In Reply to: Re: thanks... posted by Farmer on June 23, 2005 at 09:44:51:
Well I did ask her again and well same as before I can't really tell you what she said. She kind of mumbled the name, I said pardon.. and she mumbled it again. But it wasn't the International Church of Christ.
Although I'm sure last time I asked her ( when I was worried it was the family ) the words " International " and " Christ " were in there.
So I asked her if she'd ever heard of the ICOC adn she remained silent for a good ten seconds, looked at her feet, touched the back of her neck. And said no, she hadn't heard of them. And then that maybe she had and why was I asking.
I said a friend had mentioned them to me. She drew her hair up with her hand and asked me if there was a mark on her neck as someone at work said they'd drawn on her.
That was it.
There are times I guess when the truth is not so obvious. Like a trial in court. The accused is not admitting guilt. So the evidence is weighed up.
This is how I feel. I'm a one man jury. The evidencestrongly suggests some sort of recruitment process, of what I know about her life and belief it fits the ICOC perfectly. Unless anyone can tell me of a Church who gather in houses not Churches, who have a litteral interpretation of the Bible. ( no Christmas celebrations as it's not in the Bible ) , who encourage members to live together, who use song in their worship, who turn up to work late and exhausted from Bible meetings, who decieve, who believe theirs is the only one Church, who place an emphasis on loving God more than Jesus.
I could go on. When I read about the ICOC I am reading about the life of this woman from what I observe. But still I can't fully know that it is the truth without her telling me it iis the truth. Maybe it's a church simillar to the ICOC.
Not knowing the truth is what eats at me.