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Re: Tommy Shelton
« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2009, 08:57:12 PM »

Prayer for this man of the cloth turned predator is simply inadequate. I see a man in denial of the truth of his life and the cost he has reigned down upon his many victims. I see a man whose very soul is at stake as he remains in denial, unconfessed of his many sins and unrepentant of the reign of terror and the far reaching results his actions have cost so many lives, even as close as his very own family.

I see a man that we are compelled to pointedly call upon to confess his sins to his many victims and to the congregations that he has left divided and bewildered by the many issues unresolved and unconfessed and defiantly unrepentant!!!! One is compelled to call for repentance, confession and honest effort to make whole the many victims of his prolifically and perniciously predatory life.

What a blessing it would be to have this man of the cloth take up his duty and to confess all, to repent and to take upon himself the sackcloth and ashes to demontrate his repentance. What a rejoicing would and could be had throughout the various congregations and throughout the Shelton family as we had demonstrable proof of his repentant spirit and the reformed life that would result. What a rejoicing there would be in the Hallowed Halls of the Holy City to know that this man has been brought back to the right hand of the Father. Only God knows how many others would be convicted to follow a similar course and deny the life of sin he has embraced for so many years.

Therein lies our real duty, to call for true confession, true repentance and true reformation...else we be found accountable for the unreformed life's very soul. The failure to make this call to repentance must be read as believing that we can be "saved in our sins", an absolute heresy in Adventism.

And to those dogmatic cultists concerned with "judgementalism" I simply reply that "BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM"
and the fruits here have been spoiled for many decades. The many interviews with victims are heartrending and convincing in both detail and impact and simply defy denial.

I, therefore, call for the recovery of Mr Shelton's conscience and for him to confess and repent that we may all rejoice in the resurrection of the damaged souls. And I call for responsible christians to make the same call.

The alternative is eternal loss, and victims lives bitter with the consequences of sin.

The Lord's Will be done!!!

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Re: Tommy Shelton
« Reply #16 on: April 18, 2009, 12:02:23 PM »

Prayer for this man of the cloth turned predator is simply inadequate.

Inadequate?  I don't understand, and don't think I really want to. My Lord is all powerful and is the great physician. He had compassion and went about healing all and came to heal even the lame, the blind and the deaf, and causes them to walk, and see and hear, he even gives life to the dead...

My bible says:

"The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." and "I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. "

I believe it is a privilege to pray for others and impossible to not love those you lift up in prayer.

I will continue to pray for Tommy and his entire family, and all those around him, and I will continue to pray for you and yours also...

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« Reply #17 on: April 18, 2009, 01:59:13 PM »

You need to read scripture a little more. A righteous man is righteous in all things. IF not, what good are the prayers. You may be  defender of evil until proven innocent of viewed facts. I understand fully when people do not have visibility of truth as I have read in scripture that the Lord lets you believe a lie if not a seeker of truth.  Minds are seared to truth. You are defending what innocent people can see and speaking out on. If there was no evil in the pile this would not have been going on. This is Something like the tea parties going on to fight again for freedom of the biggest money scam.  Do you think for one moment that voters that put in this evil party of socialism to spread the wealth will take back on their vote?? Absolutely not as there is one mind set.  By the way it seems the pirates of Somalia share the same view. If you have followed that amazement. They are going to retaliate now because they did not get their money.(whose money)?? These patterns never ceased to exist including here
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Re: Tommy Shelton
« Reply #18 on: April 18, 2009, 06:00:14 PM »

3ABN_Defender, Reading your post was like a ray of light that comes down through the dark dense forest, reaching to the very ground, and so very welcome. Thank you.

Prayer for this man of the cloth turned predator is simply inadequate.

Inadequate?  I don't understand, and don't think I really want to. My Lord is all powerful and is the great physician. He had compassion and went about healing all and came to heal even the lame, the blind and the deaf, and causes them to walk, and see and hear, he even gives life to the dead...

My bible says:

"The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." and "I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. "

I believe it is a privilege to pray for others and impossible to not love those you lift up in prayer.

I will continue to pray for Tommy and his entire family, and all those around him, and I will continue to pray for you and yours also...


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« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2009, 06:20:36 PM »

Prayer for this man of the cloth turned predator is simply inadequate.

Inadequate?  I don't understand, and don't think I really want to. My Lord is all powerful and is the great physician. He had compassion and went about healing all and came to heal even the lame, the blind and the deaf, and causes them to walk, and see and hear, he even gives life to the dead...


And doesn't that sum up the problem in Adventism and at 3ABN???? I don't understand and I don't really want to!!! Says it all in the best summary yet....

