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Posted by AF [AF] on November 01, 1999 at 10:51:09 {2gTL9dbN6kDjRmAxB/kMdaOt1gg/Zk}:

In Reply to: ****Discussion summaries posted by Friend crtd on November 01, 1999 at 07:17:16:

: In context of the Survival book your contention boils down to this:

: Teaching that the Sheep/goat/judgment has application beyond today (right now not next year) is the supposed “serious mistake.”

That's way too ambiguous because "has application" can mean just about anything. I'd rather put it this way: Teaching that the Sheep/goat/judgment might begin after today (right now not next year) would be a “serious mistake.” Or even more simply: The sheep/goat/judgment is being done right now.

: Am I correct or incorrect? Answer me that and I will continue. Hopefully in so answering you will see the error of your thinking.

You'll have to continue.

: ... Surely you have seen where, for sake of consistency, I employed the same double negative myself. (I.e., Do you contend that the Society has taught that Jesus parable could not apply until beyond “the conclusion of the system” or not?)

Indeed I saw that. Trying to decipher it is what showed me that that language is extremely difficult to understand. One mark of a good writer is that readers don't have to go back and reread the text ten times in order to get the sense. The very fact that several intelligent people must debate the meaning of a few words in the Survival book shows that the writing is very poor.

AF

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