However, I don't mind strong dialog. Sometimes that's what it takes for our eyes to be pried off an error and directed toward the truth.
I'm recalling the halcyon days of the FR religion forum when guys like the_doc and Jerry_m took no prisoners in their heartfelt, heated discussions. And through those discussions former Arminians like RnMomof7 and ksen realized the truth of the reformed perspective and became strong and righteous proponents for God's sovereignty and grace alone.
We are to keep our beliefs salted. I suppose it's a matter of degrees. Salt is required to preserve and refine and clarify. Too much salt makes even good meat almost unpalatable; not enough and no one can even taste it.
"Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another." -- Mark 9:50"Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man." -- Colossians 4:6
Grace and salt. Peace and salt. Tricky, but not impossible.
Well put.
Thx.