I do not personally believe that i have been arrogant, condescending, OR patronizing.
And neither have you.
So deny Robert's charges if they do not apply to you (and I don't believe that they do), but c'mon, p2brc... don't try'n pass them off on me!! Sheesh!!
Robert is a very kind fellow, and a most charitable ecumenicist. A genuinely nice guy... humanly speaking.
But what the ecumenicists is either of our communuions do not understand (and I say this with all due respect to Robert, whom I personally like a great deal)... is that there is such a thing as ABSOLUTE TRUTH.
If it were not so, the Father of Light would not have had to crush His Own Son upon the Cross for Our Sins.
In other words, this stuff matters. It matters to God. For Heaven's sake -- If it didn't, we could have made "our own way" back to Him without His Son having to suffer and bleed and die for our iniquities.
And that is the point that our kind-hearted "ecumenicist" neo-Universalists (both Roman and Protestant) seem to be missing.
We all have our weaknesses. I am self centered and prideful at times. I'm a doc and a published author. I use that over folks, and I am patronizing, even as I'm trying to be charitable.
I was too forward in my post. I should have included a "/sarcasm" line or something. It was intended as a good natured prod to you OP, nothing more, but also as a call to Robert to see that there is plnty of pride all around.
And I think I have made it clear that my position is based on a world situation that is deadly serious. I do not make these comments about contraception lightly, or to goad or inflame.
It bugs me that someone couldn't see that, and instead counted me as an enemy.
that only points out that I have failed some folks in my endeavors on this thread.