And I believe that you were told a terrible lie that the Blood of Jesus was not powerful enough to set you free and make you new. If anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation. Behold! Look! All things are passed away and everything is made new. New! God doesn’t even remember what your sins are anymore and sees you as holy. If you’ve accepted Jesus and His sacrifice for you, God looks at you and sees the holiness of Jesus. In terms of where you stand with God, you wear the righteousness of Jesus Himself. God says that you are reconciled to Him. Forgiveness means that you no longer have to make payment on any wrongs you’ve done. But Jesus does better than that. Reconciliation means that God throws away the books of what you might owe in payment. He doesn’t keep the score or the score book, just as if you’ve never sinned. That is what Ron Williams should have reminded you of every day – that you are clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Himself, a flowing holy robe and a garment of praise. When you get baptized, anything that may be hanging around and it’s right to claim you gets buried under that water, and you are raised to walk in new life. (2 Corinthians 5; Romans 6:4)

You should have had someone there to tell you this message. You should have been told that God really loves those lost ones that He has to go and rescue and love and nurture. And we who are forgiven much love much.

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Buchwald, Ephraim. The Rape of Dinah: Impossible to Fathom. National Jewish Outreach Program Vayishlach 5770-2009.

Camp, CV. Wise, Strange and Holy: The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible. Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.

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Graves, R, Patai, R. Hebrew Myths. Greenwich House, 1964

Neusner, J. Genesis Rabbah: The Judaic Commentary to the Book of Genesis: A New American Translation. Scholars Press, 1985.

Pratt, JP. Jacob’s Seventieth Descendant. Meridian Magazine, 18Aug2000.

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Cynthia Mullen Kunsman is a nurse (BSN), naturopath (ND) and seminary graduate (MMin) with a wide variety of training and over 20 years of clinical experience. She has used her training in Complementary and Alternative Medicine as a lecturer and liaison to professional scientific and medical groups, in both academic and traditional clinical healthcare settings. She also completed additional studies in the field of thought reform, hypnotherapy for pain management, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) that is often associated with cultic group involvement. Her nursing experience ranges from intensive care, the training of critical care nurses, hospice care, case management and quality management, though she currently limits her practice to forensic medical record review and evaluation. Most of her current professional efforts concern the study of manipulative and coercive evangelical Christian groups and the recovery process from both thought reform and PTSD.

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