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PASTOR
GENERAL'S
REPORT, DECEMBER
30 ,
1986
PAGE
11
We
w i l l
g i ve you t h e s e
updates
i n t h e "Pastor General ' s
Report"
as t hey
are a v a i l a b l e .
Please
review
them.
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The
pag i na t i on of
t h e
new e d i t i o n beg i ns
t h e
body of
t h e
t e x t
w i t h
page 1
r a t h e r than wi th page
7
as i n
t h e
1984 and ear l ier e d i t i on s .
T h i s
is
a
s t y l i s t i c ma t t e r i n conformi ty
w i t h
t h e recommendations of Pub l i sh i ng .
The
fol lowing
ed i t s
have been
made
i n t h e
t e x t
(wi th t h e pag i na t i on noted
according t o t h e 1984 e d i t i o n ) : Under t h e subhead "Be l i eve r s
Seek
t o
R i l l
Jesus,"
a
d e l e t i o n beg i ns wi th t h e t h i r d sen t ence (page
8)
and con t i nue s
were
t hey r e a l l y Ch r i s t i a n s ? To t h e s e
same
people , who ' be l i eved on
"What
do you mean--"The Unpardonable Sin'?
through f i v e sen t ences .
The
new wording now smoothly
reads:
"
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B u t
H i m , '
Jesus
said....
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On page
1 0
of
t h e
1984 e d i t i o n ,
t h e
f i f t h
paragraph,
t h e
second sen t ence
is
ed i t ed
t o read:
"It
s ays
t h e
Holy
Sp i r i t
of
G o d
mus t
be
' dwel l ing i n
you
'
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On page
11,
under
subhead
"Must
Bear
' F r u i t , ' " t h e
l a s t
sen t ence
of
t h e
f i r s t
paragraph
reads:
'Bu t God
t h e
Father
and
t h e
l i v i n g
C h r i s t
are
al ive , . . .
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On
same
page,
l a s t
l i n e has t h e
clause
"which produces
t h e
f r u i t
of
r ighteousness"
added
f o r
greater
c l a r i t y
j u s t
b e f o r e a...(God's
Holy
Spirit--God
's
l ove )
.
.
.
.
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On
page
19, under t h e
subhead, t h e
second
paragraph
has
been e n t i r e l y
deleted.
The i n t e n t of
t h e
G r e e k
is
no t t o s ay
t h a t
Pa u l
wrote
i n an
obtuse manner,
b u t
t h a t t h e
subjects
he
t a l ked
about were
o f t e n
d i f f i c u l t
t o p i c s t o understand. Some misunderstood
t h e
i n t e n t
of
t h i s
paragraph.
On page
22
j u s t
above midpage t h e exp r e s s i on
"[are
p e r i s h i ng ] "
has
been
added
t o
t h e
Bible
quo t e
t o
complete t h e
parallelism
"[being savedl ."
The
paragraph now ends wi th
t h i s
added
sentence:
"Tha t
is
e x a c t l y
t h e
meaning
of
t h e o r i g i n a l
Greek--'are
being saved ' and
'are
pe r i sh i ng . ' "
A
d e f i n i t i o n on
page
30
has been
c l a r i f i ed
i n
t h e
f i r s t
paragraph.
The
wording now
is
I..
. t he
Gr e e k
p r e s e n t t e n s e which deno t es a cont inuous
or
habi tual
s t a t e
or
a c t i o n i n t h e p r e s e n t
time."
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"Has
Time
Been
Lost?.
T h i s
is
t h e
on l y
booklet
w e
pub l i s h
f o r which w e
do
no t hold
a
copyr i gh t .
It
was
wr i t t e n by
Herbert
W.
Armstrong
for
"The Bible
Advocate" i n
t h e
Depression y e a r s ,
and
"The
B i b l e
Advocate" i n which
it f i r s t
appeared was
never copyr ighted.
It
was
l e g a l l y agreed y e a r s ago t h a t bo t h
t h e
Church
of
God
(Seventh Day)
and
t h e Worldwide Church
of
God
may f r e e l y p r i n t
t h i s endur ing
booklet.
On
page
8 , t h e f i f t h paragraph,
t h e
f i r s t s en t ence now
reads: "Jerusalem
is
t o
be
God's
headqua r t e r s f o r
t h e
earth."
And
t h e
l a s t ,
long sen t ence
of
t h i s
same
paragraph now ends
as
fol lows:
a . . * i n
t h e
middle
of
t h e
Pacific
where
it
affects
f e w
people
and
is
n e a r l y opposi te from
t h e
land
mass
i n which Jerusalem
is
located.