As a result, a preacher/teacher/leader also has a platform to speak from in their own religious circles, often has the invitation to speak in other cirlces, might reasonably request the permission to speak in other circles or even create entirely new contexts in which to speak. Buzzworm: New Age/environmental periodical. Flag Service Organization, Tampa, FL: Promotes Church of Scientology philosophy. "Nehemiah stood by the destroyed city of Jerusalem. But investigating such things requires both a sound biblical position, and sanctified journalistic skills. Many of them are members of an international extremist anti-gay movement whose adherents call themselves the Watchmen on the Walls. Watchmen on the wall forum bravenet.com. Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship International, Author Ford, Philadelphia, PA: Spiritualism, metaphysics, paranormal phenomena, ESP, biofeedback, holistic health. Dallas Fellowship, Inc., Arlington, TX: New Age; uses The URANTIA Book as their main text. Publishes the Lightworker newspaper. Chiromancy: See Palm Reading. Now that the canon is complete there is no new doctrinal revelation (Revelation 22:18-19), only a clearer understanding in the Last Days of what is already in there (Daniel 12:4). Many different groups hold to universalism from various perspectives and for diverse (and sometimes opposing) reasons.
"'But if the watchman sees war coming and doesn't blow the trumpet, warning the people, and war comes and takes anyone off, I'll hold the watchman responsible for the bloodshed of any unwarned sinner. These are true brethren who are naïve, lacking in discernment, and in certain areas deficient in spiritual wisdom and Christian maturity. Do) and 38 other members committed suicide in March of 1997, believing that by leaving their bodies behind they could join Nettles (a. Ti) and other "older members" from "the next level above human" on a UFO supposedly hidden behind the Hale-Bopp comet. SYDA: See Siddha Yoga Dham of America. The most essential difference however is that Old Testament prophets wrote the canon of Old Covenant scripture as the Apostles wrote the New Testament. Watchmen on the wall forum. Miller, who claims to be one of the two end-time prophets mentioned in the Revelation 11, published Report from Concerned Christians and Take Heed Update. Modified forms of this doctrine can be found in the teachings of William Branham, some Apostolic churches and the United Pentecostal Church. Whatever Lance Lambert may be, he is certainly no watchman. R I Research, New York, NY: New Age; selects people called Beyonders, claims to possess Superior Essence. Communion Letter, San Antonio, TX: UFO periodical. CAUSA: Organization affiliated with the Unification Church.
The springboard for this sermon is the story of Nehemiah rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. Biblical Church of God, Santa Cruz, CA: Armstrongism splinter group. Fortunetelling: A form of divination in which a person attempts to predict the future using alleged paranormal powers. Last year, Smits was elevated to chair the Latvian Parliament's Human Rights Commission. The watchman on the wall. These methods are believed to involve an intense social influence conditioning program which may include a closed system of authoritarian control, manipulative, group dynamics, a system of punishment and rewards, induced dissociation or trance induction, information control, fraud, coercion, and double binds. Groups across the country go under various names (e. g., Fort Worth Bible Students, Chicago Bible Students, etc.
Wierwille, Victor Paul: See The Way International. Kevin Burgess (a real 'cyberworld fruit cake' if there ever was one) has attacked Mike Oppenheimer, a Jewish brother who directs the Hawaii based TV and radio discernment ministry 'Come Let Us Reason'. OAHSPE is translated "sky, earth, spirit. " Publishes Upside Down magazine. Thus, cult can describe religious leaders or organizations that employ abusive, manipulative, or illegal control over their followers' lives. Lotus: New Age periodical. Spiritism: Specifically, the belief found in many primitive Cultures that inanimate objects, plants and/or animals are possessed by spirits (good or evil) which must be appeased through occult practices.
Scientology: See Church of Scientology. Reincarnation: Belief originating with religions of the East (e. g. Hinduism) that when a person dies he has the ability to come again to the earth, inhabit a new body, and live as many lives as needed to progress towards a religious goal. The group is now defunct. Bible Talks: Home and campus group studies sponsored by the International Churches of Christ. Singh, Sant Thakar: See Kirpal Light Satsang. Aum leader, Chizuo Matsumoto (now called Shoko Asahara), predicted the end of the world between 1997 and 2000. Devotion to Krishna has been introduced in the West especially through the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Esoteric Order of Dagon, Soror Azenath 23rd, Abita Springs, LA: Channel the energy of the Nu Aeon, collective magical unconsciousness, worship the Old Ones or Old Gods. Muscle Testing: See Applied Kinesiology. Sadly, this fad-to-fad pattern exactly mimics the behavior of the people who still follow false prophets with failed prophetic predictions of Revival from Kansas City to Toronto to Pensacola (the latest is Wykoff, New Jersey and some little town in Missouri) even though they know they were wrong the last time (Jeremiah 5:30-31). No Pride is a group organized and funded by New Generation Church member Igors Maslakovs.
On April 6, 2001, the name of the RLDS group was officially changed to Community of Christ. See Baptismal Regeneration. But this view is not based on conjecture, but rather published and substantiated fact. This translation has been universally rejected as inaccurate by competent Bible scholars. Denies Trinity, personality of the Holy Spirit, and the bodily resurrection.
Membership includes Jesus, Buddha, St. Germain (see I AM movement), Ramtha (see Knight, J. White, Ellen G. : See Seventh-day Adventist Church. Foundation Church of the New Birth: See Foundation Church of Divine Truth. Publishes the Theologia 21 newsletter.
TTaff, Signe Quinn Sedona, AZ: New Age, astrology. Not related to the following entry. Ironically, many of them emigrated to the United States beginning in the late 1980s to escape religious persecution in what was then still part of the Soviet Union. ) Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.
Mind Sciences: A generic, general classification of religious groups that hold to the belief that human beings are inherently divine and that mind or thoughts are energy forms that can create and/or alter reality. Summit Lighthouse/Summit University: See Church Universal and Triumphant. Predictably, the most extreme proponents of Y2K mania were not Pentecostals, but hyper-calvinists such as Reconstructionist Gary North, D. James Kennedy and R. C. Sproul as well as the more moderately Calvinistic Jerry Falwell. Meditating on, affirmation of, or "naming" of an object or goal, which supposedly creates the desired effect through "mind over matter. " Watchman Fellowship usually uses the term cult with a Christian or doctrinal definition in mind. Universal Network, Aztec, NM: UFOs, space communiqués, cosmic telepathy, spiritual hierarchy.