited
using up all your electricity which you pay for. And then you ring them up to
say please do not advertise Coca Cola to me because I drink Pepsi Cola and I
therefore do not want any Coke adverts and they aren't prepared to stop. What do
you do?
Direct advertising is JUNK? and indirect adverts are good?? really. Please do
not be fooled by the TV and Radio advertising propaganda machine. All adverts
are unsolicited uses of your time and materials. They should not be criminal,
they are a necessary part of commerce and of religion. But Media companies have
a lot of power, and so come on lets just put everybody in prison who does not
advertise on NBC. Because their adverts are great and the rest are appalling.
We do believe that any individual should have the right to stop all adverts, if
he/she does not want them, but likewise we have the right to send them in the
first place until you ask us to desist. It's a free speech issue, first
amendment.
We do not give a toll free number because we are not a commercial outfit, we are
a charity. We do not make any money by sending faxes advertising for God, so we
are not in a position to pay for deletions, but we hope to open peoples eyes.
So we, unlike all TV and Radio stations, will honour your rights and stop
advertising to you and I confirm that your fax number is removed. But let me
make one final plug...
A final unsolicited and unabashed usage of your time and materials... Real
rights and real freedom, real love and real justice, real understanding of the
relative importance of issues affecting men and women and an everlasting amount
of time in which to enjoy these rights and freedoms is to be found in the true
understandings of the bible. It is the owners manual for mankind, and it carries
with it a guarantee for an everlasting maintenance contract from God to keep you
alive and to teach you and teach you and teach you until you have a character
that has no evil (none of us have got there yet but many of us will after
Armageddon). For this is necessary for anyone who lives forever, because evil
eventually destroys itself, and therefore has to be eliminated in the longer
term. We have decoded this book to some extent, we have discovered some
interesting things about God and Jesus and Mankind. Please have a look at www.bibledecoded.com
with an open mind.
God's blessings
Gordon Ritchie
The Lord's Witnesses
QUESTION6: I
went to your bible website. My question is; what if you are wrong?
ANSWER: Dear
Tony,
It's a good question. Look at sections 1-16 and tell me if you think I am or
not?
If I am wrong but I have nonetheless decoded the bible to some extent, then God
will show someone where my mistake is and that person will tell us in time for
us to recalculate before the end, and you will see a large increase in the size
of the Lord's witnesses, who currently are very small indeed.
If I am wrong period, and I haven't decoded the bible at all, then he will not
bless my work, and not many people will join the Lord's Witnesses.
If I am right then the UN will take over rulership of the world in April next
year, and the ban on buying and selling by them will come into force in May. 666
Hebrew months after their birthday in October 1945. There will also be a large
war between September of this year and October of next. One assumes that this
war will be the reason why the UN takes over. I have already been correct in my
interpretation of the ten horns of the wild beast that represents the UN as
meaning 10 years of power from 1998 to 2008. So since they did start to get
serious power in 1998, we are now 8 years from the end according to that
understanding. Also this beast has 7 heads which is why they get absolute power
7 years before the end in 2001Nisan, which is around April 2000.
What if I am right?
Please browse and judge. Let me know if you see any fundamental flaws!
God's blessings
Gordon Ritchie
The Lord's Witnesses
QUESTION7: FIRST PUBLIC DATE OF ARMAGEDDON TALK: Hi Colin,
It's at 7:30 pm at the Clarence Room of the Cumberland Hotel near Marble Arch,
London W1, on Tuesday 21st March. I will be disclosing 4 different ways to
deduce the date of the first day of the kingdom of God, which is the start of
Armageddon, from the bible. Nearest Tube is Marble Arch.
God's blessings and my regards
Gordon Ritchie
ANSWER: Mr Ritchie
Thank you for the email. It will be a pleasure to attend your talk on Tuesday.
Looking forward to seeing you.
May God bless.
Colin
QUESTION8: Hi
I am in receipt of your fax headed, somewhat sensationally, 'Armageddon'. I
would like to know exactly what your purpose is in claiming to reveal specific
dates concerning various biblical, current and future events.
Yours sincerely
Sarah Hall
ANSWER: Hi Princess,
Our purpose is to discover and to reveal the true meaning of the bible. Further
it is to disseminate this truth far and wide.
One reason for doing this dissemination is to encourage debate and further bible
research. So that our peers can correct any mistakes that we may have made.
By the tone of your letter it looks like you suspect us of having masterplan to
destabilise the universe and then conquer the earth starting at the Cumberland
Hotel in Marble Arch. If that is the case, then we are sorry to disappoint you!
However if you wish to hear a talk that is every bit as sensational as our fax
header, you are most welcome to come!
