[Mountain Mary]

Thanks EnglishCon.

What MAY restore some sanity to this formerly stellar site is for people to realize that we all have the power of personal choice. And it exercise it is our God given right.

Stating our opinions and why we came to believe in something is one thing. Trying to CONTROL, guilt, shame or change the minds of others is where we lose it.

[EnglishCon]

We have disputed a few times :)

Your opinion is rock solid as far as I am concerned. I may not agree, but I respect you too much to argue. You came to your conclusion through thought, reading and prayer.

That is enough for me.

Obligatory thing - you are still going to vote down ticket!

[Elsie]

Trying to CONTROL, guilt, shame or change the minds of others is where we lose it.

2 Timothy 3:16-17
16. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
17. so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

 

2 Timothy 4:3-4
3. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
4. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

 

Titus 1:11
They must be silenced, because they are ruining whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach--and that for the sake of dishonest gain.

 

Titus 2:1
You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine.

 

Titus 2:15
These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.