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To: 1000 silverlings
this is a public forum where the bible truth is being discussed, and what you posted was in sharp contrast to what 2 Kings says. If you don't want to learn bible truth then don't post your own ideas up here where they will be challenged.

Actually this is a forum which includes a number of different people talking about number of different issues more or less clearly related to the propriety or lack thereof of a movie's treatment of the Mother of God. And not all those people view the Bible the way you do.

And without having consulted anyone, I would venture to guess that Kosta's issue was not with the disagreement about the identity of the Samaritans but the remark that he didn't know what he was talking about.

I simply do not understand how people can talk about avoiding boasting and then "count coup", or try to, every time you score (or think you've scored) what you take to be a Biblical point. And then the rest of the homies gather round and exchange high fives.

If I wanted to persuade somebody, I'd make yielding to my point of view as impersonal and gentle as possible. You all seem to want to make it hard and humiliating. You seem to want to add to the difficulty of changing one's cherished opinion the further difficulty of knowing that you will mock your opponent like a football player who's reached the end zone.

Some want to set people free. Others evidently want to conquer. I see nothing of faith, hope, or charity in those of either side who set out to disrespect and to show contempt for those with whom they disagree and who take pride in upsetting those who differ from them. You did not so learn Christ. (Yes, I know you don't think RCs read the Scripture HALF so well as you do, but I know about Jesus's hard words. I just don't they they excuse, much less justify, yours.) I'd venture to say that between winning a soul to the Truth, or winning an argument, many here seem to prefer winning the argument and losing the soul.

God help us.

8,586 posted on 02/02/2007 10:21:31 AM PST by Mad Dawg ("It's our humility which makes us great." -- Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers)
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To: Mad Dawg

"Don't post to me again" is just another way to silence your opponents when they are speaking what you don't want to hear and you don't want others to hear it either. If one has scriptural truth to back up his arguments, he should post it, or accept correction, not pout. Instead of posting to me, you might start with your own friends.


8,594 posted on 02/02/2007 10:40:14 AM PST by 1000 silverlings
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