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To: NorthMountain

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Can’t you just go back to #48 and answer the simple question? It’s on the last line I believe.

I’m beginning to think that you don’t really know what you mean by the use of your term...’objective truth’

Do you even remember what sin we’re talking about?

What do you mean by ‘discussing matters in good faith’...please be detailed?


87 posted on 11/19/2014 9:33:05 AM PST by southernmann
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To: southernmann
How about we instead go back to Number 44, in which I quoted this, from another of the OP author's works:

Pride - The sinful drive that distorts proper self love so that we esteem ourself more than is proper and at the same time denigrate the goodness of others. There is such a thing as well ordered self love and self esteem but Pride is love of self which is perverted causes us unjustly to think of others as beneath us or less worthy. Pride also stirs us to reject lawful authority of others over us including God and refuses appropriate submission. Pride is at the root of every sin for through it we pridefully think we have a way better than what God has set forth or that we alone can be the judge of right and wrong. Adam and Eve wanted to “be like Gods” and wanted themselves to determine what was right and wrong. Hence they demanded to eat of the tree of the “Knowledge of good and evil.” This is Pride.

Do you have any comprehension of this paragraph? Does it spark any thoughts at all in your mind?

Some other questions for you:

1) Do you acknowledge the existence of any deity whatsoever, whether singular or one of many?

2) Do you acknowledge the existence of a singular deity that created all things which we perceive with our senses?

3) Do you acknowledge that you, yourself were created out of nothing by a singular deity, and held in existence by said deity?

4) Do you acknowledge that a singular deity caused its messages to humans to be recorded in writing? That said writings are found in what is commonly known as "The Bible"?

5) Do you acknowledge that a singular deity took on human flesh, lived and died as a human, and rose from the dead?

88 posted on 11/19/2014 9:43:53 AM PST by NorthMountain
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