Now, for the truth of the matter...I categorically DENY that Christ went about healing all...he healed those who had Faith, a fruit of the Spirit. He did not heal the rich young lawyer that denied his message of healing and eternal life. AND HE WILL NOT HEAL THE IMPENITENT, regardless of how fervently you pray for him. And it is biblically correct that we must call for repentance when open sin is the fruit of the soul....BUT YOU DON"T UNDERSTAND AND DO NOT WANT TO!!!! Therefore, you stand responsible for the impenitent souls that you ignore. And that my dear, is why you are not a Seventh-day Adventist.

Seventh-day Adventist believe in the Bible, the whole Bible, its "lesser light" and nothing more. There are no cultic icons and no corporate righteousness and prophets have the fruits of the spirit, including being the husband of ONE WIFE. And they definitely do not Blaspheme God and HIS WORD by their lives.

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« Reply #20 on: April 18, 2009, 07:35:30 PM »

3ABN_Defender, Reading your post was like a ray of light that comes down through the dark dense forest, reaching to the very ground, and so very welcome. Thank you.

Reminds me of the words of my Bible teacher many years ago.  He had been a missionary more than a quarter century, preaching the gospel to the heathen. There was a woman who claimed she received such a blessing whenever she heard the name "Mesopotamia". It revived her soul.

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Re: Tommy Shelton
« Reply #21 on: April 18, 2009, 09:22:13 PM »

Prayer for this man of the cloth turned predator is simply inadequate.

Inadequate?  I don't understand, and don't think I really want to. My Lord is all powerful and is the great physician. He had compassion and went about healing all and came to heal even the lame, the blind and the deaf, and causes them to walk, and see and hear, he even gives life to the dead...


And doesn't that sum up the problem in Adventism and at 3ABN???? I don't understand and I don't really want to!!! Says it all in the best summary yet....

Now, for the truth of the matter...I categorically DENY that Christ went about healing all...he healed those who had Faith, a fruit of the Spirit. He did not heal the rich young lawyer that denied his message of healing and eternal life. AND HE WILL NOT HEAL THE IMPENITENT, regardless of how fervently you pray for him. And it is biblically correct that we must call for repentance when open sin is the fruit of the soul....BUT YOU DON"T UNDERSTAND AND DO NOT WANT TO!!!! Therefore, you stand responsible for the impenitent souls that you ignore. And that my dear, is why you are not a Seventh-day Adventist.

Seventh-day Adventist believe in the Bible, the whole Bible, its "lesser light" and nothing more. There are no cultic icons and no corporate righteousness and prophets have the fruits of the spirit, including being the husband of ONE WIFE. And they definitely do not Blaspheme God and HIS WORD by their lives.

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Ahem... Did not Jesus heal unasked? Therefore faith is apparently not  present (at least not before healing took place). Consider the man at the pool of Bethesda. Did he particularly express faith in Jesus or in the efficacy of the 'disturbed' water? Yet Jesus healed him even though he didn't ask. I suppose faith in Jesus came after the fact. Consider that Jesus will heal the sinner first and then command "Go and sin no more." He can do the same for Tommy, no?
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Re: Tommy Shelton
« Reply #22 on: April 18, 2009, 10:29:20 PM »

Prayer for this man of the cloth turned predator is simply inadequate.

Inadequate?  I don't understand, and don't think I really want to. My Lord is all powerful and is the great physician. He had compassion and went about healing all and came to heal even the lame, the blind and the deaf, and causes them to walk, and see and hear, he even gives life to the dead...


And doesn't that sum up the problem in Adventism and at 3ABN???? I don't understand and I don't really want to!!! Says it all in the best summary yet....

Now, for the truth of the matter...I categorically DENY that Christ went about healing all...he healed those who had Faith, a fruit of the Spirit. He did not heal the rich young lawyer that denied his message of healing and eternal life. AND HE WILL NOT HEAL THE IMPENITENT, regardless of how fervently you pray for him. And it is biblically correct that we must call for repentance when open sin is the fruit of the soul....BUT YOU DON"T UNDERSTAND AND DO NOT WANT TO!!!! Therefore, you stand responsible for the impenitent souls that you ignore. And that my dear, is why you are not a Seventh-day Adventist.

Seventh-day Adventist believe in the Bible, the whole Bible, its "lesser light" and nothing more. There are no cultic icons and no corporate righteousness and prophets have the fruits of the spirit, including being the husband of ONE WIFE. And they definitely do not Blaspheme God and HIS WORD by their lives.

