by Michael P. Carroll
Posted on 12/04/2006 7:52:47 PM PST by Pyro7480
LOL.
True.
I enjoy Biblical Numerics too. It's really fascinating how they play out in the Bible. Just another confirmation of it being Divinely Inspired. Another point here is that those 7 (spiritual perfection) churches were laid out in a circle on a map, representing the world.
last i checked there's no problem insulting outright the teachings of othe 'faiths', nor is clinging strong to the words written in the Bible as opposed to assertions like 'probably'.
well good thing we ain't all judging eachother then.
It appears that the most fitting response is
GTTM
That is a fascinating comparison, GC. Thank you for posting it. Let those with ears to hear and eyes to see know the truth.
INDEED. The servant is not about his Master.
Nor, I'd think, is the servant's mother above her Master. LOL.
Which was scandalous for a list of reasons! LOL.
You mean she wasn't drying His feet with her hair THROUGH a hat or doily?
What horror!
indeed, she must have been quite busy pondering how to take Christians and convince them that condoms, abortion, gay sex, and war were perfectly Christian activities.
Kawaii:
Apostasy is complete rejection of Christian belief. Heresy is teaching false doctrine as if it were Christian doctrine. It is not apostasy. Repeating what someone's pastor said is usually not heresy but mere ignorance. Schism is lack of ecclesial unity. It is not at all heresy.
Gamecock:
The offer stands. I am here to answer questions, and have been for near 10,000 posts.
all as in many not every.
= = =
I think I'm getting confused.
I thought we were supposed to get all fussed up about precision in wording.
Must have missed another memo.
Thanks to both of you. Interestingly I am being accused of starting flame wars by some camps.
I have asked them to show me where I am misrepresenting any group, but doubt I'll get an answer....
good point. though it seems that our 'baptist' gay bus driving pals in the pic i posted would still fit the bill of heretics not apostates, and i should have said in as much as protestants are heretics (as opposed to saying they're apostates)
Or perfection, but good find Ping-Pong!
Actually, folks are welcome to assault my beliefs and Biblical interpretations 24/7.
God is my judge and protector. I'm quite up for the fray.
However, there's a decidedly certain bent hereon toward assaulting Protesties and making it significantly over the line of personal or very nearly so with great venom.
If Protesties post things 1/100th that assaultive, then the others run SCREAMING, wailing to the RM.
That's not very impressive to a lot of the Protesties, I know.
I doubt it even thrills the RM that much.
Some reasonable amount of vigorous back and forth and forceful, even fierce wording is somewhat understandable, reasonable and even often fitting . . .
but the dripping venom; the self-righteous lofty assaultive judgmentalism COUPLED WITH A FIERCELY THIN SKINNED DOUBLE STANDARD [which on the one hand judges and sentences all Protesties to aposticism, satan's work . . . and on the other wails at anything above pablum criticizing their own camp]
frankly stinks.
Let me introduce the concept of
A STRAW DOG.
The rest of us hereon are pretty good at recognizing
STRAW DOGS.
This
STRAW DOG
is getting so old, tattered, smelly and worthless, perhaps the rest of us just need to 100% ignore all mention of the silly thing.
dog.
wolf.
coincidence?
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