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To: OLD REGGIE
And you, as an individual, is(sic) a cipher, zero, nothing, parrot, unthinking robot!

God bless you too!.

Why do you even bother to pretend you are a thinking individual?

You must have missed my lovely dissertation about being a sheep and having lush verdant pastures to explore while being safely kept within bounds by my loving shepherd.

Bounds are not bad. They keep me monotheistic, for one.

Just ask Holy Mother what you are supposed to think and say. That is the reason I am no longer a RC.

And this is the reason why rampant individualism and Protestantism go hand in hand. It's all about me me me. Don't like the preacher, go to a new one. Don't like the sacramentalism -- go to a different Church. Don't like their end times teaching -- go to a different Church. Can't find a good pastor -- open your own Church. Whatever suits your own individual reading of Scripture.

Then do all this while talking about the "unity" of all "true Christians" and downplaying the significance of all of the differences which cause the disunity in the first place.

It's vanity. The Devil whispers in your ear "you don't need to listen to anybody else, just read the Bible by yourself -- God promised to send his spirit to help you"

SD

769 posted on 10/17/2001 2:35:09 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
It's vanity. The Devil whispers in your ear "you don't need to listen to anybody else, just read the Bible by yourself -- God promised to send his spirit to help you"

Meanwhile the "sheep" get led to the slaughter.
784 posted on 10/17/2001 2:50:50 PM PDT by OLD REGGIE
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To: SoothingDave
The Devil whispers in your ear "you don't need to listen to anybody else, just read the Bible by yourself -- God promised to send his spirit to help you"

This comes awfully close to blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Isn't that sin unforgivable? I'll pray for you, for what it's worth.

825 posted on 10/17/2001 4:45:28 PM PDT by Iowegian
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To: SoothingDave
REGGIE: "And you, as an individual, is(sic) a cipher, zero, nothing, parrot, unthinking robot!"

SD: "God bless you too!."

Let me apologize for that outburst. Though I meant something like that, at some level, there was no excuse for me to reply to you in that manner. My tongue (typing) got ahead of my brain. Believe me, I don't think of you that way, (some maybe) but not you. Please forgive,

Reggie
909 posted on 10/18/2001 6:17:41 AM PDT by OLD REGGIE
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