[Religion Moderator]

You think you know scripture, but you don't

Do not read the mind of another Freeper. That is a form of "making it personal."

Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.

[bdeaner]

Let me re-phrase it this way, which is in line with the intention of the original post:

Iscool, you claim to know scripture, but your arguments do not bear out this claim, because you do not avail yourself of history and the early fathers, who understood its cultural and historical context better than we do....