Regards and blessings
Gordon Ritchie
QUESTION9: I just perused your web site and I must say a lot of your
interpretation is interesting. However I cannot believe that is it okay in the
eyes of our Lord to fornicate if you use a condom! Cheating is cheating no
matter what and that sort of thinking will only lead to distrust, despair and
the breakdown of many marriages. By having sex with someone other than your
spouse, you are committing adultery, protection or not! One of the commandments
is 'thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wife' Another one is 'thou shalt not
commit adultery' By even wanting or yearning for someone else is considered a
sin. God's commandments are very clear, you'd better go back and re-read them
and get with the program!
ANSWER: Hi
Loraine,
I do not disagree with your much of your email. I do not argue that it is ok to
sleep with another man's wife just as long as you use a condom. I argue that if
you sleep with another man's wife and you use a condom then no adultery has
occurred, since his wife has not been defiled with your semen.
You rightly point out that for a fact a coveting of another man's wife would
have occurred. But coveting is not adultery. There was no penalty in the law of
Moses for coveting so it was not a sin under the law of Moses. Had it been a
sin, there would have been a commensurate penalty. For God's justice is tooth
for tooth, soul for soul. One can hardly sit round a table and decide how much
coveting has been going on and therefore what size of sheep one should
sacrifice! Covetousness is a wrongful desire policed by one's own conscience.
But we are not under the law of Moses anymore. Neither are we under the ten
commandments, although the principles behind them still apply. Jesus died to end
that law.
Jesus said: Everyone that keeps looking at a woman so as to have a passion
for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart (Matthew 5:28).
He has a disrespectful desire to her marriage. But James informs us that:
Desire when it becomes fertile gives birth to sin (James 1:15).
Covetousness, desire, is not sin, it is a mental state which can give birth to
sin. I think we are operating at cross purposes. I am interpreting unambiguous
laws for sin in the congregation. I am not giving moral guidance in the Joining and
leaving web page. You I think are giving reasonable moral guidance. But
wanting or yearning for someone else is not a sin, it is a dangerous desire.
There is a fundamental difference between the two.
There is a difference between feeling like killing someone, or having the desire
to see someone dead and being a murderer! I will not form a 'desire police' as
some of the fundamental churches do, in their abuse of those who follow them.
As regards getting with the program. The question is whose program? I detest the
hypocritical 'morality' of the midwest bible belt in the US and the Mirror
newspaper in the UK, and the wishy washy protestant churches and the flock
abusing fundamental churches. I love the freedom of God and his true justice.
Like Moses said:
The Rock, perfect is his activity, all his ways are justice. A God of
faithfulness with whom there is no injustice (Deuteronomy 32:4)
If one is to be a true witness to him and to his son then one needs to be true
to his justice. I am trying to understand this justice, with a view to
implementing it precisely, in the Lord's Witnesses.
There is a common sense in the interpretation that fornication requires semen,
and it is this. One cannot get any physical problems (sexually transmitted
diseases, unplanned pregnancies etc) if one uses a condom properly. And the
physical is God's mirror of the spiritual.
What I am saying is that you are morally right and legally wrong!
But thanks for your concern. If you can find some scriptural proof that
fornication does not of necessity involve semen, then please mail it to me! I
agree that to sleep with another man when married is unfaithful and could well
lead to the break up of one's marriage, it can be a horrendous crime against
love. But it is only adultery if there is semen.
On a more positive note, which pages did you like/agree with??
Regards and blessings
Gordon Ritchie
QUESTION10:
212-450-3343 212-262-4998
I have reported your operation to the appropriate authorities in London and New
York. If you don't stop faxing me (I've previously called your automated removal
line several times), I will come and pay you a visit the next time I'm in London
(often for business).
If somebody else is maintaining your fax list, you better tell them to fix this.
DO IT NOW OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES!!!! GOD WILL COME AND FRY YOUR LITTLE
GOD-FEARING ASSES. BURN BURN BURN IN HELL.
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO GET UNSOLICITED OPINIONS FROM OTHERS?????? PERHAPS WORDS
THAT EVEN OFFEND YOU -- TOO BAD, YOU LITTLE BRITISH
BUGGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your obnoxious fax is attached.
ANSWER: Dear
Fire and Brimstone,
Please send the authorities in New York to whom you say you have complained a
copy of your abusing email so that you can be prosecuted for hate crime. We do
expect you to own up since you are such a vigorous champion of justice.
God's justice is that he does not fry asses in hell. Hell (Hades, Sheol) is a
place of temporary sleep. Hell (Gehenna), was the garbage dump outside
Jerusalem, where dead bodies of criminals where burnt for sanitory reasons. It
symbolises a place of eternal sleep or everlasting cutting off. It is not a
barbecue.
