What confession of sin is NOT: 1. Informing a human priest in the confession booth. 2. Giving God information. “God, You won’t believe what I've done.” 3. Speculating. “IF...I have sinned...” 4. Saying “I’m sorry...” “....just a joke!” 5. Asking/pleading to God for forgiveness for our sins. Forgiveness already available in Christ's death. 6. Plea-bargaining for a lesser charge. “Yes...but....” 7. Emotional groveling; mental contortions. 8. Psychological catharsis. “Feel good when you get it off your chest” 9. Superficial or flippant incantation. (Sin was reason for Jesus’ death). 10. “Confessionalism” – (Excessive sin-consciousness; wallowing in weakness; focusing on ‘flesh’; navel-gazing introspection; “Worm-theology”; Pride of sinfulness; back-handed basis of spirituality; exhibitionism; revel in relating sinfulness in testimony; Who was the worst?). 11. Based on false established attitudes which create false-guilt and false-confession. Some try to agree with God that something is wrong, when God never said it is sin. But, if not done in faith, it is sin. (Rom. 14:23).
James Fowler

Basic Epidemiology 2

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Basic Epidemiology

Basic Epidemiology 2

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Excerpts from Seale, J. “Origins of the AIDS viruses, HIV-1 and HIV-2: Fact or Fiction? Discussion Paper.” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 81:9 pp. 537-539

“Published results of experiments in primate colonies, carried out since the early 1960s, show that epidemics of AIDS-like disease, and of leukaemias, which previously did not exist, have been produced artificially in non-human primates.”

“An outbreak of infectious leukaemia, affecting 100 of more than 1000 baboons of the monkey colony at the Institute of Experimental Pathology at Sukhumi, Georgia, in the USSR, started in 1967. It followed injection of blood from members of one primate species, Homo sapiens [humans], into 10 members of a different primate species, Papio hamadryas (baboons). Thereafter ‘close contact’ was sufficient to transmit the disease amongst the baboon.”

“Numerous published papers describe the successful growth of several lentiviruses from primate and other mammailian species in human cell culture, starting with the growth of visna virus from sheep in cells from human embryos in 1961.”

“The technology required to produce, artificially, epidemics of HIV-1, HIV-2 and other new retroviruses pathogenic to man was already available in the 1960s.”

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