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Please
do not be deterred from visiting this web site by the use of rather
cold, formal language in this document. It has to be employed for legal
reasons – especially as some of this web site deals with sensitive and
controversial issues.
One
intention of this disclaimer is to anticipate and answer in advance any
enquiries or objections made by third parties. Reading it could prevent the
sending of unnecessary e. mails.
NO
appeals for money or for any other forms of support will be made anywhere
on this site. Unless otherwise stated, all its services are FREE OF
CHARGE as long as all of the terms and conditions on this disclaimer
are observed by users.
Will
regular users of this web site please note that the terms and conditions
set out below were last updated on Tuesday, 21st July 2009;
other material on this site was last updated on Thursday, 6th
August 2009.
Contents
Preamble:
Section A: Preliminaries
Section B: General terms
Section C: Conditions applying to the use of
Y.N.Ps material
Section D: Conditions applying to the use of
link lists and other information sources
Section E: Conditions applying when contacting
the Director
Section F: Conditions
relating to the use of names and the respect of privacy
Section G:
Conditions relating to the use of humour and study questions in relation to
error
Section H: What
Next?
Section I: Miscellaneous
Details
Preamble
The
following are the terms and conditions applying to everyone wishing to use
in any way the material, employed on this web site. They are not subject to
negotiation. Legal sources were carefully consulted during their
compilation. The Director of Y.N.Ps
can under no circumstances be
financially, legally or morally held liable for any failure to look up,
understand or observe any of the terms and conditions listed in this
disclaimer.
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Section A: Preliminaries
1) The
titles of ‘author,’ ‘director’ ‘writer,' 'Midrash-Creed’
and 'Raymond Creed' are used interchangeably in this document, on
this web site and in any external literature, which has been produced. They
refer to the same person whose real name has been withheld for reasons of
confidentiality.
2)
Unless otherwise stated, the terms ‘information’ ‘literature’
‘resources’ and ‘material’ are used interchangeably both in this
document and on the web site as a whole. They refer to the body of
information listed or otherwise mentioned on the Literature List.
Also referred to is any material published externally by the author.
3) The
words ‘employ’ or ‘use’ in the context of ‘employing’
or ‘using’ 'YES-NOW Publication's' material refers to such
activities as the downloading, replication, retrieval, publication, storing
and distribution of all or some of the literature on this web site.
4) A
‘user’ is any individual, group or organisation who engages in such
activities as the downloading, replication, retrieval, publication, storing
and distribution of all or some of the literature on this web site.
5) ‘Users’
are distinguished from ‘visitors’ who only refer to this web site
for reasons of casual reading and/or private study. They are not engaged in any of the
activities of a user. The term ‘visitor’ is used interchangeably
with ‘reader.’
6)
'General Terms' refers to broad guidelines applying to the whole of 'YES-NOW Publications' (henceforth known as
Y.N.Ps) whilst the word 'conditions' refers to any specific
regulations guiding individual areas of activity.
7) Unless otherwise
stated, all quotations from scripture are (for copyright reasons) taken
from the King James Bible. In some instances, there has been a minor
updating of wording in order to ensure greater clarity. Some amplification
and paraphrasing may be present in order to bring out salient points. Any
amplification is shown by italicised square brackets [ ], whilst any
paraphrasing is denoted by three consecutive dots (...). Readers are
expected to check up relevant passages should they doubt its meaning or be
unsure of its context. Crudens Strong's and Young's concordances were
regularly consulted during the production of literature for this website.
8) To facilitate
reference and save web space, all files have been placed in PDF format
unless they consist of promotional material containing useful links.
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Section B: General
terms
1) The Director of Y.N.Ps does not issue appeals
for money as he's believes that such appeals can be a source of
considerable annoyance to users. He's of the firm view that finance for
this web site should be met through either 'tent making' (Acts
18:3) or direct provision from the Almighty, (Matthew 7:19f). He will not
disclose personal details in order to obtain funding and any promise of
large donations made through the internet will be viewed with suspicion.
Such donations would be better directed towards the relief of world poverty
and/or the propagation of the Gospel.