If you want to know how to avoid going to either of these two places please
visit www.bibledecoded.com . In the
meantime we are removing your two fax numbers and we apologise for the alleged
failure of our automated system.
God's blessings
QUESTION11: Who on Earth gave you the right to invade my privacy with your inane
messages?
You have adopted the offensive selling techniques of the telemarketers - the
modern equivalents of the Merchants in the Temple - to broascast
blasphemy.
Read again the Lord's Second Commandment and tremble, because you will not
escape His punishment.
You should not take the Lord's Name in vain, neither for greed nor to claim that
you can interpret His Designs.
You bless me in His Name??!! You petulant New Popes!
Humble unto the Lord!
ANSWER: Dear Sir,
The man on earth who gave us authority to fax you was the architect of the first
amendment. The people in heaven who gave us this authority are God and Jesus.
Jesus was the original unsolicited evangeliser, network communicator. We are not
temple merchants because we are not selling anything, we are giving free as
Jesus commanded.
But we can sell you an all American Armageddon countdown clock with genuine
calves leather carrying case at the special price of $9.99 for a limited period
only whilst stocks last if you order now... sorry just joking! we are a charity
we sell nothing.
We do hope that our efforts to inform you about God's purposes are not in vain!
Who are you to prohibit us from interpreting the bible? Do you not see that it
is Satan who plays that game (through and along with every spiritually insecure
religious organisation.)
Why not visit sections [1] to [16] and the Code page on www.bibledecoded.com
and then tell us that our claims that we can interpret the holy book are false!
May God bless you
Gordon
The Lord's Witnesses.
P.S. Be careful whom you condemn, with the measure that you are measuring out,
you will have it measured out to you (Mark 4:24). With what judgement you are
judging you will be judged (Matthew 7:2).
QUESTION12: Sir/Madam, please ignore my request for a copy of your web site. It
became apparent, as I perused the site, that you are Jehovah's Witnesses. Should
have realised from your 'new' name. Yours etc C.M.Wall.
ANSWER: Hello,
Are you Chris Wall?? We are not Jehovah's Witnesses. I used to be one, but I was
thrown out for having a brain.
Regards
Gordon Ritchie
Lord's Witnesses
RESPONSE: Hello Gordon...........why the references to the Watchtower then in
the web blurb ? regards C.Wall
RESPONSE: Because the JWs have a place in God's plan in our understanding. They
are in the same position today that the Jews were after Christ (i.e. once
accepted but now rejected by God).
They produce a sour taste in many people's mouths as do the Physical Jews. It is
the lot of any group who have been truly associated with God at some time to be
held in high disregard by much of the World.
But why do you care about them? They are finished as representatives of God.
They have treated me and in fact all of their followers abysmally and so now God
has 'moved on'. And I am so glad that he has. And it is a pleasure to be free
from their oppression. But, I do not forget that it was them who proved to me,
beyond question, that there was a God and that the holy book was logical.
Whereas it was Newton who proved to me just how logical God was, from which I
deduced that the Bible was just as perfect in logic as the universe itself, from
which I deduced that it was in a symbolic code, since this logic was not
normally apparent in the literal meaning of a chapter of it.
Regards and blessings
Gordon Ritchie
Lord's Witnesses
RESPONSE: Hi Gordon..........It is obvious by your reply that your thoughts and
ideals are still deeply rooted in JWs ideology. I find it interesting to note
that 'you' deduced that the bible is in symbolic code. May I refer you to
Michael Drosnin and the work he has been involved in since the early nineties. This decoding is based on math and is quite
convincing. Also, I must point out that poor old Newton died whilst still
searching for a code. He truly believed that the bible contained a hidden
prophecy of human history but although he tried all manner of math his lifetime
project failed. Eliyahu Rips succeeded as he had modern technology to hand and
this is where Drosnin comes into the equation but I'm sure you are aware of all
this anyway.
If
your group is not based on the old JW tenet then I sincerely believe you should
drop the 'Witness' part of your name. I,for one, am still not convinced.
In peace......... Cherry Wall
RESPONSE: Hi
Cherry,
From a sales standpoint I would agree that dropping the Witness part might help.
But our name is deduced from our understanding of the bible code and we try not
to be hypocrites.
Our first book was published in September 1992, Eli Rips published in 1994. As
you may know Eli is not a Christian, so he has not understood the New Testament
and neither has he grasped the reason why the first born son of Abraham, namely
Ishmael, lost his birthright to the second born son Isaac. And the firstborn son
of Isaac, Esau, lost his birthright to the second born son Jacob, and the
firstborn son of Jacob, Reuben, lost his birthright to the 11th born son Joseph,
and the firstborn son of Joseph, Manasseh, lost his birthright to the second
born son Ephraim. These things declare, that Israel, the nation, which as a
group God calls his firstborn, telling Moses:
And you must say to Pharaoh: This is what Jehovah has said: Israel is my son,
my firstborn (Exodus 4:22),
will lose his/its birthright to the Christians, who were God's (and Abraham’s
– Ed.) 'second born
son' and were first baptised by John the baptist in the Jordan.
