Since I said nothign about myself or my own worth, your false claim of my agenda fails.
Your calling for an open mind only tells me you are a liberal, and not a conservative. If you are calling for me to be open to someone who is engaging in some wicked act just so I can hear them say, "TAX CUTS", then according to your logic, I can ask a CHILD MOLESTER to tell us about Privatizing Social Security.
Thanks for sharing! :)
Friendships
While the Christian is to exhibit genuine love for all of mankind, the Word of God makes it clear that a believer is to be discriminatory in the choice of his close companions (see Psalm 119:63).
Solomon saw that, “He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed” (Proverbs 13:20). The Apostle Paul likewise noted, “Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals” (1 Corinthians 15:33). As Dr. John Whitcomb has observed, “All things being equal, bad apples make good apples go rotten, and the good apples do not make the rotten ones any better.”
Thus, while the Christian is to be cordial towards all, especially towards those of like precious faith, he, nevertheless, is to be selective in his choice of close companionships. The best way to do this, of course, is to have the right interests, and to allow our interests to govern our close friendships.
I do not know your agenda, but you certianly sound like a person who puts himself on a pedestal for judging other people.
YOU RESPONDED:
Since I said nothign about myself or my own worth, your false claim of my agenda fails.
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This is very interesting. You seem to have the conceit that you can make moral judgments about people you hear on the radio or in print and then you can posture as their judge and jury; and then, when you are called to account for that:
AS WHERE I WROTE:
Who are you to be so lacking in an open mind that you are going to act as if you can judge the real inner meaning of a person's private acts?
IT IS THEN THAT YOU WANT TO ASSERT RELIEF FROM THE EYES OF OTHERS:
your false claim of my agenda fails.
WHY?
Well, you say the reason is because:
"Since I said nothign about myself or my own worth"
Sir, you have said an awful lot about yourself. You probably want a black and white moral universe where YOU have no doubt in judging others. If there are black and white moral judgments to be made, they are reserved for one who has access to all the pertinent facts and the struggles and meaning of the heart of the individual moral actor. You are usurping a role as JUDGE to which you are not entitled. You demonstrate this in your posts. You cannot shrink back and say you have proclaimed nothing. But I am not making a moral judgment about you or weighing whether and to what extent your actions and behaviors are sinful.
This is the difference between judgments per se and one specific type of judgment: moral judgments. You too easily ignore that difference and that is why your self-righteous approach is not helpful and provides our enemies with an embodiement of the cariacture to which they eagerly wish to paint all of us.