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winner08:
Hello everybody: I have what seems a very different story concerning first loves. I went to catholic school for the first 4 yrs of my life. This included my baptism, communion and my comformation. All the while going to Sunday school every week. After the 4 yrs I started public school. I really haven't belong or been to a church since. That said I still studied read and learned on my own. I never stopped thinking about God.  Now and then I would pop in maby on a Easter sunday with a friend I think one time I did a midnight Christmas mass. That was it. Most if not all of my adult learning's of Christ has been, must have been guided by the Holy Spirit. How else could I have gotten here? This is where my questions lies. I was too young to even know what or who God was in grade school. Who, what, and where is my first love. Did I even have one. If not where does that leave me in regard to first loves?? Oh yea, I did do alot of reading with the Armstrong's booklets and magazines. They almost had me, then along came Ray.  ;) ;)

Jackie Lee:
I at one time watched Garner Ted Armstrong on television pretty regular.
Is this who you all talk about as the Armstrongs?

Kat:

Hi Darren,

What my understanding of 'first love' is, when you first come to an understanding of who Christ is... basically the Son of God that came in human form and died as a sin offering.  Whenever you came to this understanding and for most that would have been in church, but maybe you came to see this in your own studies.  But it was whenever you first came to know Christ as the Savior and found joy in that.  So whatever age and where ever you may have been does not seem to matter so much, but that you did come to believe that Christ was the Son of God. 

I was a young adult and even though I did not know the truth at that time I was very happy to understand that Christ was my Savior.
But after the joy of finding out about Christ at first we all lose this 'love' in one way or another.  Either the church overshadow this with their own doctrines or we get lose in the cares of the world, but we do lose it.  Then at the appointed time God draws us back to Him, it's only a few in this age, but eventually it will be all.

That how I see it, I hope that it helps. 

mercy, peace and love
Kat

p.s. Jackie Lee, Herbert Armstrong was the founder of WorldWide Church of God, Ambassador College and the Plain Truth mag., Garner Ted was his son.

winner08:
Yes Jackie Lee: Ted Garner Armstrong. I started watching his TV programmes also. I thought this man was great. I thought I had found the truth in his teachings. Now I know I was deceived as well as millions of others. In say that, I would not have found Ray's site as I did. So I guess I  Ted was an instrument of God that lead me to Ray's teachings and the real truth. Just another step in the ladder that lead me here. As y'all would say I am where I am at this time and place because it is God's will for me. It could not have gone any other way.

Jackie Lee:
Thanks Kat and Darren,
 When I left the church the first time when I was young, I had thought I was going to hell, that was what I had been taught.
I remembered the empty feeling of thinking there was no hope for me.
Then when I returned to the church in the 80's and remained there until 2000, I knew then I was called out of the church for good.

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