If the ELS 'decoders' do not have the literal meaning of the bible correct, then
it is unlikely that the holy spirit would give them the coded meaning. visit www.truebiblecode.com/code.html#c21
for some good websites showing that ELS is misinterpreted statistics. You can do
it with War and Peace apparently!
The sons of Israel were the first true religion for Abraham's seed. The JWs were
the 4th true religion for Abraham's seed and the 3rd true Christian religion if
we are correct. If we are rooted in them then Eli is rooted in a religion
rejected nearly 2,000 years before they were!
God loves the sons of Israel and the JWs, we must make sure that we love God
more than we hate any group of his people our brothers and sisters.
Blessings and regards
Gordon Ritchie
Lord's Witnesses
RESPONSE: Oh Gordon.........enough already !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, you are correct
in that any large enough tome can be 'decoded' to a point. All things are open
to interpretation and one must view such things with an open mind. I have
digested your latest email and I'm now even more convinced of your true
leanings. I can not continue with this correspondence .
Shalom..........Cherry Wall
QUESTION13: Dear Bible Decoders
Thank you for your fax - it gave me a right good belly laugh this morning.
You see I was wondering whether it had occurred to you guys - that the Old
Testament, for example, is based on Mesopotamian and therefore pagan stories. So
which God do you think inspired all that then?
Also, has it ever occurred to you that when both old and new testaments were in
essence written - they didn't know the earth was round or even where the weather
came from - so is it any wonder they invented 'a big man' – in their image -
who they believed was pulling the strings.
Also, any thoughts on those missing gospels? After all, you do realise these
writings were never written as a single text and were collected together by
medieval clergy to suit their own ends. And hey, be careful of some of that
translating from the Aramaic and the Greek!
But what really made me laugh was the phrase 'A kingdom of humans with bodies
that do not age' - sounds great to me - beam me up Scotty!
.....thanks for the invite but I already bought my ticket.
xx Beelzebub
ANSWER: Dear
highly sceptical Nick of great patronisation,
Normally we do not respond to know it alls, but in your case we cannot resist.
Have you heard of a bloke called Isaiah who served a God called Jehovah or YHWH.
He said this 700 years before Christ and 2500 years before Newton:
There is one who is dwelling above the circle/orb of the earth, the dwellers
in which are a grasshoppers (Isaiah 40:22).
The whole book of Isaiah was found in the dead sea scrolls, which are dated to
one century before Christ.
No new testament book is in Aramaic, Daniel the old testament book is in
Aramaic. We have the Greek of the New testament and the Hebrew and Aramaic of
the old testament in the form of interlinear bibles. And we have Analytical
Lexicons which precisely explain the meaning case tense mode and person of every
word.
One of the things that the bible reveals is that rather than mankind inventing
warp drive and beating God who said: Let there be light, God limited our
intergalactic capabilities so that people like you and me would be unable to
screw up the universe like we have screwed up this planet until we had grown up
enough. Has it ever occurred to you that God might have created the universe
effectively in his warp drive with a very high speed of light and then slowed it
down as a cage for us until we have learned enough about morality to be allowed
out, at which time he could say let there be light again and change the speed to
say 3 x 1016 metres per second? (Current Big Bang theory postulates
precisely this - Ed)
Please explain why it is that the Sun being precisely 400 times further away
from the earth than the moon (as an average) is also precisely 400 times bigger
than the moon so that they both fit precisely over each other in an eclipse.
Have you any idea what the odds are against that happening if it was not a
matter of design??
Hey, look a bit harder, or you might miss the next episode entirely!
Captain Kirk
RESONSE: Thanks for getting back to me.
Yes, I'm very familiar with Yahweh and the advent of monotheism and the
Judeo/Christian heritage. But just because some fairly primitive human beings
sought solice in one representation of themselves
- as opposed to several (re. paganism) - so what? What makes Yahweh more
realistic/plausible than Zeus/Pluto/Apollo et al. There's no proof for any of
them.
And what on earth to do you propose to prove by using a quote from Isaiah that
claims there's another world inhabited by Grasshoppers. I mean, pleeeassse!
Isaiah would have grasshoppers at the front of his mind because they were part
of his pastoral, primitive world - we write about what we know. But anyway the
less said about Grasshoppers the better!
We're all well aware of the Dead Sea Scrolls and they are a truly fascinating
and illuminating discovery - but their existence doesn't prove the presence of a
god, any more than the presence of the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens
proves the existence of the Goddess Athena. You've got to do better than that!
