I'm not asking you to be wimpy, just Christlike, my friend. But enough said. I will kindly recuse myself.
Can you remotely appreciate my reality, Dad?
You come in as a group.
You take over the thread with great intensity, hostility, vigor, etc.
DEMANDING
that I comply on my thread with discussing
YOUR
topic according to YOUR preferences.
When I FINALLY start getting together Scriptures and other docs about your topic on my thread
then you all run away
and
BLAME ME
for your scurry-ing away without engaging much at all in the dialogue you've been indignantly--even assaultively demanding!
And you want me to think THAT'S
Christlike?
Pretty cheeky seems a LOT more accurate a description, to me.
BTW, I think my last however many posts have been more Christlike than ya'll's.
But I'm happy to extend tons of grace on such scores. Always have been. I do like people to engage in a healthy give and take--especially one they've been DEMANDING at the end of a GROUP of long pointy fingers!
It's just REAL CONVENIENT that ya'll have withdrawn in this thunderous silence.
I realize you have a formidible job to just respond at all to the data on the table. But I really, REALLY DID expect better of all of you.
USN DAD, Dr E and DEJ,
I have tons of Grace and compassion, even regarding you folks going off and licking your wounds in this intellectual discourse. Your position has been well and good shredded in quadruplicate at every layer.
However, even nonChristian integrity requires you to finish what you started in SOME SORT OF EARNEST DIALGUE SORT OF FASHION.
Certainly Christian integrity requires that.
I realize that millions of pastors do not model it and do not even teach it around the world. But The Scriptures teach it and God requires it. We fail to do it to our hurt and peril.
Hit and run drivers are not Christlike in their doing so.
I'm happy to do my part in whatever way is remotely fitting. Just give me a clue.
Blessings,