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<DIV><FONT size=2>Yes, according to Cultmaster Wilson's so-called theology and
the logical conclusions that can be drawn from it, almost everyone is SOL
when it comes to salvation and being able to buddy it up with God, Jesus, and
the rest of the glorious gang including Wilson for eternity.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>However, Wilson has an even more radical plan to enforce
doctrinal purity. Pasted below is Greg Dickison's now infamous essay "Your
Eye Shall not Pity" which appeared in the cults journal
<EM>Credenda/Agenda</EM>, the journal that discusses the cult's world
view and how they plan to achieve it, and for which Wilson is/was the
editor-in-chief.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>If you are not doctrinally pure (read: espouse Wilson's
particular theological views and practices), then you should be executed.
And without pity. Isn't that a wonderfully generous position to be held by
someone who alleges he believes that his alleged God is
omnibenevolent?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>also quite revealing is the following:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>"... which Pastor Wilson believes
<STRONG>would</STRONG> send them to Hell if they truly believed them the way the
Catholic Church teaches them, such as the Church’s teaching on the veneration of
Holy Images, which he holds to be idolatry."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Even a dull child of five knows that there is a difference
between a word and the object it denotes. "Jesus" the word is different
from Jesus the man. Similarly, there is a difference between a visual or
material representation, which like a word, is a symbol pointing to Jesus and
Jesus the man himself. A statute of Jesus is different from Jesus
himself. Only a fool or a very subnormal human would or could confuse the
two.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>People like Wilson himself who use the word "Jesus" do not
worship the word but the object, the man Jesus, it denotes.
Similarly, people generally do not worship the material symbols like paintings
and statutes that represent Jesus, but Jesus himself. Such people are not
worshiping idols, but worshipping Jesus. The symbols are pointers just
like words.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Sometimes very emotional and not real bright people fail to
distinguish between symbols and the objects they represent. The classic
example is that of a country bumpkin who, unable to distinguish between an actor
as a man and the role he plays, runs up onto the stage in the middle of a play
and knocks the actor playing the villain down because the bumpkin is
offended by the treatment by the villain of the actress playing the role of
the heroine.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Confusion of a symbol with the object denoted is such a
transparent fallacy that it is extremely improbable that Wilson is unaware of
the fallaciousness of his position.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>However, like many other of his transparently fallacious
positions, he continues to hold and argue for it. Why?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>"There's one born every minute." "A fool and his money
are soon parted."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Wilson has lived high on the hog, travel extensively, basked
in (sometimes enforced or contrived) adoration, and exercised great power over
many people's lives. with his line of transparently fallacious mumbo
jumbo. In my opinion, such behavior in the light of Wilson's transparently
credulous theology makes Wilson a con artist and his religious views the
hook. When someone says "We are the saints, the rest of the world are
sinners," use one hand to protect your wallet or purse and the other hand to
protect your genitals.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Credulous people who cannot or do not wish to apply reason and
thus fall for fanciful stories are easy marks. I see no difference between
Wilson's ovine flock and those who believe that Judgment Day is May 21st, except
the latter do not appear to demand doctrinal purity or death.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV><FONT size=2>
<DIV><BR>Wayne A. Fox<BR>1009 Karen Lane<BR>PO Box 9421<BR>Moscow, ID
83843</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="mailto:waf@moscow.com">waf@moscow.com</A><BR>208
882-7975</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>____________________________________________</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><B><I><FONT size=6 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=6
face="Times New Roman">
<P align=left>Magistralis</P></I></FONT></FONT><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">
<P align=left>Your Eye Shall Not Pity</P></FONT></FONT><I><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">
<P align=left>Greg Dickison</P></B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">
<P align=left>The civil magistrate is the minister of God to execute wrath on
the wrongdoer (Rom.</P>
<P align=left>13:4). God has not left his civil minister without guidance on how
to exercise his</P>
<P align=left>office. The Scriptures set forth clear standards of judgment for
many offenses. Capital</P>
<P align=left>crimes, for example, include premeditated killing (murder),
kidnapping, sorcery,</P>
<P align=left>bestiality, adultery, homosexuality, and cursing one's parents
(Ex. 21:14; 21:16;</P>
<P align=left>22:18; 22:19; Lev. 20:10; 20:13; Ex. 21:17).</P>
