Dennis Muses: In a multitude of actual counsel there could have been safety..... 2013

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2013 2013 2013 <div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013 Making It Mean What It Never Meant Award</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Awarded for the Most Ridiculous Theological Misreading and Misuse of Scripture for 2013</span></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="the golden turd photo: Golden Turd Golden-Turd-Award.jpg" data-link="src{:thumbUrl} alt{:alt}" src="https://2img.net/h/i122.photobucket.com/albums/o256/bluefalcon_1212/bth_Golden-Turd-Award.jpg" /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><br /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Presented to David C Pack of the Restored Church of God for successfully making the obscure Minor Prophet Haggai mean what it never meant, could mean or ever will mean. </span></div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> This evening marks the official end of these ridiculous speculations and analogies gone crazy and the dawn of a new day in the history of the Churches of God.  Truly, truly Sabbath, August 31, 2013 was-is-will be  a Sabbath like no other. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">It was on this day enlightenment came to a few more "I'm stuck in this seat and can't get up," brethren giving what they have not got in exchange for a  church that returns precious little to them but embarrassment, humiliation, fairy tales disguised as sermons, theological nonsense and large bills yet another small fundamentalist religious school and fabulous "Headquarters."  </span></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;">I am pleased to present this award on behalf of thousands who have watched this theo-drama unfold over the past few months and hung in there to see it through. </span><br /><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></blockquote></div><br /><img alt="The Bobs - Best of Online Activism" class="imglt" height="164" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRUTVLOGYXor9DyrRaYIaniKXeDBXpU3wfojnOhGNWe1JwQ4yUx:thebobs.com/en/wp-content/uploads/image/cc%2520vote%2520feet.jpg" title="The Bobs - Best of Online Activism" width="306" /></div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let those with ears to hear and eyes to see just go ahead and use them at this time to free themselves once and for all from the religion pretending to be spirituality and human imagination and reasonings masking as Biblical insights and truth.</span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">We wish Deacon David C Pack  no ill will but that he would repent and fill in his 35 question Ex-Apostle Rehire Forms as soon as possible.  It may take a few seconds to get an answer, so please be patient. </span></div><br /><a href="http://search.aol.com/aol/imageDetails?s_it=imageDetails&q=shame+pictures&img=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gibbsmagazine.com%2FMPj03414090000%255B1%255D.jpg&v_t=keyword_rollover&host=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gibbsmagazine.com%2FShame.htm&width=118&height=165&thumbUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcQPSEookx1DlQsvj7Fnx5FlL_-DUKbvSzXueoZVjy1P6n1SwTKbs6hmyk8%3Awww.gibbsmagazine.com%2FMPj03414090000%25255B1%25255D.jpg&b=image%3Fq%3Ds%3DimageResultsBack%26v_t%3Dkeyword_rollover%26oreq%3D7f53cf99771545c4876106fe14008977&imgHeight=600&imgWidth=428&imgTitle=Shame&imgSize=9944&hostName=www.gibbsmagazine.com"><img alt="Shame" height="165" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQPSEookx1DlQsvj7Fnx5FlL_-DUKbvSzXueoZVjy1P6n1SwTKbs6hmyk8:www.gibbsmagazine.com/MPj03414090000%255B1%255D.jpg" title="Shame" width="118" /></a></div><div align="center"><br />Lessons of the Year<br /><b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">Proverbs 11:14</span></b><br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of (Genuine) counselors there is safety.</span></blockquote><br /><span class="p"></span><br /><div class="heading passage-class-0"><h3><span class="p"><span style="font-size: large;">1 Corinthians 13</span> </span></h3><br /><div class="txt-sm"><span class="p">New International Version (NIV)</span></div><div class="txt-sm"></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="txt-sm"></div></blockquote></div><blockquote><span class="p"></span></blockquote><div class="passage version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html "><blockquote><div class="chapter-2"><span class="p"><span class="text 1Cor-13-1" id="en-NIV-28667"><span class="chapternum">13 </span>If I speak in the tongues<sup class="footnote" value="[<a href="#fen-NIV-28667a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+13&version=NIV#fen-NIV-28667a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</sup> of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.</span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-2" id="en-NIV-28668"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains,<b><span style="font-size: large;"> (which Restored Church did not have, could not fathom and moveth not)</span></b> but do not have love,<span style="color: lime;"><b><span style="color: blue;"> I am nothing</span>.</b></span></span><b> </b><span class="text 1Cor-13-3" id="en-NIV-28669"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,<sup class="footnote" value="[<a href="#fen-NIV-28669b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]">[<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+13&version=NIV#fen-NIV-28669b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</sup></span><span class="text 1Cor-13-3" id="en-NIV-28669"><sup> </sup>but do not have love, I gain nothing.</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote><span class="p"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span class="text 1Cor-13-4" id="en-NIV-28670"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.</span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-5" id="en-NIV-28671"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.</span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-6" id="en-NIV-28672"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.</span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-7" id="en-NIV-28673"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.</span></b></span></span></blockquote><br />(One might substitute "ministry" for the world "love" in the above)<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br /><br /><span class="p"><span class="text 1Cor-13-8" id="en-NIV-28674"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.</span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-9" id="en-NIV-28675"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>For we know in part and we prophesy in part,</span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-10" id="en-NIV-28676"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.</span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-11" id="en-NIV-28677"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.</span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-12" id="en-NIV-28678"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.</span></span><br /><span class="p"><span class="text 1Cor-13-13" id="en-NIV-28679"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.