10/28/10 Dewitt: It was nice to meet you & discuss theology with you today. I'm glad to know you're my Christian brother. I haven't found a lot of genuine Christians in Omaha. Seems like there was a Dewitt Clinton in American history, but don’t remember what he did. Was that you working at the bakery department when I went there to ask for Allen? I met Allen working in the produce section several months ago. He's a Christian. I wanted to buy an onion today. At the produce department, I asked a produce man about Allen. He thought Allen was working in the bakery department, but wrong, I guess. Then I stuck my head in the door where produce guys come out of and called "Allen," and a guy there said he was working in the frozen foods. Didn't go back there 'cause I was hoping to catch the bus back without too long a wait. It’s 2 Chron 22:2, where king Ahaziah was 42 yrs old when he began to reign in Jerusalem. But in 2 Kings 8:26 it says he was 22 yrs old when he began to reign. Both statements could not be correct. So evidently, a scribe made an error. But there was also another King Ahaziah. Perhaps that other Ahaziah was a king of Israel rather than of Judah before the splitting of Israel after King Solomon. Because of traveling I have done, I don't have the best reference materials right now. But there’s that scripture that says even a fool will not err regarding God’s plan of salvation, (assuming the man will make some sincere effort to find out the truth). See Isaiah 35:8 The guy on the bus with the long beard thought that the King James Bible was corrupt. But what would you use instead? Certainly not the counterfeit Jehovah’s Witness bible. There are other versions of the Bible, but I haven’t seen one that seems better than KJV. He said he doesn’t celebrate Christmas. There is no Santa Claus, of course. It’s wrong to teach children that there’s a Santa Claus. But Jesus was born sometime, and I don’t see how celebrating his birth at Christmas is wrong. He says he looks things up in the Greek and Hebrew. That’s probably not too bad an idea, for someone who is skilled in those languages. I’m not fluent in either of those languages, but I know you can look things up in the Strong’s Unabridged Concordance, which has a Greek and Hebrew lexicon. When you find a word in the Strong's Unabridged it has about a 4 digit number. Then you take that number, and look up the word in the Hebrew lexicon (dictionary) at the back of the Strong's if it's an Old Testament word, or in the Greek lexicon it's a New Testament word. The latest Strong's Unabridged edition that I'm aware of is called "The Strongest Strong's." But doing so doesn’t necessarily make one a great theologian, and when it comes to theology, that man is stumbling in the darkness. I think you called him crazy. That may be correct. He may be insane, and it’s quite easy to become insane these days. People who are insane, or have some form of insanity are people who have demons in them. Homosexuality is a form of insanity caused by demons that get into people. Rev. Lester Sumrall said the demon of homosexuality gets in through lust. I think he meant heterosexual lust leads to temptataion to become a homosexual. Gays don't go to heaven, of course, as it says in I Cor 6:9 (the effeminate). I don’t know who he had for a teacher, the man on the bus, but I think he had the wrong teacher, or some wrong teachers. Jesus said the Holy Spirit would lead us into all truth. How is it that that man has not been led into truth, but into lies? I recon he's been listening to some wrong voices. Jesus plainly taught there’s a heaven and a hell, and that most people go to hell. The idea that when you die, you just cease to exist is clearly incorrect theology, and the man is not a good student of Jesus, nor of the Bible. If the man doesn't find out before, he'll find out when he dies that it was only his body that died. It would be a pity if he had to go to hell to find out there's a hell, since people who go there don't get back out. Fred Hoehn Fhoehn99@hotmail.com