If I gave the impression that I thought the collected gospels of the New
Testament were written in Aramaic - then apologies - as we all know the New
Testament texts were originally written in Greek - and came from a period in
history where Greek was the educated text and Latin the vernacular.
But surely you must grasp the fact that the texts of the New Testament were
never written as one book - were in fact selected by a fourth century French
cleric to create the tone he felt appropriate for Western Christianity. And in
so doing left out many other gospels written about Christ - that contradicted
(even to a greater extent than the existing gospels do) the story of the Hebrew
carpenter.
And if you know your history you would also know - that the Christian religion
is so prevalent for two reasons ...one, because St. Paul was a fanatical
preacher and proselytiser and two, in 310 AD the Roman Emperor Constantine
enacted the Edict of Milan - in a desperate search to find something to
stabilise a foundering empire and took an entirely temporal decision to make
Christianity the religion of the empire to try and save the Pax Romanes (Pax
Romana - Ed.) Without this pragmatic Pagan - the bible would have been consigned
to a position of it's true essence - which is a bunch of very entertaining
Middle Eastern fairy tales!
Anyway, apart from all this - you lose me when you get into all that L Ron
Hubbard space stuff. And I've no idea why the earth is in such a handy
proportion to the Sun. Some things are just coincidental - face it.
And some thing else you may want to face up to - that just maybe, our presence
on this planet is purely one large accident and in the scheme of the universe
we, as humans, have as much significance as a load of ants. Yikes!
X nick
RESPONSE: Dear fellow ant,
Perhaps we all have the significance of a load of grasshoppers?
It was actually the circle or orb of the earth that I was referring to. A
statement made for a fact over 1500 years before the concept of the world being
round was even debated by the scientific community. I did not adduce the dead
sea scrolls as a proof of the existence of God, rather I used them as a proof of
the pre-existence of the writings of Isaiah. How did he know the earth was round
in the 'primitive world' in which he lived?
A certain acting detective inspector who arrested me ten years ago said: I do
not believe in coincidences !
The very existence of the plethora of Gods to which you refer, proves that there
is a true God, because who ever made a series of fakes when there wasn't an
original??
Confucious he say: Even glasshopper cleated by somebody! Nationar rottery
cleates mirrionailes but landom chance did not cleate camerot!
Regards & blessings
Gordon
QUESTION14: The churches of today have a strong standpoint against homosexuality.
The Catholic Church states that one can be homosexual, yet as long as one
doesn't practise. Yet on the opposite sde of the fence, the Christian charismatic
movements state that it is a sin and will lead to the eternal fires of hell
(grave as we know it).
First of all I ask, can you interpret to me
A: 1 Cor 6:9(I read it on the site)
B: Is Homosexuality a Sin?
C: If one doesn't practise, do they still commit a sin?
And D: What is the Lord's Witnesses view on homosexuality?
As this is a major area for me as I always understand everybody in the eyes of
God is equal, regardless of sexuality, colour or creed. And this is always an
area which stops me in religion. Even though I come from a very strict religious
background, there is always at the back of my mind the question what does God
really think of homosexual people, are they normal, are they weird. Are they
Sinners? This is just a worldly issue and not really a question you have to
answer. Yet one I'd be grateful for an answer from. For as of yet, nobody has
been able to answer it, in a non bigotry way.
And as for why I ask this question, I'm concerned for if it's a SIN, will gay
people be allowed into the Kingdom or will they be destroyed at 2008 (as you
believe) Now I'll leave you with a phrase from one of my closest icons Dale
Winton.
"Call me gay, call me straight, but please don't call me fat." - D.
Winton (when speaking to the TV TIMES).
ANSWER: Hi
Tony,
Thanks for your questions. It is an omission on my site.
Attached is a word document with the answers you request, which I will put up on
the site soon. I forgot to answer C: in the document. The answer is NO. You only
sin if you perform a male homosexual act.
As an aside, Gary Glitter was sent to prison for possessing child porn. Now the
law of Moses is very clear and indisputably just. An eye for an eye, a tooth for
a tooth a soul for a soul. It wasn't: thinking about a tooth for a tooth. It
wasn't: having pictures of dentists for a tooth.
What if I possessed a copy of Shindlers List, a film which contains things more
horrific than child abuse. It contains genocide. Should I then be locked up as a
potential genocidal maniac? God's justice is practical and fair.
Regards and blessings
Gordon Ritchie
THE
ATTACHMENT:
What! Do you not know that unrighteous persons will
not inherit God's kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters,
nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men,
nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners
will inherit God's kingdom.
And yet that is what some of you were. But you have
been washed clean, but you have been sanctified, but you have been declared
righteous in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the spirit of our God.(1
Corinthians 6:9-11).
