“LOL! I’m addressing your post #125, wherein you explicitly try to make your interpretation of the Scriptures normative for everyone, and conflate your interpretation of the Scriptures with Truth.”
Are you seriously going to keep spamming me with this nonsense? What makes either of you think that I am all that concerned if you think that I behave as my very own Pope? What makes you think I care if you simply say “I disagree!” very loudly, or complain that I have my own so-called “interpretation?” I’ve yet to see evidence that you guys actually have an “alternate interpretation” for any of the scriptures provided. Exactly how many interpretations can you get from Jesus saying, “You have not chosen me, I have chosen you”? Or “You do not believe, because you are not of my sheep. My sheep hear my voice and I know them”? Or from Paul, “whom He predestinates He calls, whom He calls He justifies, and whom He justifies He glorifies”? Or from Acts, “As many believed as were ordained”? And these are only just a few of them.
But instead, you’re wasting my time by attacking me personally, making wry faces and sticking your tongue at me, as if the evidence of your ability to mock me can wash away the scriptures.
As Augustine says, “WE WERE ELECTED AND PREDESTINATED, NOT BECAUSE WE WERE GOING TO BE HOLY, BUT IN ORDER THAT WE MIGHT BE SO.”
What indeed? Certainly, Pope GPH doesn't care what the 'little people' think of Him. He is, after all, Pope GPH.
I continue to laugh at the hypocrisy.