I am no victim, Boatbums. God has blessed my life in ways I could have never imagined.
I do object to false witnessing. Have you made any false witnesses against anyone recently?
>>>Anyone who imagines they must insult, accuse, defame, slander, patronize, LIE or degrade instead of engaging in a discussion on FACTS, demonstrates an inability to defend their position against others who clearly hold to a more Biblical hermeneutic.<<<
I agree 100%.
BTW, do you recall that you claimed that Elijah was the "voice of him crying in the wilderness;" but you also seemed to emphatically deny in a previous thread that John the Baptist was Elijah? And do you recall that earlier you also implied that John the Baptist was the "voice of him crying in the wilderness?"
Were you being hermeneutically consistent? You do remember that, don't you?
Philip
Glad to hear it, now explain why in this thread you are insulting, defaming, patronizing and degrading those who do not hold to your rejection of Dispensationalism? That seems to be your default tone on just about every thread I have seen you in when someone defends their opposing position. It's why I hesitate to join a thread you originate. Rather than listening respectfully to others' views, you jump almost immediately to attack mode. Someone secure in what they believe and why they believe it wouldn't need to behave that way. I can defend what I believe, rebuke what I think is error and STILL be respectful towards individuals. I don't see a need to be condescending towards others who may disagree with me.
As for playing "victim", I was referring to your defensiveness over how a previous thread proceeded and your seeming inability to understand why others were asking you to open a new thread where the subject you favored could be addressed rather than continue to pour fuel on the fire of criticism Catholics were pointing to as our failure of unity. Please tell me you finally get that?
As to the Elijah disagreement - even though we aren't supposed to drag arguments across from other threads - my contention was in disputing the idea that John the Baptist was THE Elijah the prophet reborn rather than him coming in the "spirit of Elijah" as Jesus said. That is being both consistent in hermeneutics as well as sound Biblical doctrine. Christians don't believe in reincarnation.