2) The director will
not treat with any party requesting up-front fees for alleged
administrative, banking, editing, and marketing or production costs. Any
party making such a request will be viewed with unqualified
suspicion.
3) All users are expected to use their own discernment when
consulting or otherwise employing the literature on this web site. The
author can under no circumstances be held financially, legally or morally
responsible for any form of negative outcome even among casual visitors and
readers.
4) All visitors to this web site are welcome to read all or some
of the material on this site before deciding whether to abide by all
of the terms and conditions of this disclaimer.
5) Unless otherwise stated, all material on this site is under
the legal copyright of the Director of Y.N.Ps who is either the author or
the editor of all non-quoted and non-cited material on this web site. Such
material has also been placed under the copyright of his real name.
6) No legal alteration to any of contents or wording of material
on this web site may occur without the writer’s prior and documented
consent.
7) No permission is given to any party to mix or combine
literature from this web site with material of either a heretical,
pornographic, violent and/or occult nature. Those who engage in such
activities are acting against the express wishes of the author and are in
serious breach of copyright law. They are liable to incur severe legal
penalties as a result.
8) The names of ‘Midrash-Creed’, 'Raymond Creed' and
‘YES-NOW Publications’ in either their full forms or the abbreviated
form of ‘Y.N.Ps’ are also under the copyright of the author and
should not be adopted by any other party without his documented
authorisation. Various forms of
action may be taken against those in breach of this condition.
9)
Readers and users of this web site are not required to sign up to or
adhere to any of the doctrinal statements made on it, as the author regards
them as being best left to individual conscience to either accept or not
accept. However, readers and users are expected to refrain from ridiculing
or misrepresenting those statements. (Polite and reasoned criticism is
acceptable because the author believes that such criticism could sharpen up
his own faith.)
10) Readers
and users of this web site are not required to belong to any church,
fellowship or any other form of religious organisation. The writer accepts
that in this period of mass apostasy, people may have found themselves to
be in an isolated position through no fault of their own.
11) The
Director of Y.N.Ps is unable to accept: -
a) Any
request to undertake research or provide information unless it’s
immediately available from his web site
b)
Unsolicited material for review editing or publication
purposes no matter how excellent or poor its content and presentation. (If
the Director wishes to use material by other authors he will contact the
parties concerned.)
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Section C:
Conditions applying to the use of Y.N.Ps material
1) Every visitor is most welcome to engage in the electronic as
well as non-electronic downloading, replication, retrieval, publication,
storing and distribution of all or some of the material on this web site
provided: -
a) The
Director is informed (unless the sole purpose is for private study)
b) It’s done on a
non-profit basis (the Director would expect to receive a share of any
profits made)
c) Each item is copied in full under either (or both) the names
of ‘Midrash-Creed’ or ‘Director of Yes-Now Publications’
d) The original source of this web site is acknowledged by
recording for public use its URL number, which is www.geocities.com/midrashcreed
e) They realise that such activities are conducted at their own financial,
physical and psychological risk.
f) They accept full liability for any financial and non-financial
costs or damages incurred
g) They make no alteration to the contents or wording without
the author’s consent
h) They refrain from mixing or combining literature from this
web site with material of either a heretical, pornographic, violent and/or
occult nature.
i) All conditions in both this section and other sections of the
disclaimer are faithfully observed
However,
NORMAL COPYRIGHT CONSIDERATIONS apply to any material produced externally
by the author through any other Publishing outlet.
2) Copying in part is strictly prohibited, unless the director
of Y.N.Ps grants permission - the only exceptions being, if such copying
occurs for reasons of: -
a)
Education
b) Private
study
c) The
compiling of web site directories and/or news bulletins
d)
Published criticism
3) All parties engaged in employing the material on this web
site for any use (other than private study or the compiling of web site directories
and/or news bulletins) is expected to keep the Director informed of the
progress of such activities.
