I don’t much care about seeking goodwill from the other side when I have not ever seen an ounce of it shown.
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You haven’t seen any of ebb’s other threads, have you?
Let’s just say that this thread is mild compared to the bile and rancor that he throws at us every single day. So perhaps I should say that I’d be a fool to seek goodwill from him when he has never shown any.
But you? I attempted to be civil to you to start with. If you don’t want to be civil back, well, we can handle that. But let the record show that my first reply to you was very civil.
You speak of a tapestry. But it’s a tapestry that strictly refuses to include anyone who’s not Catholic. Personally I find it a mite hypocritical to accuse me of seeking clashes and contradictions while you call what I believe a damnable heresy.
Oh, and we DO apply this critical analysis to Scripture, but it’s far from ‘loveless.’ Rather, we love Scripture so much that we want to find out exactly what it says and what it means instead of just accepting what someone else tells us. And what we have found is that the Word of God holds up to the best critique that we can muster.
Do you think that God’s Word is so weak that human minds can break it apart so easily? Pfft.
I would think that if this Catholic tradition you speak is from the Lord, it too will hold up to ‘loveless critical techniques.’
So again I ask you, are you up for the challenge?
Evidently not...
I’ve been down that road on FR many times in the last 20 years but it has gotten tedious and I have better ways to spend my time.
So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.
Galatians 6:9