Dear Pilgrim,

Words really do not adequately express my deep gratefulness for the way you replied to my anxious cry. Infact the details of your reply to point (1) answered my first question on this forum and (2) in regard to the work I am currently doing (a 4-5 year reseach project). (4) Was particulary valuable - I am indebted friend. (5) Clearly the passages that so many struggle with in Hebrews take a little more effort than I think the AOG head honcho's are willing to explore, just incase they find themselves making a 180% change (did I infer repentance).

The free will message of this position paper pp 4178 really creeped me out. My memories of the many sermons that were filled with the glaring errors that I in my innocence received with an open heart, ache me some. I am glad to finally be set free of this, but I ache some because to the grave error that has been perpetrated against many young people like myself who came out of the hippies and had this message of bondage pounded into our skulls. Two sisters committed suicide from guilt associated by not meeting up to the exacting standards of this organization that I can see clearly now does not have much mercy to release to it's devotees. Oh how I ache.

Seeing as you are probably aware that I flatly reject there point (3) no more is left to be said than that I spent my first years as a believer in Christ in the belly of a whale. Well, I guess I should not think that strange, for we are to enter into the grace by which we stand through many difficulties. I am sure I would not be the sort of man I am to day had my life been a bed of thornless roses.

In His grace,