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Date Posted: 08:12:41 01/07/03 Tue
Author: Dolly Llama
Subject: Jack Howell's Argumentum ad Hominem Attacks & Anthropomorphite God

Rt. Rev. Serpent Egg, Inc. hatched this comment about Dolly Llama: � To try to equate Dake's view of God with Mormonism is dishonest, unscholarly, uninformed, ignorant, wicked, and downright foolish and reveals that those who do so really have no clue as to what they are talking about or what Dake actually taught.�

Speaking of, �unscholarly�, �ignorant�, lacking in �knowledgeable� exegesis, and the �truly foolish� practice of �glorifying� himself, AGAIN��. I have not only indicated his doctrinal error previously, but his �ignorant� and �unknowledgeable� spelling errors as well. � For the sake of being �scholarly�, and un-�foolish� they are left in their original form below. Gotta love a man who is so pridefully foolish and puffed up in his own mind as to try to insult others with non-applicable ad hom attacks such as �ignorant� and �uninformed� and not even have enough knowledge within himself to be able to SPELL KNOWLEDGE!

Rt. Rev. Serpent Egg, Inc quote: �As most ignorant and uninformed "teachers" do, they attempt to equate what Rev. Dake believed about God to the Mormon view of God, which as any INFORMED person knows, are miles apart. The Mormon doctrine of God states that the Godhead is actually three distinct gods, each of whom was at one time a man who became glorifed to the status of "godhood" which status each and every Mormon male hopes to attain. As anyone trully knowledgable of Dake's theology knows, Dake never taught any such thing, and soundly rejected the Mormon idea of God. To try to equate Dake's view of God with Mormonism is dishonest, unscholarly, uninformed, ignorant, wicked, and downright foolish and reveals that those who do so really have no clue as to what they are talking about or what Dake actually taught.�

Just as we have exposed Serpent Egg as being a humorless, twit (that can�t even spell Knowledgeable when accusing others of not being �informed�!) We find Jackie duped by the plainly ANTHROPOMORPHIC LANGUAGE used in scripture. For example, where Scripture referring to God's "hands", "eyes", "ears", and so forth (e.g., Deut. 33:27; Ps. 11:4; Isa. 59:1). Jackie�s Dakite cult has misrepresented these and many other passages to fit their aberrant template. We see also that God is at times represented as if He had specific locality (e.g., Genesis 11:5,7; Psalm 2:4). Some teachers and sects draw from such passages the notion that God "has a body." However, that this is not the case can be easily seen when we consider the whole of Scripture. It should be evident from the many clear statements cited above that such language cannot be taken literally.

Such statements are called anthropomorphisms - these are metaphorical expressions used by God as an accommodation (or, condescension) to our finite understanding. Simply put, God speaks to us on our finite level, chiefly because we cannot ascend to His infinite level. (11) In the same way, God is represented as "discovering" information, "repenting," and so forth. That God has revealed truth about Himself in this way should not surprise us. Paul recognized this very fact in 1 Corinthians 13:12. To literalize such language is the ancient error of the sect known as the Anthropomorphites (Greek, anthros = man, morph = form). But surely Jackie the resident cut and paste Greek scholar had a senior moment and overlooked this plainly obvious teaching that was firmly in place thousands of years before his cult teacher received his new and improved �revelations directly from God� Makes why Moses wasn�t set straight as to these revelations �directly from God� when he was on Mount Sinai, doesn�t it?

Lastly, let�s revisit the opening remarks from Rt. Rev. Serpent Egg, Inc. who hatched this comment about Dolly Llama: � To try to equate Dake's view of God with Mormonism is dishonest, unscholarly, uninformed, ignorant, wicked, and downright foolish and reveals that those who do so really have no clue as to what they are talking about or what Dake actually taught.�

Maybe the Vain Jangler has a reason why he elects to trash both a well documented and reasoned article (AND it�s author) that with factual evidence damages his credibility because they use direct quotes from the Fowler AND his sources.

Why, for instance, would such a man selectively edit from this damaging expose certain isolated metaphorical expressions about the Mormons and relating their doctrinal and cult methodology, in that article from their whole context and make them into literal language? It is all about the dishonest cult tactics used by those who have had their theology and venerated idol exposed for the rank heretic they are.

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