GREAT JOB, MAD DAWG.
I THINK YOU ARE EXTREMELY ACCURATE in your description and analysis.
I don’t think that’s ALL that’s going on, however.
But it’s a huge, huge, huge factor.
and the assumptions flowing therefrom . . . and the emotions attached to those assumptions . . . goodness! More accurately, BADNESS!
Now to be somewhat fair . . . God . . .
as in BIG DADDY . . .
has periodically shown this tendency to cross lots of boundaries . . . between groups, across all groups . . . even to the secular world . . .
and somewhat take them to task as though they were part of the inner sanctum of THE CHOSEN. He hasn’t done it often but . . . there’s been a time or two, IIRC.
GOD CERTAINLY has demonstratec a tendency to jerk everyone up by their hair periodically and
say essentially
PAY ATTENTION—YUH BEEN SLACKEN AND IGNORING MY PRIORITIES AND I’VE HAD ENOUGH OF IT.
Very often, He has used the most UNHEARABLE spokespersons seemingly available to convey such messages.
I see it as kind of a screening sort of gauntlet.
He makes some things easy and some things hard.
And the discerning WHO TRULY REALLY HAVE A HEART TO KNOW HIM AND PUT HIM FIRST
WILL ALWAYS FILTER THROUGH THE CHAFF FOR THE GOLD, THE TREAUSRE FROM THE THRONE.
All of the noise on these threads has essentially been about chaff. But such blood lust noise it’s been! Incredible.
God is not amused with that.
I think you are quite accurate that there is essentially a sub-cultures clash of major proportions on these threads.
But that doesn’t explain it away sufficiently, for me.
PEOPLE WHO TRULY PUT GOD FIRST AND WHO TRULY HAVE A HEART AFTER GOD WILL STILL BEHAVE WISELY, BIBLICALLY, LOVINGLY, FITTINGLY . . . IF NOTHING ELSE, IN A WAIT AND SEE GAMALIEL MODE.
Such contexts and events as these, stimili as these are tests. Everything is a test.
And many have been flunking—even subtracting out the very valid sub-cultures clash that you articulated so well.
That does not sound like God. Are you sure? God has never done that to anyone I know. Who has God done that to, that you know? Is that a personal experience?