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Ahem... Did not Jesus heal unasked? Therefore faith is apparently not  present (at least not before healing took place). Consider the man at the pool of Bethesda. Did he particularly express faith in Jesus or in the efficacy of the 'disturbed' water? Yet Jesus healed him even though he didn't ask. I suppose faith in Jesus came after the fact. Consider that Jesus will heal the sinner first and then command "Go and sin no more." He can do the same for Tommy, no?

Ahem, actually, I will give Jesus more credit for his choice of the healing you are referring to than you are - I think Jesus knew this mans heart and probable outcome of this healing. He did have many reasons for his acts, not just one, and certainly not just for the person who was healed. Lots of people were often witnessing and watching what Jesus was doing, and that factored in too, don't you think?
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« Reply #23 on: April 19, 2009, 05:01:31 AM »

Prayer for this man of the cloth turned predator is simply inadequate.

Inadequate?  I don't understand, and don't think I really want to. My Lord is all powerful and is the great physician. He had compassion and went about healing all and came to heal even the lame, the blind and the deaf, and causes them to walk, and see and hear, he even gives life to the dead...




And doesn't that sum up the problem in Adventism and at 3ABN???? I don't understand and I don't really want to!!! Says it all in the best summary yet....

Now, for the truth of the matter...I categorically DENY that Christ went about healing all...he healed those who had Faith, a fruit of the Spirit. He did not heal the rich young lawyer that denied his message of healing and eternal life. AND HE WILL NOT HEAL THE IMPENITENT, regardless of how fervently you pray for him. And it is biblically correct that we must call for repentance when open sin is the fruit of the soul....BUT YOU DON"T UNDERSTAND AND DO NOT WANT TO!!!! Therefore, you stand responsible for the impenitent souls that you ignore. And that my dear, is why you are not a Seventh-day Adventist.

Seventh-day Adventist believe in the Bible, the whole Bible, its "lesser light" and nothing more. There are no cultic icons and no corporate righteousness and prophets have the fruits of the spirit, including being the husband of ONE WIFE. And they definitely do not Blaspheme God and HIS WORD by their lives.

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Ahem... Did not Jesus heal unasked? Therefore faith is apparently not  present (at least not before healing took place). Consider the man at the pool of Bethesda. Did he particularly express faith in Jesus or in the efficacy of the 'disturbed' water? Yet Jesus healed him even though he didn't ask. I suppose faith in Jesus came after the fact. Consider that Jesus will heal the sinner first and then command "Go and sin no more." He can do the same for Tommy, no?

Tommy, YES!  IF IF IF IF REPENTANT!!!!!  YOU GOT IT "GO AND SIN NO MORE!. JESUS KNOWS REPENTANCE AND HE KNOWS THE DAMAGE TO THE VICTIMS. WHERE IS THE REPENTANCE. WHERE IS SYMPATHY FOR THE VICTIMS AND HOW MANY.  PEOPLE WILL EVEN ASK WHY GOD DID NOT GIVE LUCIFER THAT LAST CHANCE TO GET BACK AND WILL STILL SYMPATHIZE THAT MAYBE ALL WOULD NOT BE LIKE THIS. I ABOUT FELL OUT OF CHAIR WITH THIS ONE.. IN A SABBATH SCHOOL..  PEOPLE SYMPATHIZE WITH SIN, BELIEVE IT OR NOT. THESE ARE CIRCUMSTANCES IF JESUS HEALED TOMMY, YOU WOULD HEAR IT FROM HIM IN PUBLIC, JUST LIKE JESUS DID BACK THEN IN PUBLIC SO THE PEOPLE WOULD KNOW. WE ALL SYMPATHIZE WITH HUMAN LIFE AND PRAY FOR OUR BROTHER AND LIFT THEM UP BUT I TAKE IT THAT BROTHER MEANS (IN CHRIST). THE ULTIMATE IS THAT TOMMY MAKES THE CHOICE WHETHER HE IS A BROTHER OR CHILD OF GOD. TOMMY MAY NOT THINK HE SINNED ANYMORE THEN GAY BELIEVE THEIR RIGHTS OF CHOICE.  I HATE HIS SIN!!! AND TEARS ARE FOR THE VICTIMS. WAS TOMMY EVER A BRETHREN OR JUST TOOK THE BEST PLACE OF HIDING SO HE COULD CARRY OUT HIS FANTASIES OF CRIME. THAT IS WHERE MOST HIDE. IN THE CHURCH. JUST ASK THE PRIESTS. YOU ARE RIGHT ON ONE THING, THE PUBLIC WOULD KNOW OF REPENTANCE AND A BLESSING WOULD BE EXPERIENCED. BUT PRIDE AND DENIAL WILL PROBABLY HINDER IT. I AM PRAYING THE VICTIMS CAN RECOVER AND THEIR WONDER WHY THAT WAS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN TO THEM.  THINK ABOUT IT, WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF IT WAS YOUR CHILD? IT IS A CAUSE FOR DEATH. USUALLY DEATH  ALREADY HAS HAPPENED IN THE MIND TO COMMIT SUCH ACTS! WOULDN'T YOU THINK??  IF NOT YOU ARE TYPICAL SYMPATHIZER.  IN LEV. JESUS THOUGHT SO-- AS WAS COMMANDED DEATH. Like Scripture says that some are already walking around dead. Serial molesters and killers could be what that is implying to or I am just plain stupid. Yes, all sin will keep you from heaven but ...some sin is worse then others and some will be heaped upon more then others unless they repent for forgiveness. Did any victims hear anything from the perp???
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« Reply #24 on: April 19, 2009, 06:45:57 AM »