4) As any employment of Y.N.Ps material is undertaken at the
risk of the party involved, the author will not be held financially,
legally or morally responsible for any damage, injury, loss of life and
costs incurred by such an activity. Those who download or in any other way
use material from this web site do so at their own risk and are expected to
make their own virus (and other appropriate) checks. This condition
also applies to casual visitors and readers who may not otherwise use
Y.N.Ps material.
5) The
above terms do not apply to any kind of recognised, publication agency where
normal commercial considerations are expected to apply. These will be
subject to negotiation.
6) The author reserves the right to withdraw copyright if the
party using material from this web site: -
a) Claims its material as their own or in any other way fails to
acknowledge true authorship
b) Makes unauthorised alterations to its content or wording
c) Combines it with heretical, pornographic, violent, occult or
any other type of harmful electronic and non-electronic material
d) Propagates false teaching
e) Incites or engages in violent and/or fraudulent behaviour
f) Makes unreasonable demands for money, goods, or free services
of any kind
g) Breaches any of the other regulations in either this section
or any other section of the disclaimer
7) The Director of Y.N.Ps firmly disclaims all financial, legal
and moral responsibility for any abuses or illegal activities that may be
conducted by any party employing its material. The director is not in any
sense responsible for the beliefs, behaviour or statements of any party,
organisation, or individual engaged in such an activity.
8) The Director of Y.N.Ps firmly disclaims all financial, legal
and moral responsibility for the contents or conduct of any web site
directory, which has placed this particular site on its lists.
9) The above condition also applies to third parties who violate
copyright by employing the names of 'Midrash-Creed' or 'YES-NOW
Publications' in either a full or an abbreviated form without the
author’s documented authorisation. He also reserves the right not to enter
into correspondence about any such abuses although he would appreciate
being informed of them in a clear, factual and reasonable manner.
10) For distribution or private study purposes any user is most
welcome to alter the font and layout of any downloaded material so long as:
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a) the Director is kept
informed and acknowledged as the original source
b) A clear improvement
is made to the appearance of the downloaded material
c) There is no
alteration to any of its content
Link tags maybe deleted if the material is being converted
into 'word' format
11) Users must also
recognise that material, which is quite opposed to Biblical Christianity, has
been used for research purposes. Legal obligations require them to be
acknowledged in either footnotes or Bibliographies. Anyone using this web
site are expected to exercise due caution when referring to such material
and they do so at their own risk. The Director can under no
circumstances be held financially, legally and morally responsible for any
form of negative outcome resulting from the use of such material.
12) To
guard against any plagiarism and copyright violation the author has
replicated and stored in a different places all material on this
website; these could be produced as recognised legal evidence should the
need arise.
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Section D: Conditions applying to the use of link lists and other
information sources
1) The Link List web sites have been selected for their ability
to provide useful, factual information and the Director of Y.N.Ps regularly
visits them for that purpose. But this does not mean that he necessarily
endorses, recommends, sympathises or agrees with the authors of those
websites in relation to: -
a)
Their privately or publicly expressed doctrinal, political and personal
views
b) The manner in which their views are expressed
c) The design, structure and layout of their websites
This
condition also applies to any other electronic and non-electronic source of
information listed in the bibliographies or mentioned elsewhere on this
site.
2)
Anyone using Link List web sites does so at their own risk. The Director can
under no circumstances be held financially, legally and morally responsible
for any form of negative outcome from visiting those sites. Personal
discernment must be exercised at all times and complaints made directly to
the web sites concerned. Any complaints made to the Director about Link
List web sites, are unlikely to receive a response unless expressed in a
clear, factual and reasonable manner.
3) A ‘zero
tolerance’ policy is adopted toward web sites misusing the Christian
faith to: -
a) Advocate false
teaching, bogus revelations, immoral or violent behaviour or dubious
spiritual practices
b) Incite hatred by calling for harm to be done to persons or
property belonging to perceived, political, racial, religious and social
‘out groups’
c) Make endless appeals for money or material resources
(although sporadic appeals are acceptable)
4) As a final resort, the Director of Y.N.Ps reserves the right
to either privately or publicly disassociate himself from any electronic
and non-electronic ministries engaging in such behaviour. He has attempted
to exclude such ministries from the Link List.