<P align=left>In contemporary American jurisprudence, none of these offenses is
punishable by death, with the</P>
<P align=left>occasional exception of murder. The magistrates have dispensed
with God's standards of justice.</P>
<P align=left>Some Christians believe this is an improvement. They would be
horrified to think that the "harsh"</P>
<P align=left>penalties of the law should still be applied. Sometimes this is
the result of the mistaken belief that</P>
<P align=left>the Old Testament has no further application after the advent of
Christ. This is an exegetical</P>
<P align=left>problem. Too often, it is the result of a sinful view of the
criminal. This sin is called pity.</P>
<P align=left>Pity is a compassionate and sympathetic response to another's
distress. It manifests itself by some</P>
<P align=left>action deemed to be beneficent to the one who is the object of the
pity. It is characterized by the</P>
<P align=left>thought, "There, but for the grace of God, go I." So what is wrong
with that? Why is pity a sin?</P>
<P align=left>First, pity is not </FONT></FONT><I><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">always
</I></FONT></FONT><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman">a sin. But neither is it always good. The Bible teaches
that the moral</P>
<P align=left>character of pity depends on the context in which it is
exercised.</P></FONT></FONT><I><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman">
<P align=left>He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, and He will pay
back what he has given </I></FONT></FONT><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">(Prov.</P>
<P align=left>19:17). Pity toward the poor is good. David was condemned by God
when he did </FONT></FONT><I><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman">not </I></FONT></FONT><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">take pity on</P>
<P align=left>Uriah, a poor man (2 Sam. 12:110). David sought pity when he was
under the reproach of his</P>
<P align=left>enemies (Ps. 69:20). It would have been a comfort to him in his
adversity. If God had not taken</P>
<P align=left>pity on His people, we would all be lost in our sins (Is.
63:9).</P></FONT></FONT><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman">
<P align=left>There are also examples of God's refusal to have pity, as when
Jerusalem defiled His sanctuary</P>
<P align=left>(Ez. 5:11). Likewise, God included in the law specific
prohibitions against the exercise of pity in</P>
<P align=left>meting out punishment.</P></FONT></FONT><I><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">
<P align=left>If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your
daughter, the wife of your bosom, or</P>
<P align=left>your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying,
"Let us go and serve other</P>
<P align=left>gods,". . . you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor
shall your eye pity him, nor shall you</P>
<P align=left>spare him or conceal him; but you shall surely kill him . . .
</I></FONT></FONT><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman">(Deut. 13:69).</P></FONT></FONT><I><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">
<P align=left>But if anyone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises
against him and strikes him mortally,</P>
<P align=left>so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities, then the
elders of his city shall send and bring</P>
<P align=left>him from there, and deliver him over to the hand of the avenger of
blood, that he may die. Your</P>
<P align=left>eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of
innocent blood from Israel, that it may</P>
<P align=left>go well with you </I></FONT></FONT><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">(Deut.
19:1113).</P></FONT></FONT><I><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman">
<P align=left>If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of
wrongdoing, then both men in the</P>
<P align=left>controversy shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and
the judges who serve in those</P>
<P align=left>days. And the judges shall make diligent inquiry, and indeed, if
the witness is a false witness, who</P>
<P align=left>has testified falsely against his brother, then you shall do to
him as he thought to have done to his</P>
<P align=left>brother, so you shall put away the evil person from among you.
Your eye shall not pity . . . </I></FONT></FONT><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">(Deut.</P>
<P align=left>19.1619, 21).</P></FONT></FONT><I><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">
<P align=left>If two men fight together, and the wife of one draws near to
rescue her husband from the hand of</P>
<P align=left>the one attacking him, and puts out the hand and seizes him by the
genitals, then you shall cut off</P>
<P align=left>her hand; your eye shall not pity her </I></FONT></FONT><FONT
size=5 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">(Deut. 25:11,
12).</P>
<P align=left>The tendency of modern American law is to look at whether the
particular </FONT></FONT><I><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman">criminal </I></FONT></FONT><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">deserves the</P>
<P align=left>penalty involved. Witnesses are brought in (usually the
defendant's mother) to say that Johnny is</P>
<P align=left>really a good boy who just got in with the wrong crowd and
deserves another chance. Or the</P>
<P align=left>judge considers whether the accused is sorry for what he did.
