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To: annalex; metmom; Elsie; boatbums; CynicalBear; editor-surveyor; Alex Murphy
Respect should not be confused with liking everyone. It is a form of love: a desire for another to come to salvation in Christ.

And the devil is in the details, as this yet allows for imprisonment and torture of theological dissenters, or suspects or even witnesses, and slaying of the convicted (and often prolonged imprisonment in any case), all in the name of Christ.

And it is reasonable to expect you would have affirmed that kind of respect in such periods as the 13th century due to its papal sanction, and justify under the rubric of doing what is best for their souls, but which is contrary to what the NT teaches on the means the church used for proactive discipline, as that required spiritual power.

101 posted on 01/14/2013 6:42:19 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212; metmom; Elsie; boatbums; CynicalBear; editor-surveyor; Alex Murphy
you would have affirmed that kind of respect

Is it about me? Fascinating subject.

Yes, respect for the heretic includes taking his heresy and the consequences thereof seriously. I know I would.

102 posted on 01/14/2013 6:50:05 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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