5) Users must recognise that the employment
of a wide range of oral, written and web site sources of information,
within some of the material in the Literature List does not mean that the
Director either accepts responsibility for, agrees with or endorses: -
a) Their content
b) Their style
c) Any public or privately expressed views
emanating from them
7) All
readers are expected to use their own discernment when consulting or
otherwise employing the sources listed in the bibliographies or used
elsewhere on this site. Please also note that: -
a) Listing in the
Bibliography, does not mean that the director
of this site necessarily endorses either the content or style of these
sources – nor is he responsible for the conduct or financial/legal affairs
of any organization associated with them.
b) Neither the
quotation nor citation of a source in this work should be taken as a
recommendation of its quality unless the director’s previous comments
strongly suggest otherwise
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Section E:
Conditions applying when contacting the Director
1) Those contacting the Director must make allowance for the
fact that he runs this site on a voluntary, part-time basis. It does not
represent any form of full-time employment or ministry. The Director does
have other important professional commitments to fulfil.
2)
Although the Director of Y.N.Ps welcomes any clearly expressed and
substantiated criticism, he reserves the right not to enter into
correspondence about the contents, design and presentation of material on
this web site – particularly if he’s under severe domestic or professional
pressure.
3)
Enquirers are to understand that Y.N.Ps follows a strict policy of
trying to discourage the sending and receiving of unnecessary or
time-consuming e. mails, which do nothing to further its aims.
4) In
obedience to 2 John 10-11, the author reserves the right to avoid engaging
in correspondence with those militantly committed to propagating any kind
of: -
a) False teaching
b)
Bogus revelation
c) Immoral or fraudulent behaviour
d) Dubious spiritual practice
e) Hostile action against those who follow Jesus
5) An
identical policy is followed toward those whose correspondence is: -
a) Abusive, incoherent or vague
b) Presented in a non-English language
c) Prone to making groundless accusations either against the
Director or third parties
d) Incites violence
toward the Director or any third party
e) Shows other signs of either mental disorder or malicious
intention
f) Calling for harm to be done to persons or property belonging
to perceived, political, racial, religious and social ‘out groups’
6)
Also likely to go unanswered is: -
a) Any advertising
b) Any 'begging' letter
c) Any correspondence in serious contention against any of the
terms and conditions of this disclaimer
d) Any correspondence demanding why this particular site has
been placed in certain directories or appears to be associated with
ministries the correspondent may dislike.
e) Any correspondence making groundless accusations against the
Director or his web site (the Director doesn't have the time to engage in
endless rebuttals against those who are unlikely to be convinced by them)
f) Any correspondence reporting groundless accusations
made by a third party against the Director or his web site (this is particularly
the case if the party concerned has a record of making such accusations)
g) Any criticism of the author's use of satirical humour (which
he realises that people either appreciate or don't appreciate for personal
reasons)
h) Any request for pastoral help or prayer support (the author
having no gift in pastoral care)
i) Any request for ‘words of knowledge’ or any other form
of prophetic input
j) Any request to endorse other ministries or particular Churches
k) Any request to comment upon either the conduct or
doctrinal stance of third parties who are not mentioned on this site
l) Any request to mediate in disputes between third parties
m) Any request to fill in questionnaires or provide information
about third parties
n) Any request to post small or large amounts of material made
in connection with this site (The author is not a distributor and in the
unlikely event of him agreeing to such a request he would impose a
large charge on the copying and posting of even small amounts of material.
The precise amount would be decided by negotiation.)
o) Any request to undertake time consuming research
p) Any request to review edit or publish unsolicited material
q) Any request to comment upon inflammatory political, religious
and Church issues not covered by this web site
r) Any request to put people in contact with Churches,
Fellowships or prospective marriage partners!
s) Any threat of legal action by either lawyers or any other
third party
7) Correspondents
engaging in the forms of behaviour listed in the previous three conditions
will not be given any encouragement. In the vast majority of cases they
shall be ignored. However, particularly troublesome correspondents are at
risk of having their details recorded on the Directors Actively Avoid file.
