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To: BackInBlack
You said to me "you have no faith in God's word," and asked me, "Why do you hate God's Word?"

You know how to get under my skin, BackInBlack, using ad hominem attacks against my faith. You don't know me, and my love for the Lord and the Scriptures. I don't have time for that kind of ad hominem nastiness.

205 posted on 11/19/2005 6:18:59 AM PST by Theo
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To: Theo

I said those things to make a point: you were so insistent on your preconceived notions about Scripture that you wouldn't reconsider when Scripture clearly contradicted you. You even rearranged the order of the words in question -- claiming that God said only that he'd condemn Adam on that day, rather than that Adam was doomed to die on that day -- instead of trying genuinely to understand what God must have meant by death.

Now, I realize that we all do that from time to time, even those of us who do try to understand and love God's word. I'm just tired of being on the religious defensive on these issues. Literalists are presumed to be more religious than others even when Scripture's plain words suggest a symbolic interpretation.


208 posted on 11/19/2005 7:44:06 AM PST by BackInBlack ("The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.")
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