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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>Nick,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT><FONT face=Verdana
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>These links are still available:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>Dickison: Know Where To Draw the
Line<BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.credenda.org//old/issues/vol3/magi3-11.htm"><FONT face=Verdana
size=4>http://www.credenda.org//old/issues/vol3/magi3-11.htm</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>Dickison: Your Eye Shall Not Pity</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.credenda.org/old/issues/vol3/magi3-9.htm"><FONT
face=Verdana
size=4>http://www.credenda.org/old/issues/vol3/magi3-9.htm</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>[If these links disappear, I have copies of them
which can be sent to any requester.]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>Should it surprise anyone that once again Wilson
tells a public lie? And a <STRONG><FONT
color=#ff0000>stupid</FONT></STRONG> lie given the documents
available?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>The Cultmaster's statement:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>"I resolved a long time ago that I would not be <SPAN
class=highlight>ashamed</SPAN> of anything in the Bible."</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>is the last sentence of the article found in the
<EM>LMT</EM> archives at</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4><A
href="http://www.lmtribune.com/archives/index.php?action=show_story&story_id=2003102300481">http://www.lmtribune.com/archives/index.php?action=show_story&story_id=2003102300481</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>Or enter the <EM>LMT</EM> archives and
use</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>"doug wilson" ashamed</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>as the search parameter.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>Michael writes and asks:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">"Combine these three practices, and I think you get the
correct rhetorical formula. Because of this, I would be surprised that
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place></st1:City> actually
‘corrected’ recent teaching; could someone provide the text or a link to this
public statement? Thanks."</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT> </DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>Unfortunately, the Cultmaster with soooo many
important things to do did not provide an exact URL to his alleged change
of heart about the execution of homosexuality in his letter to the
editor.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>I remember him talking about exile instead of
death for homosexuals at one time quoting <EM>Timothy</EM>. I looked
it up at the time but concluded that perhaps Wilson had had a more than a tad
too much table wine when he wrote such an interpretation of the verses
ostensibly cited. If someone can provide the exact verses the Cultmaster
cited, then I will post their text from <EM>Young's Literal Interpretation of
the Bible</EM>. Then we could discuss his "interpretation" and whether
there are inconsistencies in the Bible.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4><BR>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<BR><A
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>From: <</FONT><A
href="mailto:nickgier@adelphia.net"><FONT
face=Verdana>nickgier@adelphia.net</FONT></A><FONT
face=Verdana>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>To: <</FONT><A
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><FONT
face=Verdana>vision2020@moscow.com</FONT></A><FONT
face=Verdana>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 9:54 AM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>Subject: [Vision2020] Wilson on the Execution of
Homosexuals</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Verdana>>
Greetings:<BR>> <BR>> So, Doug Wilson has had so many "fish to fry" that
he is just now publicly announcing, 3 1/2 years later, that a quotation on the
death penalty for homosexuals as reported in the December 11, 2003 edition of
the "Daily News" was a "gross distortion" his views.<BR>> <BR>> He claims
that the focus of that debate was on slavery, so that he didn't have time to
correct this distortion. But if you read Wilson's columns (he was alloted
three to the opposition's two) and the ads by Christ Church, you will find that
Wilson states very clearly that the issue was homosexual marriage and liberal
intolerance. What a perfect opportunity for Wilson to correct the
distorted quotation.<BR>> <BR>> Can any reasonable person believe that
Wilson has not had time in the intervening 3 1/2 years to correct this
view? Isn't more credible that his critics have correctly reported and
repeated this outrageous position so much that Wilson had to either take
responsibility for his remarks or shift his position and salvage it
somehow? He tried this on slavery and now he's doing it with regard to
homosexuality.<BR>> <BR>> In his blog entry "Execution of Homosexuals"
(August 30, 2005) Wilson begins by changing the topic. In December, 2003,
the topic was the Bible's view on slavery, which Wilson defended. What
followed naturally and logically was the Bible's position on homosexuality, and
that is where Wilson defended execution or banishment. Wilson's position was
that one should never apologize for the Word of God.<BR>> <BR>> It is
significant that no where in the August, 2005 blog entry does he say how his
December, 2003 statement was a distortion. All that he essentially does in
his blog entry is to turn the question to something very different: "how
homosexulaity should be addressed by the civil magistrate (if that magistrate
were somehow to care about what Scripture teaches.)" The other tactic
Wilson takes is to attempt to become a good Christian (keep trying, Doug!), by
saying correctly that Christ changes everything with regard to enforcing Old
Testament law. <BR>> <BR>> Interestingly, this was not the position
of Greg Dickison in his articles "Your Eye Should not Pity" and "Know Where to
Draw the Line" (Credena Agenda, vol. 3, nos. 9, 11). As far as I know,
Wilson has not disputed this article, but mysteriously this entire volume has
disappeared from the Credenda archives. Dickison offers no flexibility or
grace for the Christian magistrate, who, "when we have it our way," will enforce
Old Testament law without exception, for to pity the sinner is itself a
sin.<BR>> <BR>> So when Wilson's Christianity hits the pagan and
unreconstructed Christian beach chairs like a tsunami (it's right there in "My
Town") and when only propertied Christian males will be voting (also in "My
Town"), I am certain that Dickison will be appointed the first Christian
magistrate and their eyes will not pity.<BR>> <BR>> Yours for no Wilsonian
Tsunamis,<BR>> <BR>> Nick Gier<BR>> <BR>> <BR>>
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