Hi Truthseek, I am back from my vacation and I am surprised that no one has replied to your message. Thank you for your kind words on my behalf. My children grew up in prep school also. I was never really aware of what they were being taught, but assumed that it was approved by Berachah, so it must be the best thing for them. Now I realize that children should be taught about God's lov
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Truthseek, Thank you for the encouragement, but I'm afraid my parenting skills were not the best. The authoritarian teaching tends to spill over into other parts of your life. It sounds like that is what happened in your family also. I was a taper in another state before moving to Houston. I attended a small church where the pastor was a "Thieme clone". There is a definite d
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Dear Truthseek: "Thank you to orange, truthtesty, truthlover, and kcjones for your supportive postings. Except for the support of my husband I have felt very alone in my struggle to escape from the effect of Thieme's teachings. I was really shocked when I saw this website to discover that so many people felt the same way I did." When I first started searching for anything
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Welcome Truthseek, I have used the name "Truthseeker" on several websites, but here I am "Truthlover". Both are true of me. :o) I was greatly saddened by your testimony, but thanks be to God who guided you to the truth when you were truly seeking it and showed you His amazing love. We must have been at Berachah at the same time, though I am older and moved there of my
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mile2, You are very welcome for the link, and I am glad it is useful. sistersoap, Go to the link and scroll down a little until you see on the left: "All the books! 64 in all. Literal, Grammatical, Historical, Etymological, Contextual, Exegetical, Hermeneutical interpretation of The Word! In rich text format " This is a link....click on it and you will see the list of b
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To anyone who might be interested........ Here is a link to 64 of Thieme's books (not sure if this is all of them) free to download off the Internet: This is a good reference for quotes. Truthlover
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mile2: "2 men now live with women they are not married to." I find this pretty shocking....even Thieme would not have advocated this! I can see how it could happen though in a group of people with no pastor and no accountability; everyone just minding their own business and not being judgmental. This is not Christianity! Truthlover
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Hi mile2, Your conversation with Katie was very interesting. I knew Bobby had been married 3 times. I actually attended his first wedding to Patty....the whole church was invited. I would question his Biblical qualifications for a pastor also. Divorce is a sin but not the unforgivable sin. There are certain Biblical reasons for divorce, but three times??? "So logically if a polygamist
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Quotemile2Quotemile2GeneZ and any other follower of the Thieme ministry: I assume that since Bobby Thieme is now Berachah's pastor and has tapes available, you listen to him teach as well as CoI. Thieme. I'm sure you are familiar with I Tim. chapter 3, which outlines the qualifications for a leader over the body of believers. I wonder how the members of Berachah and tapers justify
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Quotemile2 Gene: You recently posted: "It those here did not have their parents make them attend church when they did not want to go, you would not be getting these complaints. Notice how all who are complaining here were children or teenagers when they were made to attend church. The church was an open door. You could attend if you wanted. If you desired to remain anonymous? No v
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QuotePosted: 09-09-2007 07:09 AM Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Brothers and Sisters: I realize that I am new to this forum, having found it less than a week ago. I am growing increasingly alarmed that others who come here in search of healing after being under the mental and spiritual bootheel of Thieme will i
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Hello mile2, Thieme is from a wealthy family. From what I remember, when he decided to become a pastor, his father cut off his family inheritance. Before the father died I believe they reconciled and he became a believer. He had/has a sister whom he did not get along with and hadn't seen or talked to in years. I believe she was a Christian, but may have been charismatic or had some differ
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Welcome Juker, And thank you for your wonderful and refreshing testimony. I truly enjoyed it. I was also at Berachah from 1971 through the mid 1980's. You brought to mind some of the things I had forgotten. I too, came to realize later that many of Thieme's teachings were designed to insulate him from people and from doing what he did not want to do. Amazing how he twisted scripture
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sistersoap wrote: "The one flock of today, if you want to call it that, is THE BODY OF CHRIST, which Peter was not part of." Comment: THE BODY OF CHRIST is the Church which ALL the apostles were a part of. This would include Peter. I Cor 12:28: "And God hath set some in the church, first apostles....." In Christ, truthlover
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Hi Liberty, Thanks for the reply in the other thread entitled "Reading the Bible". I'm moving my reply to you here because I meant to post here in the first place. I must have pushed the wrong button. I am a novice at this. :lol: Do you remember me? We corresponded a few times by email a while back. You sent me some of your books. Thank you again for that. I was
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Apparently there are some Thiemites that don't believe he ever discouraged anyone from reading the Bible for themselves. I was there and heard it with my own ears numerous times, but didn't have a direct quote until now. I found the following quote on the thiemite.blogspot.com site: "The soul is a receiver. The lungs of the soul are apertures designed to receive bible doctrine.
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