Yet Paul
himself said:
And I have hope toward God, which hope these [men]
themselves also entertain, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the
righteous and the unrighteous (Acts
24:15).
Now
everybody who is resurrected inherits God’s kingdom, because such is the one
and only destination of the resurrection. They inherit it because it is a
feature of Jesus’ will if you like, made possible by his death. So Paul is
saying that unrighteous people as a group will not inherit the kingdom but he is
also saying that various unrighteous individuals will inherit it. Consider for
example the unclean animals in Noah’s ark. They symbolise a resurrection of
the unrighteous.
So nobody
can limit God’s mercy and nor would I want to. There will be male homosexuals
in the kingdom of God. But the male homosexual act is a sin for which any man
should be thrown out of a true Christian congregation (unless he was raped). So
there will be no practising male homosexuals in the true Christian congregation.
The
scriptures below show quite plainly that the male homosexual act, is a sin.
Now we know
that the Law is fine provided one handles it lawfully in the knowledge of this
fact, that law is promulgated, not for a righteous man, but for persons lawless
and unruly, ungodly and sinners, lacking loving
kindness, and profane, murderers of
fathers and murderers of mothers, manslayers, fornicators, men who lie with
males, kidnappers, liars, false swearers, and whatever other thing is in
opposition to the healthful teaching
according to the glorious good news of the happy
God, with which I was entrusted (1
Timothy 1:8-11).
So too Sodom
and Gomorrah and the cities about them, after they in the same manner as the
foregoing ones had committed fornication excessively and gone out after flesh
for unnatural use, are placed before [us] as a [warning] example by
undergoing the judicial
punishment of everlasting fire (Jude 7).
And
likewise even the males left the natural use of the female and became violently
inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males, working what is
obscene and receiving in themselves the full recompense, which was due for
their error (Romans
1:27).
And you must not lie down with a male the same as
you lie down with a woman. It is a detestable thing
(Leviticus 18:22).
And when a man lies down with a male the same as
one lies down with a woman, both of them have done a detestable thing. They
should be put to death without fail. Their own blood is upon them (Leviticus 20:13).
I cannot
tell you what pleasure it gives me to answer such a well constructed set of
questions on this issue and to explain to you God’s love and his
righteousness.
So as
regards the meaning of 1 Corinthians 6:9, it is simply that practising male
homosexuals as a group will not get a resurrections. It does not mean that all
practising male homosexuals will not enter the kingdom. Some of them will.
As regards
your second question: Is homosexuality a sin? The answer is no.
Female
homosexuality or lesbianism is not a sin period. Women can do whatever they like
to each other sexually without sinning. The bible is silent on this issue. And
since Paul has said:
For by law is the accurate knowledge of sin (Romans 3:20).
And since
the law does not mention female homosexuality, it is not a sin. This is the
wonderful thing about the bible. It recognises the real differences between men
and women, rather like the book women are from Venus and men are from Mars. The
bible is not politically correct, it is correct period.
It is not a
sin to fancy a bloke. But it is a sinful desire. James says of this:
Then the desire, when it has become fertile, gives
birth to sin; in turn, sin, when it has been accomplished, brings forth death (James 1:15).
This does
not mean that all sinners die. It means that all sinners (who commit sins
deserving of death) in the true Christian congregation should be thrown out for
a period. It is a sin
to perform a male homosexual act.
Let me
explain what this means if you are not in the true Christian congregation. If
you are not in any covenant with God (i.e. not a true Christian) you have made
no agreement to abide by his laws. So you will more than likely be committing
all sorts of sins, since you do not have an accurate knowledge of his laws and
perhaps do not even believe that there is a God. In this case God will judge you
on the basis of your conscience, says Paul:
They are the very ones who demonstrate the matter
of the law to be written in their hearts, while their conscience is bearing
witness with them and, between their own thoughts, they are being accused or
even excused (Romans 2:15).
So if in all
honesty your conscience does not beat you when you perform a male homosexual act
then this act will not be held against you by God.
But your
conscience is obviously bothering you. May I say this first. Be more concerned
about finding your God, and finding his true people, than about homosexuality
for now. Because when/if you find his true people, the matter will seem smaller
in comparison to the love of God. And abstaining from male homosexual acts is
good, but seeking the Lord in courage and in truth, is better.
Now let us
suppose that you find the true people of God. There have been 4 true Christian
religions since Jesus, and the Lord’s Witnesses, the bible decoders, the Life,
are the fourth. If you would like information on the four true religions just
ask.
If you were
to join the true Christian congregation, then you would be thrown out if you
performed a male homosexual act with anyone. It is far more serious to commit
such an act within the true congregation than it is to commit it outside.
