Apologies are hard, public ones more so. If you don't accept someone's apology, that's your right, but still sad.
Maybe you have never been wrong in your life, and that is just awesome. But some of us humans need forgiveness once in a while.
I've been forgiven, and try to accept apologies when they are proffered.
I agree with you about grace and mercy and forgiveness. God is lavish with it.
My issue with Naiomi is that WE DIDN’T NEED HER TO TELL US THE TRUTH. We knew it. She’s the slow one. Somehow we are to believe a formerly deceived expert makes a more compelling witness.
Have you ever had someone finally admit you were right about something “all along”? Notice how that person won’t believe you on some lie they are NOW believing? You can see through it this time, too—God’s Word illuminates the dumbest of us!—but their delusion enables them to be determinedly wrong all over again.
Please focus on the phrase “Kabuki theater”, which was used frequently by the late Rush Limbaugh. It has many dimensions, and one of them AFAIK has to do with liberals making criticisms of other liberals that have a conservative ring to them; it is not necessarily an indicator of repentance. Remember that 1 Thessalonians 5:21 says to “(p)rove all things”, and it could very well encompass things like this; never mind Jeremiah 13:23.