And doesn't that sum up the problem in Adventism and at 3ABN???? I don't understand and I don't really want to!!! Says it all in the best summary yet....

Now, for the truth of the matter...I categorically DENY that Christ went about healing all...he healed those who had Faith, a fruit of the Spirit. He did not heal the rich young lawyer that denied his message of healing and eternal life. AND HE WILL NOT HEAL THE IMPENITENT, regardless of how fervently you pray for him. And it is biblically correct that we must call for repentance when open sin is the fruit of the soul....BUT YOU DON"T UNDERSTAND AND DO NOT WANT TO!!!! Therefore, you stand responsible for the impenitent souls that you ignore. And that my dear, is why you are not a Seventh-day Adventist.

Seventh-day Adventist believe in the Bible, the whole Bible, its "lesser light" and nothing more. There are no cultic icons and no corporate righteousness and prophets have the fruits of the spirit, including being the husband of ONE WIFE. And they definitely do not Blaspheme God and HIS WORD by their lives.

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Ahem... Did not Jesus heal unasked? Therefore faith is apparently not  present (at least not before healing took place). Consider the man at the pool of Bethesda. Did he particularly express faith in Jesus or in the efficacy of the 'disturbed' water? Yet Jesus healed him even though he didn't ask. I suppose faith in Jesus came after the fact. Consider that Jesus will heal the sinner first and then command "Go and sin no more." He can do the same for Tommy, no?

Ahem, actually, I will give Jesus more credit for his choice of the healing you are referring to than you are - I think Jesus knew this mans heart and probable outcome of this healing. He did have many reasons for his acts, not just one, and certainly not just for the person who was healed. Lots of people were often witnessing and watching what Jesus was doing, and that factored in too, don't you think?

Perhaps the problem is that the Tommy defenders haven't read or don't believe the SoP on this point:

"Jesus does not ask this sufferer to exercise faith in Him. He simply says, 'Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.' But the man's faith takes hold upon that word. Every nerve and muscle thrills with new life, and healthful action comes to his crippled limbs. Without question he sets his will to obey the command of Christ, and all his muscles respond to his will. Springing to his feet, he finds himself an active man" (DA 202-203).

That came from the chapter about the healing at the pool of Bethesda. The man was healed because he had faith in Christ's word.
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« Reply #25 on: April 19, 2009, 11:46:53 AM »

Exactly, You cannot love the truth, and believe then do the monstrous acts or protect them. As you will be held accountable of the act just as it is in a court of law. Accessary to the fact is a modern day law if your caught. With God you cannot hide it.
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« Reply #26 on: April 19, 2009, 12:48:58 PM »

Wow I seem to have riled up Tinka. But I must tell him that NO I am NOT "the typical sympathizer" nor can I speak to whether  "  WAS TOMMY EVER A BRETHREN OR JUST TOOK THE BEST PLACE OF HIDING SO HE COULD CARRY OUT HIS FANTASIES OF CRIME. THAT IS WHERE MOST HIDE. IN THE CHURCH." I do not know the answer to that.

And, No, Bob Pickle neither am a Tommy defender. All I believe is that God Jesus loves all - sinner and saint. He died for all those who are whole and those like Tommy Shelton  who need a physician literally and spiritually ( don't we all?). It has been said, and I would like to think you believe also, that God hates sin but loves the sinner. Not by a long shot was I suggesting that I am in sympathy with Tommy's sins alleged or otherwise. But I feel  empathy for the stricken Tommy Shelton and pray that God will make him fully WHOLE.  

