Posted by 5GJW [5thGenerationJW] on April 01, 1999 at 20:27:51 {feW1wc1uNQlo6QIt25t6ZX9D1q7/.6}:
In the spirit of the evening, I decided to read "Talking With The Dead", J. F. Rutherford, 1920. This is the strangest piece of the Judges work I have read, with some sort of fabricated conversation taking place between Mr. Psychic, Mr. Newday, and Mr. Lightbearer (no points for guessing who the Judge is in this drama, or for guessing who wins in the end). The argument follows the line of establishing a strawman, Mr. Psychic, then Mr. Lightbearer defeats Mr. Psychic, causing Mr. Newday to be very impressed. The cartoons my children watch have deeper plots. However, I found some interesting quotes.
Page 67
It will be noted that the one selected as a spirit medium between Saul and the dead prophet
was a woman. It will be noticed in nearly instance of testimony cited by Mr. Psychic the medium has been a woman; and in that testimony Sir Arthur Conan Doyle says: "Nearly every woman is an undeveloped medium". And here again we remind
you that Satan began his nefarious work by using a woman, deceiving her, and through her caused the fall of man. King Saul in consulting a medium departed from the plain teaching that the Lord had given him through his word.
The Judge does not expand on his thoughts here, but I don't think that he meant this as a complement to women. Did the Judge ever have a girlfriend (other than the bottled variety)?
Page 71
The disobedience in Eden brought upon man the
condemnation of death. The perfect man and women in Eden did not beget or bring forth children. It was only after they had been driven from Eden and were undergoing the legal judgement of death, which was being enforced by their being
compelled to eat of the impure food that the unfinished earth produced, that man exercised the power of producing children.
So if I get the point here, Adam and Eve were slowly poisoned by imperfect food, and would not have died, given a perfect diet(note to edgy11, Adam was a veg.). If the death sentence was being enforced by the impure food of the earth, doesn't this mean that Jesus would have also died from eating this same food?
5GJW, wondering if Beaver weighs the
same as a duck