I think what galls most of us here is your holier than thou attitude.
Some very good quotes from scripture have been given here so far and you've ignored God's word and chastened the messenger.
WHY should one listen to YOU if you, yourself will not heed the Word of God for your own bigotted doctrine?
Some very good quotes from scripture have been given here so far and you’ve ignored God’s word and chastened the messenger.
WHY should one listen to YOU if you, yourself will not heed the Word of God for your own bigotted doctrine?
>>Bigoted. I used to be one of you, but the more I looked at the Bible and how the earliest Christians read the Bible, the more I realized that Evangelicalism and the rest of Protestantism was dead wrong.
There’s enough anti-Catholic bigotry on FR and has been for years to write a book about.
You give me quotes from scripture, take them out of context without understanding their deeper historical, cultural, and linguistic contexts. Then you (pl.) interpret the Bible in the light of Renascence humanistic philosophy and imagine that it means what you say it does, and when I have a difference of opinion you resort to ad hominem attacks telling me that I am going against the Word of God.
If you want to discuss a holier-than-thou attitude, then maybe some individuals should look in the mirror.
If you want to understand St. Paul, read up on 1st century Hellenistic Judaism to find the proper context.
The reactionary literalism of the post-J. Gresham Machen era in Evangelicalism has totally distorted the Bible’s meaning.
Some very good quotes from scripture have been given here so far and you've ignored God's word and chastened the messenger.
WHY should one listen to YOU if you, yourself will not heed the Word of God for your own bigotted doctrine?
Knarf you are usually a good debator, but I hiope that you see that you azre doling here what you accuse rzman21 of and resorting to Ad hom attacks.
1) have you polled the members of this thread/ forum and determined that over 50% are "galled" by his "holier than thou" attitude?
2) How do you know that he has "ignored Gods word" as opposed to ignoring someone else's interpretation?
3) As far as chasenting the messenger, Doesn't the Bible tell us to chasten our brothers in the spirit of fraternal correction? and aren't you doing the exact same thing with your post?
4)your comment about why one should listen to him because he has a "bigoted doctrine" is also an Ad Hom attack. You need to prove that he (His arguement) is wrong not just say that he has a bigoted doctrine.
He and they always do...