 I was, however, responding to an assertion by  G A Joy that "Now, for the truth of the matter...I categorically DENY that Christ went about healing all...he healed those who had Faith, a fruit of the Spirit." Certainly He did not go about healing all, but there there are SOME whom He healed not because they expressed their faith or because they believed in Him (at least one did not even know whom He was.) Of the man at the Pool :

John 5: And he that was healed wist not who he was: for  Jesus has conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.
       6: Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple an d said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a         worse thing come unto thee.

Bob Pickle quotes EGW : "Jesus does not ask this sufferer to exercise faith in Him. He simply says, 'Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.' But the man's faith takes hold upon that word. Every nerve and muscle thrills with new life, and healthful action comes to his crippled limbs. Without question he sets his will to obey the command of Christ, and all his muscles respond to his will. Springing to his feet, he finds himself an active man" (DA 202-203).

John 5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed and walk.
         :9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the        sabbath

I suggest that at the instant of Jesus' command, quite independent of, and totally without "the man's faith takes hold upon that word" the man was made whole. In that instant it took for the man to be healed there was no time for any mental reaction on his part. He, Christ, spoke and, irresistibly, it was done. There is nothing in the text as far as I am concerned to suggest otherwise.  Faith came later, perhaps. That's my story and I am sticking to it!

I do not limit God's power to heal Tommy Shelton if that is His will. God's healing grace is his to implore. His forgiving mercy is also his to appropriate.  As a Pastor, Tommy knows what he must do  to be heard by God.              
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« Reply #27 on: April 19, 2009, 04:11:32 PM »

Bob Pickle quotes EGW : "Jesus does not ask this sufferer to exercise faith in Him. He simply says, 'Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.' But the man's faith takes hold upon that word. Every nerve and muscle thrills with new life, and healthful action comes to his crippled limbs. Without question he sets his will to obey the command of Christ, and all his muscles respond to his will. Springing to his feet, he finds himself an active man" (DA 202-203).
 
EGW quotes this because the man was already beckoned by the Holy Spirit to the water. The man already had a simple faith of this much to get to the water. "Jesus does not ask this sufferer to exercise faith because he showed it by getting to the water. This is not hard to understand and it is exactly the same thing that applied to the thief on the cross. Bob is not wrong to quote this and it needs to be read again in right context. The man did not go there just on a whim of unbelief. Jesus knew when the woman touched his garment. She had some measure of faith or belief. One thief on the cross opened his mind to some measure of faith beckoned by the Holy Spirit. It was accepted in these cases. The other thief did not chose.  I do not understand the backward action and quoting wrong about getting saved and healed with no faith. Absolutely wrong doctrine. Now, I believe that Jesus can do what you suggest but then it takes away choice and then if He did that without any calling to the Spirit then he must do it for everyone and there should be no hell. 

EGW does quote that some that are not healed is because they will only go back to do the same thing again. She was quite the  common sense writer, inspired by the Holy Spirit and if read in it's entirety watching every word in context there will be no mistake and concocted scenarios, or fanaticism that I see people use to apply for their own benefits. I am not a he but just some old lady looking, and watching for all truth as promised with an open heart. But I use standards given by the Word.  Yes, Tommy knows what he is to do but his corrupt desires so far has shown denial. Shall we all get through the Pearly Gates in this condition? You may believe this but I don't. Yes Jesus is broken hearted and yes he loves the sinner, but HE DOES NOT FORCE! Tommy still has choice. He is lucky as far as I am concerned as he took choice away from young victims for a life of ---------what. God yearns for the repentance but will he get it? I am constantly worried what I do to Him and Hate the evil that hurts Him and others.
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« Reply #28 on: April 19, 2009, 05:33:40 PM »


Ahem... Did not Jesus heal unasked? Therefore faith is apparently not  present (at least not before healing took place). Consider the man at the pool of Bethesda. Did he particularly express faith in Jesus or in the efficacy of the 'disturbed' water? Yet Jesus healed him even though he didn't ask. I suppose faith in Jesus came after the fact. Consider that Jesus will heal the sinner first and then command "Go and sin no more." He can do the same for Tommy, no?

NO!!! Go back and read the Desire Of Ages on this and then come back with your renewed perspective...and was the Faith in the Ripple of Water or the Spirit the purportedly moved it??? In any event, read the account, particularly the response to the call to "...Take Up thy Bed and walk..." You will clearly be enlightened. You may even be converted....to ADVENTISM, not Sheltonism.

Wanna try again???

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« Reply #29 on: April 19, 2009, 05:59:20 PM »

It doesn't appear that Fairhavens is involved in "sheltonism." I think that is a misunderstanding.
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