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VOLUME 11, ISSUE 19 WAY OF LIFE LITERATURE MAY 7, 2010PREACHER ARRESTED IN ENGLAND FOR SAYING HOMOSEXUALITY IS A SINThe following is from “Christian Preacher on Hooligan Charge,” Daily Mail, May 1, 2010: “A Christian street preacher hasbeen arrested and charged with a public-order offence after saying that homosexuality was sinful. Dale Mcalpine washanding out leaflets to shoppers when he told a passer-by and a gay police community support officer that, as a Christian, hebelieved homosexuality was one of a number of sins that go against the word ofGod. Mr. Mcalpine said that he did not repeat his remarks on homosexuality whenhe preached from the top of a stepladder after his leafleting. But he has been toldthat police officers are alleging they heard him making his remarks to a member ofthe public in a loud voice that could be overheard by others. Mr. Mcalpine, 42, whoearns about £40,000 a year in the energy industry, was arrested and taken to the localpolice station in the back of a police van after preaching in the Cumbrian town ofWorkington on April 20. After seven hours locked up in a cell, he was charged withusing abusive or insulting words or behaviour contrary to the Public Order Act 1986.Mr. Mcalpine--who has delivered open-air sermons and handed out leaflets inWorkington for years, and has never been in trouble with the police--said theincident was one of the worst moments of his life. ‘I felt deeply shocked andhumiliated that I had been arrested in my own town and treated like a commoncriminal in front of people I know,’ he said. ‘My freedom was taken away on thehearsay of someone who disliked what I said, and I was charged under a law thatdoesn’t apply.’ ... Mr Adams [the officer who had Mcalpine arrested] has been amember of Cumbria police’s LGBT staff association and last year represented theforce at the Gay Pride festival in Manchester ... On the social networking siteMySpace, he describes his orientation as gay and his religion as atheist. ... Shoppersin Workington were bemused by what had happened to Mr. Mcalpine. Rob Logan, the assistant manager of the O2 mobilephone store near where Mr Mcalpine preached, said he had no complaints. ‘He hands out leaflets, he says his piece and thenhe leaves,’ said Mr. Logan. ‘He is not aggressive or threatening. He is gentle.’ The Rev. Arthur Bentley-Taylor, 68, vicar ofthe Emmanuel evangelical church where Mr. Mcalpine worships, said: ‘As far as I am concerned, this is about free speech. Ifwe arrested everybody who said something we found offensive, everyone would be in prison.’ The Public Order Act 1986has been used by the police in a number of similar cases.”NOAH’S ARK FIND PROBABLY A HOAXThe following is from “Latest Noah’s Ark ‘Just Wood Planted on Ararat,” WorldNetDaily, April 28, 2010: “Has the realNoah's Ark spoken of in the Bible truly been found? At least two seasoned archaeologists who have made numerousexpeditions to Mount Ararat in search of Noah’s Ark are throwing coldwater on this week’s claim the Old Testament vessel has finally beendiscovered, saying it’s a hoax involving wood hauled in from the BlackSea region. ‘To make a long story short: this is all reported to be a fake,’said Randall Price, director of Judaic Studies at Liberty University inLynchburg, Va. [Price thinks the wood was brought to the site from nearthe Black Sea.] ‘This is not Noah’s Ark,’ adds Bob Cornuke of the BibleArchaeology Search and Exploration Institute. ‘This is a fake. It’s a fraudand it’s of the highest caliber according to what I can assess from theevidence and talking to eyewitnesses and people from Turkey.’ WNDreported yesterday that Chinese and Turkish explorers with Noah’s ArkMinistries International said they were ‘99.9 percent sure’ they found theremnants of the legendary biblical vessel high up on Mount Ararat ineastern Turkey. The 15-member team claims it recovered woodenspecimens from a structure at an altitude of 13,000 feet and that carbon dating suggested it was 4,800 years old. ... Anotherark-hunter, Richard Rives of Tennessee-based Wyatt Archaeological Research ... noted that the wood reportedly discoveredappeared in excellent condition. ‘The wood’s in too good a shape to be that old,’ he said. Regarding some of the photospublished online, Cornuke told American Family Radio, ‘There are cobwebs up in the beams. You’re not going to havewood at 14,000 feet in a glacier to have cobwebs in it. It’s impossible to have that situation.’”! PAGE 2