These may be passed on to appropriate third parties if deemed necessary.
The same also applies to those parties who are in serious breach of any of
the other terms and conditions in this disclaimer.
8)
Readers and users of this web site are requested to destroy any material
put forward in the name of ‘Midrash-Creed’ or ‘YES-NOW
Publications’ if it contains any one of the negative characteristics
listed in conditions D3-5, (see above). The Director is not
in the business of: -
a) Asking
for money or requesting personal or financial details
b) Endorsing
commercial products
c)
Recommending other electronic or non-electronic ministries and
churches
d)
Inciting harm to be done to the person and/or property of
others
e)
Peddling heretical, pornographic, violent and/or occult
material
f)
Sending questionnaires asking people to disclose personal or financial
information - or their views on contentious issues
He
would be grateful if the recipients of such material took care to inform
the Director - particularly if they occur on a regular basis. Various forms
of action may be taken against the authors of such material.
9) Correspondence
abusing, slandering or in any other way threatening third parties may, at
the Director’s discretion, be forwarded to: -
a) Those third parties
b) Relevant legal and government agencies (particularly if the
Director judges that there could be a threat to human life and/or property)
The same condition also applies if the material of a third
party has been plagiarised, i.e. used without clear
acknowledgement of the source.
10) Its not the policy of Y.N.Ps to publish accusations made
by one party against another unless they are already firmly established in
the public domain and involve matters of exceptional gravity. As far as
possible, the Director tries to avoid being dragged into feuds between
parties he has no direct connection with.
11) The
Director will not: -
a) Disclose his name or any other personal details
b) Respond to any true or false speculation concerning his
identity
12) The
Director will not open attachments unless he personally
knows the party concerned.
13) The
author reserves the right to show to his wife all e. mails written by women
even when confidentially have been requested.
14)
Correspondents must not address the author by any honorific title
such as ‘Apostle,’ ‘Prophet,’ ‘Teacher,’ ‘Pastor’ ‘Rabbi’ or ‘Reverend’
as he is not an ordained minister of religion and would find them
personally offensive, if employed in connection with himself. Please use
the words ‘Director,’ ‘Midrash-Creed’, 'Raymond Creed' or ‘YES-NOW
Publications’ instead.
15)
Time pressures caused by domestic and professional commitments means
that the Director of Y.N.Ps can only respond to mail of a constructive,
polite and reasonable nature. He does however strongly welcome: -
a) Fair and justified
criticism (he is willing to amend his work on the basis of such
criticism)
b) Messages of encouragement and support
c) Relevant and useful information so long as it's not in the
form of an attachment
Throughout all his Publications, the author has assumed
that a clear presentation of truth provides one of the best remedies
for the many deceptions pervading an increasingly faithless Church.
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F: Conditions relating to the use of names and the respect of privacy
1) For
ethical and pragmatic reasons, it's not the policy of the Director to
disclose on the internet the names of either private individuals or
corporate bodies (such as churches and religious communities) who either he
or other parties connected to this site have been in private correspondence
with unless they have: -
a) Provided written permission (a sound state of mind, will be assumed
if such permission is granted)
b) Publicly defamed or held up to ridicule either this ministry
and/or its Director
c) Issued legal or non-legal threats towards either the Director or
a third party
2)
However, Y.N.Ps does reserve the right to name those individual and
corporate bodies should they: -
a) Have already attracted media attention
b) Placed material in the public domain through either electronic or
non-electronic means of publication.
The
above stance also applies to those holding a senior public position such as
'bishop' or 'archbishop'
3) The
confidentiality of private information sources will be respected.
Unless written permission is granted neither their names nor other personal
details will be disclosed in: -
a) Any bibliography
b) Elsewhere on his web site
c) Elsewhere on the internet
However,
if permission to use their name or disclose other details is granted, the
Director will assume that the party concerned was in a sound state of mind
when they did this. He strongly disclaims responsibility for any negative
consequences arising from such a disclosure. Such permission is granted at
the risk of the party concerned.
