Post by responce on Apr 6, 2006 16:48:00 GMT -5
This was the worker response to the secret sect book
The workers responded with…
"Pollock said he doesn't understand why the question of the group's history should be traumatic for ex-members. 'I don't know how they could have come up with that,' said Pollock, who denied that the fellowship makes unsubstantiated claims about its origins. 'We know that it began with a group of men in the British Isles around the turn of the century. That's as far as we've been able to trace it.' "
"Sylvester, responding to Parker's charges, says deciding which version is the truth is unimportant. 'Jesus himself set us up,' he said. 'Whether it was planted in the first century, the 10th century or the 20th century, the message is the same, it produces the same thing. They say we're a secret thing. But anyone that has the Bible has the way. People spread wrong reports about us. They spread wrong reports about Jesus. Prejudiced and bitter people will tell you things that are not true'." (August 20 1983 Bellingham Herald)
"'We, don't deny that,' said Therald Sylvester, Washington overseer, when asked if the historical account was true. He refused, however, to discuss why ex-members had a different impression. 'I won't go into that detail,' he said." (August 20 1983 Bellingham Herald)
"(The origin) '…makes no difference because the Spirit of God can do anything,' said Harold Silvernail, member of the church and owner of the Milltown land where the church is meeting this week." (August 17, 1983 Skagit Valley Herald)
"Richard Wulf, 27, a Two-by-Two worker in Mexico for two years, was asked about this apparent suppression of the sect's origins. 'Near the turn of the century God raised up godly men in Ireland and Scotland,' Wulf acknowledged. 'We respect them and what they established. But we don't hold to that history and line of succession.' Added (David) Kennedy: 'Now we're not following these men but the New Testament. What we have today is the New Testament fellowship.'" (Sept. 13, 1983 Los Angeles Times
The workers responded with…
"Pollock said he doesn't understand why the question of the group's history should be traumatic for ex-members. 'I don't know how they could have come up with that,' said Pollock, who denied that the fellowship makes unsubstantiated claims about its origins. 'We know that it began with a group of men in the British Isles around the turn of the century. That's as far as we've been able to trace it.' "
"Sylvester, responding to Parker's charges, says deciding which version is the truth is unimportant. 'Jesus himself set us up,' he said. 'Whether it was planted in the first century, the 10th century or the 20th century, the message is the same, it produces the same thing. They say we're a secret thing. But anyone that has the Bible has the way. People spread wrong reports about us. They spread wrong reports about Jesus. Prejudiced and bitter people will tell you things that are not true'." (August 20 1983 Bellingham Herald)
"'We, don't deny that,' said Therald Sylvester, Washington overseer, when asked if the historical account was true. He refused, however, to discuss why ex-members had a different impression. 'I won't go into that detail,' he said." (August 20 1983 Bellingham Herald)
"(The origin) '…makes no difference because the Spirit of God can do anything,' said Harold Silvernail, member of the church and owner of the Milltown land where the church is meeting this week." (August 17, 1983 Skagit Valley Herald)
"Richard Wulf, 27, a Two-by-Two worker in Mexico for two years, was asked about this apparent suppression of the sect's origins. 'Near the turn of the century God raised up godly men in Ireland and Scotland,' Wulf acknowledged. 'We respect them and what they established. But we don't hold to that history and line of succession.' Added (David) Kennedy: 'Now we're not following these men but the New Testament. What we have today is the New Testament fellowship.'" (Sept. 13, 1983 Los Angeles Times