Thanks.
Excellent post.
And this:
However, I do criticize the practice because it can so easily LEAD to exactly what God warned us to never do in the Bible.
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Except for the perversities of human nature . . . it is mystifying why anyone claiming to be a Christian would appear to tenaciously, vigorously coze up as close as possible to the very thing God forbade in the harshest of terms in Scripture
RATHER THAN
FLEEING AS FAR AWAY FROM SUCH AS POSSIBLE.
Must have something to do with the “heart being deceitfully wicked” sort of stuff.