Posted on 06/10/2007 3:02:20 PM PDT by NYer
Excellent points, Brother.
Thanks. Am humbled by your wisdom.
However,
insisting that they have failed your criteria or standard . . . or even someone else’s or even a Scriptural one
. . . does not automatically mean that’s the true facts of the matter.
LOL.
Refreshing humor. Thanks.
I’m really having trouble making any sense out of your reply.
IN the context of your earlier reply . . . your use of Samuel Morris came across as exceedingly mocking and very hypocritically so.
As to reasons to read it . . . because it demonstrates Holy Spirit’s proof of something you assert is impossible more or less.
“I never said that.”
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IIRC, I copied and pasted from your words from your post—essentially.
That seems like a softer statement.
However, quite honestly, your postings on this thread were my first impressions of hate on this thread.
And in general, Mad Dawg and some others of us have been helpful in turning down the volume on the tones and venom on such threads on the part of all sides.
You COULD join such an effort.
. . . that’s how it works out here.
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No. I do understand
that
that is YOUR CONSTRUCTION reality, however
I don't often look at non-Catholic threads since I am a very committed Catholic and find beauty,truth and goodness in Catholicism and have no room in my head for argumentation that serves no purpose for me. Active participation in the Neverending threads familiarized me with the positions that non-Catholics take and after seeing the same persons ask the same questions and get the same answers,I basically stepped back unless a subject really interests me.
In addition to involving a Catholic subject,this topic piqued my interest and I stopped by just to comment that I do "Thank God For the Magisterium". I was surprised to see all of the "back and forth",and proceeded to read all of the comments. I noted your use of the word magicsterical (which I felt was demeaning to Catholicism) only to learn that you use it for other denominations too. It would be very helpful to me if you could offer two or three examples of this usage,written prior to the last week. Thanks in advance.
As an aside,I appreciate your responses so much more when they are just in ordinary print.
I don’t know how you twisted that upside down and inside out but you sure seemed to manage it somehow.
DISAGREEMENT IS NOT IDENTICALLY EQUAL TO
MISUNDERSTANDING, MISCONSTRUING, LYING ABOUT ETC. your theological positions!
Sheesh!
This is not rocket science.
It IS possible to understand your positions and still consider them flawed, UnBiblical, wrong, dangerous, whatever.
But that is what I am called to do whenever your personal interpretation of scripture leads you to insinuate my religion is riddled with errors.
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Hogwash. That’s YOUR construction on it.
I’m a big boy. It hasn’t hurt me a bit when folks within or without my particular cluster of Christianity has pointed out facets of my Biblical interpretations or Christian belief and practice which struck them as UnBiblical or flawed.
They helped me grow in Christ a lot.
I have not felt a long list of them expected me to be their robot or puppet in religious thought. Occasionally some came across that way. They didn’t get very far.
You certainly come across that way. You come across that way in tone and in word choice and in sentence construction.
Seeing your wedding pics this morning, I could assert that that’s partly a function of your personality. But that’s an inadequate explanation. You have CHOSEN to come across that way—perhaps not deliberately but your choices resulting in how you come across have resulted in that strong impression.
I suppose that’s one possible construction . . .
I suppose I could have said . . .
IF ONE CHOOSES TO FOLLOW CHRIST MOST CLOSELY . . . . then in my view, they would do well to . . .
Yes. It has been so in my life . . . people . . .
They are so much more tangible and . . . SEEMINGLY accessible than supposedly distant God.
That perception . . . laying that perception aside and owning more fully and more comprehensively that The God of All Creation resides within . . . and is exceedingly accessible and Loves me more than I love myself . . .
That is still a work in progress.
Thanks for your edifying comment.
LUB,
Thanks for clarifying that it’s present tense. I missed that.
Sure sounded ALLLLLL INCLUSIVE, to me.
Besss him lil ol heart.
as though the RC’s were the only ones accused of such.
Now where did I put that teddy bear.
Interesting . .
One of my hidden aggendas in this series of posts
was to give a vigorous response to the tones, the hostility,
to the ALL ENCOMPASSING ABSOLUTIST, LOP-SIDED
statements so chronic in your posts.
So, consrue that however you will.
You flatter yourself and your RC edifice.
You seem to have missed multiple times
my noting very plainly that
I am speking of
ALL MAGICSTERICAL OF ALL DENOINATIONS, INCLUDING THE RC’s.
In that case, Dear Bro, tweak away and carry on . . .
hopefully on thick foam padding under feet.
LUBBB
BTW, I told you I often don’t get jokes well.
I stated a hypothesis with that as one plausible possibility.
But, hey, if your response cinches the deal, I can live with that.
It is quite possible that what you label as attacks are something else entirely.
Naw, I don’t enjoy Gatorade.
I’m actually doing quite fine.
But I’m not a static sort of person . . . persistent at times . . . but not static.
This compulsion you seem to have to squeeze me into some robot or puppet role . . . is it perseveration that results in that compulsion or what?
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