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And I note the mocking use of term "dearest" in the conversation which followed your wonderful essay. And, as usual, that conversation has been directed away from the very issues you addressed here.

Of course I noted that too, dearest sister in Christ. It's "par for the course" with this correspondent: Sneer, and rather than answer direct questions, change the subject.

People may wonder why I continue to engage with such bad-faith correspondents. My explanation: I have a simple duty to warn. See Ezekiel 33: 7–9:

So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.
If I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die; and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.
But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your soul.

Thank you ever so much for your kind words of support!