Those who side with the victim can</P>
<P align=left>go to the other extreme; the prosecutor is allowed to bring in
witnesses to testify to what a great</P>
<P align=left>guy the victim was, or to the impact of the crime on the victim's
family. Justice becomes a contest</P>
<P align=left>to see which side can generate the most pity.</P>
<P align=left>God commands the judge to evaluate the </FONT></FONT><I><FONT
size=5 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">crime
</I></FONT></FONT><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman">rather than the criminal. If the crime is one for</P>
<P align=left>which God requires death, then death must be the punishment. Your
eye </FONT></FONT><I><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman">shall not pity</I></FONT></FONT><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">. Neither is</P>
<P align=left>the repentance of the accused relevant to the imposition of the
sentence. When it was discovered</P>
<P align=left>that Achan had kept some of the spoil of Jericho, Joshua beseeched
him to repent. </FONT></FONT><I><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman">And Achan</P>
<P align=left>answered Joshua and said, `Indeed, I have sinned against the Lord
God of Israel, and this is</P>
<P align=left>what I have done . . . </I></FONT></FONT><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">(Josh. 7:19-20).
After Achan confessed, he was still stoned to death.</P></FONT></FONT><FONT
size=5 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">
<P align=left>Thus, the Bible teaches that pity is not an option where God has
decided the matter. The</P>
<P align=left>magistrate, God's minister, is to faithfully execute justice
according to God's standard, not man's.</P>
<P align=left>What the Bible does </FONT></FONT><I><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">not
</I></FONT></FONT><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5
face="Times New Roman">teach is that the preaching of the gospel and repentance
have no place on</P>
<P align=left>death row. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a place where there is a
more immediate need of grace,</P>
<P align=left>and a presentation of the gospel should be the first response of
Christians to those who are</P>
<P align=left>condemned. But condemnation still must come if we are to be
obedient to God's Word. We must</P>
<P align=left>respond to the wrongdoer biblically in both judgment and
grace.</P>
<P align=left>This means that we must return to an obedience which confines pity
within the bounds which</P>
<P align=left>God has established for us.</P></FONT></FONT><B><I><FONT size=2
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman">
<P align=left>Credenda/Agenda Vol. 3, No.
9</P></B></I></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=ghazi@uidaho.edu href="mailto:ghazi@uidaho.edu">S.M. Ghazanfar</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=deco@moscow.com
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">Art Deco</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 18, 2011 7:42
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Tell Me The
Difference</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Doug Wilson's other candidates for hell: all l.8 billion
Muslims, about a billion Hindus, about a billion Confucists/Budhists, and, of
course, the atheists/agnostics, and all those 'other' Christians, etc. etc. --
and that means almost the entire global population (about 7 billion)......it
will be such a diverse group, though.<BR><BR>On 5/18/2011 19:05, Art Deco
wrote:
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<DIV><FONT size=2>What is the difference in the levels of crackpotiness and
intolerance between the Potlatch Preacher, <FONT size=3><FONT
size=2>Lloyd Knerr</FONT> </FONT>at the Freeze Church who claims that all
Mormons will go to hell and Cultmaster/Parson Douglas Wilson who claims that
all Catholics would believe the doctrines of that church will go to
hell?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Isn't wonderful that we have two such gifted persons who
knows exactly what some alleged God has determined as far as alleged
salvation goes? Isn't it wonderful that Wilson can also maintain that
salvation depends on "a true faith in Jesus" but also hold, as a Calvinist,
that whether someone will achieve salvation was determined by God at the
moment of creation? [Of course the only "true faith in Jesus" is the
one Wilson preaches. Preacher Knerr also thinks that he is preaching
the only "true faith in Jesus."]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Wasn't/Isn't it wonderful and heartwarming that some
alleged omnipotent, omniscient God made so clear and unequivocal to
humankind that there cannot be any doubt or dispute about what the "true
faith" is?</FONT></DIV>
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<H2> </H2>
<H2>Doug Wilson Weighs in on the Eternal Fate of Faithful Catholics </H2>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><A
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