</span></span></blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> While disturbing at times, it's been an enjoyable adventure in seeing just how far aberrant theology can go. </span></div><span class="p"></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nasb/proverbs/11.htm"></a></span><br /></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br> 2013 2013 2013 <br><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2013 Making It Mean What It Never Meant Award</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Awarded for the Most Ridiculous Theological Misreading and Misuse of Scripture for 2013</span></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="the golden turd photo: Golden Turd Golden-Turd-Award.jpg" data-link="src{:thumbUrl} alt{:alt}" src="https://2img.net/h/i122.photobucket.com/albums/o256/bluefalcon_1212/bth_Golden-Turd-Award.jpg" /></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><br /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: large;">Presented to David C Pack of the Restored Church of God for successfully making the obscure Minor Prophet Haggai mean what it never meant, could mean or ever will mean. </span></div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> This evening marks the official end of these ridiculous speculations and analogies gone crazy and the dawn of a new day in the history of the Churches of God.  Truly, truly Sabbath, August 31, 2013 was-is-will be  a Sabbath like no other. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">It was on this day enlightenment came to a few more "I'm stuck in this seat and can't get up," brethren giving what they have not got in exchange for a  church that returns precious little to them but embarrassment, humiliation, fairy tales disguised as sermons, theological nonsense and large bills yet another small fundamentalist religious school and fabulous "Headquarters."  </span></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;">I am pleased to present this award on behalf of thousands who have watched this theo-drama unfold over the past few months and hung in there to see it through. </span><br /><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></blockquote></div><br /><img alt="The Bobs - Best of Online Activism" class="imglt" height="164" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRUTVLOGYXor9DyrRaYIaniKXeDBXpU3wfojnOhGNWe1JwQ4yUx:thebobs.com/en/wp-content/uploads/image/cc%2520vote%2520feet.jpg" title="The Bobs - Best of Online Activism" width="306" /></div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let those with ears to hear and eyes to see just go ahead and use them at this time to free themselves once and for all from the religion pretending to be spirituality and human imagination and reasonings masking as Biblical insights and truth.</span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">We wish Deacon David C Pack  no ill will but that he would repent and fill in his 35 question Ex-Apostle Rehire Forms as soon as possible.  It may take a few seconds to get an answer, so please be patient. </span></div><br /><a href="http://search.aol.com/aol/imageDetails?s_it=imageDetails&q=shame+pictures&img=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gibbsmagazine.com%2FMPj03414090000%255B1%255D.jpg&v_t=keyword_rollover&host=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gibbsmagazine.com%2FShame.htm&width=118&height=165&thumbUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcQPSEookx1DlQsvj7Fnx5FlL_-DUKbvSzXueoZVjy1P6n1SwTKbs6hmyk8%3Awww.gibbsmagazine.com%2FMPj03414090000%25255B1%25255D.jpg&b=image%3Fq%3Ds%3DimageResultsBack%26v_t%3Dkeyword_rollover%26oreq%3D7f53cf99771545c4876106fe14008977&imgHeight=600&imgWidth=428&imgTitle=Shame&imgSize=9944&hostName=www.gibbsmagazine.com"><img alt="Shame" height="165" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQPSEookx1DlQsvj7Fnx5FlL_-DUKbvSzXueoZVjy1P6n1SwTKbs6hmyk8:www.gibbsmagazine.com/MPj03414090000%255B1%255D.jpg" title="Shame" width="118" /></a></div><div align="center"><br />Lessons of the Year<br /><b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">Proverbs 11:14</span></b><br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of (Genuine) counselors there is safety.</span></blockquote><br /><span class="p"></span><br /><div class="heading passage-class-0"><h3><span class="p"><span style="font-size: large;">1 Corinthians 13</span> </span></h3><br /><div class="txt-sm"><span class="p">New International Version (NIV)</span></div><div class="txt-sm"></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="txt-sm"></div></blockquote></div><blockquote><span class="p"></span></blockquote><div class="passage version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html "><blockquote><div class="chapter-2"><span class="p"><span class="text 1Cor-13-1" id="en-NIV-28667"><span class="chapternum">13 </span>If I speak in the tongues<sup class="footnote" value="[<a href="#fen-NIV-28667a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+13&version=NIV#fen-NIV-28667a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</sup> of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.</span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-2" id="en-NIV-28668"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains,<b><span style="font-size: large;"> (which Restored Church did not have, could not fathom and moveth not)</span></b> but do not have love,<span style="color: lime;"><b><span style="color: blue;"> I am nothing</span>.</b></span></span><b> </b><span class="text 1Cor-13-3" id="en-NIV-28669"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,<sup class="footnote" value="[<a href="#fen-NIV-28669b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]">[<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+13&version=NIV#fen-NIV-28669b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</sup></span><span class="text 1Cor-13-3" id="en-NIV-28669"><sup> </sup>but do not have love, I gain nothing.</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote><span class="p"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span class="text 1Cor-13-4" id="en-NIV-28670"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.</span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-5" id="en-NIV-28671"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.</span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-6" id="en-NIV-28672"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.</span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-7" id="en-NIV-28673"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.</span></b></span></span></blockquote><br />(One might substitute "ministry" for the world "love" in the above)<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br /><br /><span class="p"><span class="text 1Cor-13-8" id="en-NIV-28674"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.</span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-9" id="en-NIV-28675"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>For we know in part and we prophesy in part,</span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-10" id="en-NIV-28676"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.</span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-11" id="en-NIV-28677"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.</span> <span class="text 1Cor-13-12" id="en-NIV-28678"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.</span></span><br /><span class="p"><span class="text 1Cor-13-13" id="en-NIV-28679"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.</span></span></blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> While disturbing at times, it's been an enjoyable adventure in seeing just how far aberrant theology can go. </span></div><span class="p"></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nasb/proverbs/11.htm"></a></span><br /></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br>2013 2013 2013 <br> <a href="http://www.matrixar.com/" title="Matrix ">المصفوفة : أجمل الخلفيات والصور</a>