I had forwarded the latest FAIR newsletter (www.fairlds.org if you're interested, and click on publications for the latest issue. There's a Christmas message there, too, by someone y'all might know) to my Dad, amongst others, with a foreword specifically about the Tom Murphy issue. Here's his response, as well as my counter-response:
Dad: The deviousness of this reminds me a lot of the book that presently got elevated to my bathroom bookshelf, titled: "Restoring the Ancient Church," by Barry Robert Bickmore, published by FAIR. You gave it to me for my birthday in 2000. It describes how the Gifts were gradually lost during the first couple centuries, causing Christianity to break up into many disagreeing factors, but primarily Jewish, Gnostic and Catholic faiths. Being stripped of the Holy Ghost and other Gifts, the Gnostics tried to "reason" their way to acceptance, based a lot on the Greek methods used by many of the Greek philosophers. It is interesting to note that Murphy, like so many of his kind, having rebelled against the Truth, attempts similar, and just as erroneous "logic" to justify his opinion. My point is that those who *genuinely* seek the truth will find it, just like you and I have. As for those who search for other than the truth, well, even if you removed every type of "Murphy" from existence, they still won't accept the truth simply because they don't *want* to -- they're rebellious! This doesn't mean we shouldn't expose these Murphys because, if we didn't, how would the truth seekers find the Spark, opening the door for the Holy Ghost to testify of the truth. Son: I think it was Elder Boyd K. Packer who once referred to this as "tripping over one's own professionalism." Ironically in Murphy's case, he's a wannabe "Grey Owl", meaning a European who is more native than the natives, but in the process he's co-opting their history using the tools of European science -- in this case, anthropology. That's exactly what he accuses the Church of, so it's very ironic. P.S. Non-Canadians might not get the Grey Owl reference, so I'll explain that he was an Englishman who moved to Canada sometime in the early part of the 20th century and passed himself off as an Ojibway Indian. He immersed himself so deeply in their culture that very few knew of his "deception," except that it was not meant at all in a malignant way. His secret was only revealed by a trusted friend after his death. Details for the death certificate and all that, you know. One finds this in Europeans sometimes -- I've seen it in Germans myself, in fact, and it's one of the reasons we get so many German tourists in Alberta (besides the skiing). -- Marc A. Schindler Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada -- Gateway to the Boreal Parkland “Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.” – Lord Chesterfield Note: This communication represents the informal personal views of the author solely; its contents do not necessarily reflect those of the author’s employer, nor those of any organization with which the author may be associated. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ==^^=============================================================== This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^^===============================================================