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G: Conditions relating to the use of humour in relation to
error
1) Readers are requested not to look up
pieces employing satirical humour if they are unlikely to find them
helpful. A satirical approach has in places been adopted because the author
believes that it's part of his ministry to 'discomfit the
comfortable.' In application of 1 Kings 18:27-29 and Isaiah
5:22 he will use satire when he believes that it's appropriate to do so.
The author however fully acknowledges that humour is a highly
subjective area and material may amuse one person another may needlessly
offend another. This explains why all literature employing satire is
clearly marked by the symbol 'S.'
2) With regard to humour, the author takes
the view that 'why shouldn't Christians have a few laughs on the way to
the apocalypse?' Life is miserable enough without being unnecessarily
gloomy or 'religious' about it. He recognises that in many of
his parables Jesus employed humour to deflate human pretensions and expose
the absurdity of religious hypocrisy.
3) The employment of humour in relation to
error does not mean that the author has failed to appreciate that error can
have serious consequences on the lives of individual people and groups.
4) Y.N.Ps is of the firm view that it's
possible for Christians to learn helpful lessons from the many errors
prevailing in this age of mass apostasy. This assumption accounts for the
insertion of study questions in some of the literature dealing
with various forms of error. The author hopes to use some of the deceptions
of his time as a means to teach people the truth and show them how easy it
is for even well meaning Christians to go astray. His intention is to use
error in order to accomplish a positive purpose in the lives of those who
believe in Jesus.
5) Third parties are most welcome to study (on
either an individual or group basis) any of the material on this web site
so long as they notify the author and observe the terms and conditions of
this disclaimer. Much of the literature produced by Y.N.Ps is
designed to provoke individual and group reflection.
6) Third parties are also welcome to use any
liturgical material for either individual or group worship so long as they
notify the author and observe the terms and conditions of this disclaimer.
This condition also applies to any poetical or devotional material, which
has been inserted elsewhere on this site.
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Section H: What next?
1) It
will be assumed that those who download, replicate, retrieve, publish, store
distribute or use in any other way all or some of the material employed on
this web site have fully understood that they have entered into a formal
contractual agreement to follow all the terms and conditions set out in
this disclaimer.
2) The
terms and conditions of this document may at any time be amended and
altered at the Director’s discretion. It’s up to regular users of this site
to re-check them and log the date they were last updated.
3) If
you wish to know why there have been so many terms and conditions in this
disclaimer, please refer to the answers given to questions fifteen and
sixteen in the overview.
4) If
you wish to know more about Y.N.Ps and the beliefs of the Director before
accepting these terms and conditions please visit ‘What
Is YES-NOW Publications?’
5) If
you are unwilling and/or unable to follow all of the above listed terms and
conditions, please do not contact the Director or employ his material for
any purpose other than private reading and study.
6) If
you are willing and able to follow all of the above listed terms and
conditions, you are most welcome to visit the rest of the site and benefit
from its services. Please return to the Literature List by clicking ‘I accept.'
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I: Miscellaneous details
1) This site was
first opened for review on Wednesday, 9th April 2003 - the day Saddam Hussein's
statue was toppled in Baghdad, following the Anglo-American invasion of
Iraq. To facilitate ease of use, it has deliberately adopted a
simple 'no frills' approach in its design. Annoying visual
representations have been excluded.
2) The name ‘YES-NOW
Publications’ first floated into the authors mind during a bus journey
back to his hometown on the evening of Saturday 13th December
2003 - the day before the announcement of Saddam Hussein's capture by
American troops in Northern Iraq. Three days later on Tuesday 16th
December 2003, it replaced the former name of ‘Punch-ball Publications,’
which had been adopted in 1998. Please note that a few directories may
still use this former name. All terms and conditions in this disclaimer
apply to this site when it was operating under this former name.
Thank you for
taking the trouble and effort to read this document. The Director hopes
that he has not presumed too much on your patience. If he has, he
apologises! However, he hopes that through providing a thorough exploration
of certain points he has prevented users from wasting their time
by making unnecessary enquiries. At least they will know where they stand
in relation to Y.N.Ps and the services it offers.
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