I think there should always be some sort of AS that must be signed - but not every year (or every 2 years) like some sort of nanny thing. The way it is, it's just belligerent and silly.
However, when we go back to the fact that in 1992 the vast majority of ministers had signed on under the old "Required Reading" plan, and the fact that plan included PCI material that mitigated the harsher aspects of the PAJC view - then what the General Board and the General Conference did in 1992 was illegal, unethical and immoral. This is the point that I think needs to be brought up and argued at a GC.
Without even realizing it, WE changed everything. When I first signed for my card in 1985 I thought I was subscribing to J.H.D.'s interpretation of Romans 4:17 and that I was NOT a part of a group that condemned every other Christian organization as being "lost."
When I signed again in 1993 - I thought I was just re-upping, as it were. In time, I learned that I was wrong. Our doctrine had officially been changed and we had become something that I never would have joined in the first place. And, that change was made in an underhanded and delibertly deceitfull fashion.
There are several men who need to be flown in to the next General Conference, lined up on the platform and the entire assembly should pass by, shake their hand and apologize. We owe them at least that much.
Aaaaah, the old "Document from Hell" discussion.
Goodness knows as do others that have been on these forums for years that I have solidly condemned that infernal document and the preceedings that led up to it. I was THERE in 1992 and saw the whole travesty from the beginning.
I wrote an article dealing with this hellish matter entitled "The Broken Reed and the Rod of God." I will send it to whomever would like to have it. Just send me a PM with your email address.
Bro. VanderHoff was my uncle. He passed in 1988 but I wish I could have known him more. I didn't realize until just the last few years what kind of man he really was and how influential his ministry was so long ago.
I was a kid, and he was just an uncle, but I wish to talk to him now.
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Bro. VanderHoff was my uncle. He passed in 1988 but I wish I could have known him more. I didn't realize until just the last few years what kind of man he really was and how influential his ministry was so long ago.
I was a kid, and he was just an uncle, but I wish to talk to him now.
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