Because once in a covenant with God, you have broken your agreement with him if
you commit a sin bringing death (which today means excommunication).
If you did
this you could still come back in at a later date, either after 7 months or
after the next Jubilee, which is after every 49 months, whichever is the sooner.
So if you joined us and you fancied some men, just regard them all as married!
Seriously you should try to kill the desire too.
Now God
loves all men, and he loves sinners, because we are all sinners, but he
especially loves men who are trapped by their sinful desires but are fighting to
overcome them. It is when a man from the depth of the sewer cries out to his
creator and says: Help me God, I know that I have screwed up, that the holy
spirit responds big time. And I believe that you have been in that situation.
I cannot
speak for the holy spirit, in fact the holy spirit speaks for me, but that is a
different matter. But I can tell you this: God so loved the world that he
gave his only begotten son.
All of us,
sinners and saints. Male Homosexuality is quite obviously unnatural (Jude 7) and
obscene (Romans 1:27). But God detests the hypocrisy of the so called moral
majority as much as he detests the homosexual acts that the minority indulge in.
Jesus spent more time condemning Pharisees than he did homosexuals. In fact
Jesus himself did not condemn homosexuals at all. He did mention Sodom and
Gommorah, in fact in a positive vein:
Truly I say to you, It will be more endurable for
the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on Judgment Day than for that city (Matthew 10:15).
In summary,
the male homosexual act is an excommunication sin. But the larger threat to your
everlasting inheritance, which is to be a perfect human for 1,000 years from
2008 to 3008 and then to be an angel or a human everlastingly, is the deception
and the snares of bigoted and hypocritical false religions, which offer you
everything but deliver you into the dense black fog of pharisaical pretense,
ignorance, subservience, tradition, stultification and death.
Love is
greater than sin. Love covers a multitude of sins. Love conquers sin and pushes
fear outside. I hope this exposition is of some help.
Love and
blessings,
Gordon
Ritchie
QUESTION15:
Hello,
I got a FAX for a free copy of your book.
Before I start into your site and teaching, please direct me to your statement
of faith or doctrine.
With the love of Christ, Rich McMahon Panama City, FL
ANSWER: Hi,
We are Christians, we believe that Jesus was God's son, and that he was raised
from the dead on the third day counting inclusively.
We believe that all salvation is through Jesus and that all official salvation
is also through the First Abrahamic covenant.
If you want something more sensational. We believe that entrance to the New
Covenant has now ended and that a second new covenant has been made. We also
believe that both of these covenants are subcovenants of the first Abrahamic
Covenant.
Regards and blessings
Gordon Ritchie
RESPONSE: Hi Gordon,
Thanks for your response. Could you please fill in a few more points for me?
1. Is Jesus God in the flesh ? (John 1:1-14 and 1 John 5:7)
2. Is the entire Bible (66 Books, OT and NT) true and Holy Spirit inspired word
of God ?
Thanks and best regards, Rich McMahon, Panama City FL
RESPONSE: Hi Rich,
1. No he is not
2. Yes it is
These two statements are not contradictory. No son who is by definition created,
is his own father, who in this case is God. The Father is God of the son, who
himself is a God because like begets like, but he is not 'God the father'.
Regards
Gordon Ritchie
RESPONSE: Hi
Gordon,
Thanks for your reply. I'm glad we agree that our Bible is God's word to us and
is true (in the original writing). I don't want to get into idle babble, but I
would like to establish a few points before I look into your teaching. Thank you
for being open to reasoning together with me.
Please let me know your thoughts on the following...
1. In John 1:1-2, 14, God tells us, in the beginning, that the Word (Jesus) was
God.
In Colossians 2:9, God tells us that in Jesus dweleth all the fullness of the
Godhead bodily.
2. Question...Was Jesus raised bodily from the dead ?
3. Question...Briefly, how does one become born again ?
Thanks and best regards, Rich McMahon Panama City, FL
RESPONSE: Hi Rich,
1. See www.truebiblecode.com\understanding243.html
In the beginning the Word was, and the
Word was with God and the Word was [a] God (John 1:1).
Greek has no indefinite article 'a' but it does have a definite article 'the'.
So John 1:1 can be translated either as 'the Word was God' or as 'the Word was a
God'. If you read on to verse 18 you find:
No man has seen God at any time; the
only-begotten god who is in the bosom [position] with the Father is the one that
has explained him (John 1:18).
So Jesus is the only begotten God who is in the bosom position with his Father
God. God himself is not begotten of anyone. He is the great Begetter!! Unlike
Freddie Mercury who was the great Pretender!
Jesus explains that all angels are Gods to the Jews when he says:
Jesus answered them: Is it not written in
your Law: I said you are gods? (John 10:34).
