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Todd D. Utley
A little bit about me:
I was born and raised in central Indiana on an old homestead in Warrington near Wilkinson. It was and is still today a farm community. It was a wonderful place to grow up an...view moreA little bit about me:
I was born and raised in central Indiana on an old homestead in Warrington near Wilkinson. It was and is still today a farm community. It was a wonderful place to grow up and I love my meomories of that old house and barns and the surrounding acreage. My siblings and I were raised in a more old fashioned way than most of my peers today would recall. No air conditioning in our old farmhouse and the old boiler radiator system that was somewhat problematic every winter. We survived the blizzard of 1978 and un-like folks in larger metropolitian areas we were truly snowed in for two weeks. We were down to just peanut butter and crackers and very little LP left in the tank for our boiler before an oversized snowplow was able to break through with the aid of a large back hoe in several locations. A full size snowplow could break through the enormous drifts on our little country road that isolated us from Anderson which was 12 miles away. That was a very unique experience. We grew a huge garden every summer and canned anything and everything we could in the old Ball Jars that were so popular back then. We had almost everything homemade. We raised a calf most years for butchering and had plenty of chickens for eggs and a few for frying. We had ducks, cats, dogs, ponies, horses, and a few other strays. We went to church every Sunday Morning and Evening and every Wednesday night for Prayer Meeting. We were raised strict Baptist and we simply did not miss church unless we were very ill. My Mother and Father were hard working people who believed and still do believe very strongly in our Heavenly Father and everything in our Bible. I too am a believer and have similar viewpoints to theirs however I have studied the King James Bible for myself and have arrived at somewhat different conclusions. They have mellowed in their elder years and have changed their position on several things that the older Baptist Doctrines Supported. They have come to recognize, as I have, that many things are now known as legalism. We still have wonderful Biblical conversations to this day and we respect one another greatly and sometimes agree to disagree on the finer points of the Protestant Faith. The whole idea of believing in what you hear without studying for yourself is why I wrote this book. I reveal some things in this book that will be startling to many readers. If you have sat in church your whole life and still don't know what you really believe, then I hope that you will read this book, as it may change the way you see your faith.
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