VOLUME 11, ISSUE 19 WAY OF LIFE LITERATURE MAY 7, 2010MORMON GLENN BECK ADDRESSES LIBERTY UNIVERSITY GRADUATIONConservative talk show personality Glenn Beck will be oneof two commencement speakers at Liberty University onMay 15. The school, founded by Jerry Falwell and led todayby his son, praised Beck as “one of the few courageousvoices in the national media standing up for the principlesupon which this nation was founded.” The other speaker wasPaige Patterson, president of the Southern BaptistConvention’s seminary in Texas. Beck is politicallyconservative, but he is a Mormon and thus worships a falsechrist. God forbids His people to yoke together withunbelievers (2 Corinthians 6:14-18) and associate withheretics (Romans 16:17; 2 John 8-11), but Liberty stoppedcaring about separation decades ago when Falwell formedthe misguided Moral Majority and then moved fromindependent Baptist to the more “broadminded” SouthernBaptist fold. The root problem in America is not politics,and America will not be saved by conservative talk showpersonalities. The root problem is the compromise andapostasy in the churches, and the source of that is theignorance, heresy, and cowardice in the pulpits. In light ofthat, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, et al, are more a partof the problem than the solution. America does not fear Godbecause the fear of God is not being preached in itschurches. In spite of the massive amount of conservativepolitical activity of the last 40 years, including that done byconservative Baptists, American slide into moral filth hasbeen unabated. If all of that political activity and fussing andfretting had been channeled into repentance and prayer, thenation would probably have been saved. (See also “JerryFalwell: The Billy Graham of Independent Baptists” at theWay of Life web site.)SAMARITANS STILL FOLLOW A MIXED RELIGIONThe Samaritan religion is a corrupt mixture of paganism andJudaism which began with the transportation of pagans intothe region by the king of Assyria (2 Kings 17:24-41).Amazingly it is still alive today. The Samaritans observe thesabbath and have an annual sacrifice called Pessah which ispartly based on the Passover, but their holy mountain is Mt.Girizim (today called Grizim) instead of Mt. Moriah.Girizim was the mountain that the Woman at the Wellalluded to in her conversation with Jesus (John 4:20). AtPessah each family sacrifices and eats a sheep withoutbreaking a bone and they eat it hurriedly with a staff in handas if leaving Egypt, like the Passover. But the accompanyingbread, called maza, is not unleavened; it is soft and roundlike pita. And there are other differences. This year theSamaritan festival was observed on April 28 and 7,000attended, most of whom were non-participating observers.The Jews pride themselves in being People of the Book andlook down on the Samaritans, but in reality neither arepeople of the book today. In fact, in one way the Samaritanfeast is more like the biblical Passover than what the Jewsobserve today, because at least they shed the blood of alamb which the Bible requires, though they don’t have theslightest idea what the lamb signifies. The typical JewishPassover today focuses not on the lamb but on theunleavened bread, called matzo. The focus of the Passoverfor religious Jews is the Seder, which is a ritualistic mealthat has little to do with the true Passover. It is preceded bythe painstaking removal of all leaven (chametz), but thedefinition of leaven has been greatly enlarged by vainJewish tradition. For Orthodox Jews it consists of anythingmade from grain that has not been completely cooked within18 minutes after coming into contact with water, plus allrice, corn, peanuts, and beans. In fact, such things cannoteven be fed to one’s pets or cattle and must be eitherdestroyed or sold to non-Jews. The main things that areeaten at the Jewish Seder are unleavened bread and bitterherbs, but also eaten are such things as fish, roast chicken orturkey, and beef brisket. But no lamb! The rest consists ofwashing hands, drinking wine (four cups), various blessings,and reading of Scripture and Jewish tradition. The Scripturesays that “it is the blood that maketh an atonement for thesoul” (Lev. 17:11). John the Baptist testified that thePassover Lamb pictures Jesus the Messiah (John 1:29). But“blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness ofthe Gentiles be come in” (Romans 11:25).! PAGE 3
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