I would also like to thank everyone. My only interest in signing up here was to ask about the Living Word church in Syracuse NY I had a run in with last month. I guess they are not affiliated with the original Living Word, but I can tell you, the way they act is damn close. I'm also currently watching de-conversion videos on youtube. The stories I'm reading here and watching on youtube
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Reepicheep You are right, that IS the Syracuse chapter I experienced. Yeah sorry I should have put “trigger warning” on that video link. The audio is truly disturbing. I just saw a Pentecostal church on youtube and it’s pretty much the same. Like I said in my first post, I had no idea those churches were this far north. Thanks for clearing up the confusion about the original Living Word starte
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Reepicheep, Thanks for the reply and info. Much appreciated. I'm going to link you to a page I found about the Syracuse church. Also, here is a link to a video on their youtube channel. Go to the end, about 1:41. This is what really set off the final red flag for me. Those sounds the people are making are disturbing and have mental illness written all over them IMO. I guess
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Hi, I just signed up here and this is my first post. I recently had an encounter with Living Word Church of Syracuse NY. I just want to confirm these are the people we are discussing on this forum. I dug up as much info as I could. From what I learned, it was founded by John Robert Stevens. When he died in 1983, he passed it to his wife Marilyn. It would land here in Syracuse in 1972, this is the
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Has anybody had experience with some guy named "Raphah," who claims to have dug us the Original manuscripts of the Bible in northern Iraq and then taken them to a hide out in the Himalayas? He has a website dealing with the "Original Scriptures." He uses Hebraicisms, and claims that his followers must use the Hebrew name of God, and the Hebrew name for Jesus, as a qualifier
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