It is very dangerous and normally wrong to deduce a doctrine from one scripture
alone. You need to harmonise all scriptures on a subject before you get the true
meaning.
As regards Colossians 2:9. Because in him
is dwelling down all the fullness of the divinity bodily (Greek Interlinear
Translation).
i.e. Jesus has all of God's fullness dwelling in him bodily. This is the same
statement as:
He is the reflection of [his] glory and
the exact representation of his very being, and he sustains all things by the
word of his power; and after he had made a purification for our sins he sat down
on the right hand of the Majesty in lofty places (Hebrews 1:3).
His has all of God's qualities but he is not God. He is God's son. Just as
George W. Bush has all of the 'Qualities' of his Dad ?!? (I dread to think).
When Jesus died his body, his soul, was given to God to pay for Adam's soul, his
body, in the ransom which was soul for soul. A soul is a vehicle for the spirit.
A soul can be human or angelic. However Jesus' spirit went to sleep actually
until the Sunday when he was resurrected in the body of a Gardener look-alike
initially. Every appearance that he made to his disciples after he was
resurrected was in a different body. This is telling us about how he comes
again. In fact he comes 6 times after he died, even as he appeared 6 times to
his disciples as recorded in the bible see: www.truebiblecode.com\understanding240.html
So Jesus was raised from the dead, which means that he spirit which was asleep
was awakened, in fact in a new human body initially. He now exists in his old
angelic body.
For how one is born again see www.truebiblecode.com/understanding190.html
Blessings and thanks
Gordon
QUESTION16: Subject: better start working on plan B
So the UN is going "to take over complete rulership of the world" in
about a month or two eh? I have to admit, I like your style. You guys may be
nuts, but at least you're not in doubt.
Want some friendly advice? Better start working on your "revised"
prophesy real soon. Hope you're creative!
Thanks for
some fun reading -- Gil Theissen
ANSWER: Hi Gil,
What do you mean? We are already on plan Z !!
Seriously though this is make or break for us. Glad we were entertaining
Gordon Ritchie
P.S. Do you know of any very remote islands ??
RESPONSE: Dear Gordon:
What's this?
You guys are not only nuts, but good natured with a sense of humor as well? Now
I really like your style. Nevertheless, you guys are from Britain, though. Don't
you know that this Apocalyptic, cover-yer-head and kiss-your-butt-goodbye type
evangelism is reserved for us lunatics over here in the good ole U.S. of A? You
trying to horn in, or what?
Anyway, if it didn't mean me ending up covered with boils or something, I'd
almost wish you good luck on your prophecy.
Gil Theissen
P.S. Does this mean we're outta luck for the trip to England we're planning next
spring?
QUESTION17: Dear Friend
I have read with great interest your wonderfully researched book 'The True Bible
Code'. Although I have not yet had the opportunity to read it in its entirety, I
must nevertheless confess that I have so far found it
to be very enlightening and it certainly raises some trenchant Scriptural
points.
One passage in particular caught my attention - on the issue of blood
transfusions and in particular the irradiation of blood prior to transfusion.
You ask whether it would be possible to irradiate blood,
to kill all living cells, and thus make it acceptable for genuine Christians and
you also point out that this would be a better therapy as the blood would also
be sterile following irradiation.
I have some background in the Sciences - albeit with a more Physical bent -
so this point interested me on both theological and scientific fronts. I
have since carried out some research at my local library and University; sadly
it appears that it your hypothesis is not scientifically valid.
The radiation used to kill the cells would also have the effect of destroying
the blood's oxygen-carrying capabilities. The haemoglobin, the protein in the
red blood cells that transport the oxygen around the body, would be destroyed
and, thus, the blood would be useless. One of the Scientists I discussed this
issue with did say that one may as well transfuse black pudding, as the overall
benefit would be much the same.
Furthermore, irradiating the blood may have the effect of 'transforming' the
white blood cells that when transfused into the patient may lead to cancer and
in particular leukaemia. In effect the patient would have leapt from the frying
pan into the fire - albeit a rather slow-cooking one!! Also the blood would not
necessarily be sterile following irradiation. The prion protein, PrP, that
causes BSE and vCJD ('mad cow disease' and its human equivalent) would not be
destroyed by this process.
I apologise for being bearer of bad news, but it was an idea that was well worth
suggesting and I'm so terribly sorry it didn't turn out better.
Finally, may I reiterate that I have immensely enjoyed your book, and I look
forward to you reply and reading your opinions on the issues I have raised
(have, for example, other people contacted you with similar information?), and
perhaps discussing further issues as I progress through the book.
Yours Sincerely
Francis Fluka
ANSWER:
Hello,
I appreciate your research into our blood idea. But blood is currently
irradiated at the level of upto 5000 rads without damaging heamaglobin or red
c