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Another question for you. Why do think anyone should listen to you on the subject of Christianity, since by your conduct you are obviously and demonstrably not a Christian?

Ok, ok. Another question. Are you working alone, or are you fronting for some kind of larger anti-Christian group?

Old time P L A C E M A R K E R

Another question for you. Why do think anyone should listen to you on the subject of Christianity, since by your conduct you are obviously and demonstrably not a Christian?

Ok, ok. Another question. Are you working alone, or are you fronting for some kind of larger anti-Christian group?

Dang!!!

More TarBaby questions!

NIV Job 20:3
I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding inspires me to reply.

(It coulda been worse!!)

NIV Nehemiah 13:25
I rebuked them and called curses down on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath in God's name and said: "You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves.

NIV Proverbs 17:10
   A rebuke impresses a man of discernment more than a hundred lashes a fool.

NIV Proverbs 28:23
   He who rebukes a man will in the end gain more favor than he who has a flattering tongue.

NIV Leviticus 19:16-18
16. "`Do not go about spreading slander among your people.   "`Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor's life. I am the LORD.
17. "`Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt.
18. "`Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

NIV 1 Timothy 5:1-2
1. Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers,
2. older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

NIV 2 Timothy 4:2
   Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction.

NIV Titus 1:13-16
13. This testimony is true. Therefore, rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith
14. and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of those who reject the truth.
15. To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
16. They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.

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

Since you've chosen to lash out a me, instead of the things I post, you've chosen an easy target.

From the older thread to which I refered.....

Narby: And you still haven't addressed why you think it's a good idea to create an artificial stumbling block to young people accepting Christ.

You tell them that in order to have faith like you, they must reject virtually all of science.

Elsie: I do??? Methink you exaggerate a bit!

Seems to me that the STUMBLING block occurs later in the BOOK.

NIV Psalms 37:23-24
23. If the LORD delights in a man's way, he makes his steps firm;
24. though he stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand.

NIV Isaiah 8:11-15
11. The LORD spoke to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people. He said:
12. "Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy ; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it.
13. The LORD Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread,
14. and he will be a sanctuary; but for both houses of Israel he will be a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare.
15. Many of them will stumble; they will fall and be broken, they will be snared and captured."

NIV Romans 9:33
As it is written: "See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."

NIV 1 Peter 2:6-8
6. For in Scripture it says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."
7. Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, "The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone, "
8. and, "A stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall." They stumble because they disobey the message--which is also what they were destined for.