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    My Life Journey through the Lens of Many Paranomal Experiences

    (11) SUPERNATURAL GUIDANCE At age 11 I went out Trick or Treating for the last time. I arrived at one house where the living room was full of lit candles. The woman came to the door and told me she was Bill's Mom. I knew Bill only as a fellow 6th grader, but when I left that door, I strangely...
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    ADCs (After-Death Communication) and NDEs (Near-Death Experiences) as Evidence for an Afterlife

    (3) ARTIFACTS LEFT AS EVIDENCE BY THE DECEASED In the shared ADE in (2b), Nellie gave her family an etheric flower, a calendula, which they kept and preserved. So now I will share other accounts of such materializations. (3a) Dr. Lermer shared this experience with us. He was at a female...
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    My Life Journey through the Lens of Many Paranomal Experiences

    (10) MY FAVORITE COMMENT FROM MY MOTHER No church in Winnipeg would host Rev. Hart. That forced him to hold his meetings in Lighthouse Mission, a place of worship that homeless men and alcoholics had to attend to get a free meal across the street. At age 16 I preached my first sermon there. I...
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    My Life Journey through the Lens of Many Paranomal Experiences

    (9) My next experience of "the word of knowledge" happened when I was a Theology professor at a Catholic university in New York state. I had just finished my 4-course teaching load and was exhausted. So I began to think about a much needed vacation. But that Friday night I became obsessed with...
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    ADCs (After-Death Communication) and NDEs (Near-Death Experiences) as Evidence for an Afterlife

    (2d) A UNIQUE SHARED NDE: Albert Baldeo was a friend of my Uncle Larry. Perhaps he was also the most universally respected pastor in Kelowna, BC, Canada--so well respected that he was given a weekly column in the local newspaper. In one column he shared this shared NDE, an NDE which I confirmed...
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    Let's TALK about Paul...

    I was a theology professor at a Catholic university for 12 years and i can assure you that Catholic scholors view Paul as equaly important as Peter, though Peter, through apostolic succession, is foundational. There are at least 3 probl;ems with the claijm that Peter is the first Pope: (1) in...
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    Let's TALK about Paul...

    Paul is simply justifying his status as a true apostle who is the equal of Jesus' disciples, Peter and John, because he too has experienced a life-changing appearance of the risen Lord in which Jesus authorizes him to convert the Gentiles. And Paul can point to the support of the Jerusalem...
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    Let's TALK about Paul...

    Paul beautifully continues the spirit of Jesus by teaching that if you must be competitive, bv competitive by outdoing pagan biblical illiterates on this site by showing respect, without which pretense of love are phony: 9Let love be authentic;... outdo one another in showing respect. ..Bless...
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    My Life Journey through the Lens of Many Paranomal Experiences

    (8) This next encounter with "the word of knowledge" is probably my 2nd most treasured spiritual highlight in my life. I had applied to Harvard's doctoral program in New Testament, Judaism, and Greco-Roman backgrounds, but my a fellow seminarian told me I'd be rejected just like he was. So where...
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    ADCs (After-Death Communication) and NDEs (Near-Death Experiences) as Evidence for an Afterlife

    FOOTNOTE ON THE ADC IN THE LAST POST: The book quoted in the prior post was mailed to me by an agnostic friend, Roger, who works for a large Federal government agency. Roger in turn received the book from a co-worker who is a relative of Rev. Howell Vincent. Though he remains an agnostic...
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    Let's TALK about Paul...

    To clarify, one of my Harvard New Testament professors was present at the original discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He was later put in charge of editing them and their fragments, including many copies of Hebrew biblical texts. In that respect, he was part of an archaeological team. But the...
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    Let's TALK about Paul...

    Of oourse. I'm just saying achaeology is irrelevant to the question of the original Greek manuscripts; that subject is reserved for Text Critics.
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    ADCs (After-Death Communication) and NDEs (Near-Death Experiences) as Evidence for an Afterlife

    Roger B. recently retired from his top executive position is the federal HUD department. He is an agnostic, but developed an openness to the claims of Christ through the NDEs and ADCs that I am describing in this thread. He even invited me to his vacation home in Fort Erie, Ontario. A fellow...
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    My Life Journey through the Lens of Many Paranomal Experiences

    (7) As described in my last post, a few decades ago my car broke down in the evening during rush hour on a New Jersey freeway and was totaled after I dodged speeding traffic to get off the freeway. I called my friend Peter from Princeton Seminary, where I was a student at the time, and it was...
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    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Q: Why would Matthew, an eyewitness copy 90% of Mark, who is not an euewitness? A. Mark records Peter's catechetical notes and thus represents Peter's memours. Matthew wrote a sayings collection in Hebrew/ Aramaic, the source of sayings scholars label Q. The editor of Matthew used the apostle...
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    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Papias (60-130 AD) lived in the age of Jesus' disciples and had access to their eyewitnesses testimony, especially John the Elder and Aristion, who were probably 2 of the 70 disciples Jesus commissioned in Luke 10:1: "If by chance anyone who had been in attendance on the elders (=Jesus'...
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    My Life Journey through the Lens of Many Paranomal Experiences

    (6) My next experience of the "word of knowledge" was unequivocally helpful. As part of Princeton's field education, I worked as a chaplain assistant at the Newark College of Engineering. The night prior to my drive to Newark, I had a nightmare, a premonitory dream in which I knew my life would...
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    ADCs (After-Death Communication) and NDEs (Near-Death Experiences) as Evidence for an Afterlife

    (1) NDE researchers like Dr. Raymond Moody are now writing books about shared NDEs, which are generally far more evidential than most conventional NDEs because the doctors, nurses, and family members witnessing the apparent deaths actually experience key elements of the NDEs, including the OBE...
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    ADCs (After-Death Communication) and NDEs (Near-Death Experiences) as Evidence for an Afterlife

    The paranormal evidence doesn't get any better than this for the 2 men who had these ADC experiences. (1a) You'll recall famed movie and TV actor Telly Savalas from the 1060s and 1970s (e. g. as the tough dec\yective in "{Kojac"). Here is his mind-boggling ADC experience...
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    Let's TALK about Paul...

    Duh, I studied under experts in biblical archaeology in my Harvard doctoral program. They would all agree with my statement. In any case, archaeology is irrelevant to the study of Text Criticism, the grouping of ancient biblical manuscripts into families by date, text type, and region, to...
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