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All I grasp of what is going on here is YOU, getting your knickers in a knot because someone expressed an opinion - something EVERYONE here has just as much right to as you do. You apparently believe that doctrine doesn't or shouldn't matter to a Christian and you would be absolutely WRONG to think that. All you have to do is look at how God dealt with it to know that it IS highly critical to following God in a correct way and according to how HE wants us to. This isn't to say that we shouldn't respect others and to treat others as we would want to be treated, but when someone promotes ideas that fly in the face of the truth, they SHOULD be corrected. Those who refuse correction, should be noted. We are told to have no fellowship with the "unfruitful works of darkness". The Apostle John had this to say:

Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds. (I John 1:9-11)

Nobody says you should be murdered - THAT is being hysterical.

boatbums: "All I grasp of what is going on here is YOU, getting your knickers in a knot because someone expressed an opinion - something EVERYONE here has just as much right to as you do."

BJK response: "God Damned Heretic" is a pretty strong opinion, one reminding us that Jesus was called a God Damned Blasphemer before being murdered, and that countless other Christians were called "God Damned Heretics" before they too were murdered (i.e., burned at the stake) in the name of orthodox Christianity.

boatbums: "You apparently believe that doctrine doesn't or shouldn't matter to a Christian and you would be absolutely WRONG to think that."

FRiend, I am here to request that religious views similar to those of our Founders and today's "restorationists" Christians should be treated with forbearance and respect on Free Republic, especially in News/Activism.

boatbums: "All you have to do is look at how God dealt with it to know that it IS highly critical to following God in a correct way and according to how HE wants us to.
This isn't to say that we shouldn't respect others and to treat others as we would want to be treated, but when someone promotes ideas that fly in the face of the truth, they SHOULD be corrected."

"Treat others as we would want to be treated?" -- now there's a novel idea.
Wherever did it come from? </sarc>

As for "Corrected", sure.
"Debated", sure.
Labeled as a "God Damned Heretic", no, not on Free Republic's News/Activism forum.

boatbums quoting 2 John 1:9: "Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God;"

And yet, in no post on this thread or any other have I denied even a word of what the New Testament clearly says about Jesus.

boatbums: "Nobody says you should be murdered - THAT is being hysterical."

Sorry, FRiend boatbums, but the "hysteria" is all on your team, and you should be helping to bring these lunatics under control.
A reckless charge of "God Damned Heresy" is at least the religious equivalent of a racist's "N-word".
It is even more offensive (since we are told that some lovers call each other the "N-word"), it's as historically murderous (compare the number of former slaves murdered in this country to heretics worldwide), and with the obvious intention to bring down God's everlasting rebuke of those who take a different view of certain biblical texts.

I am here to request that such people be treated with forbearance and respect, especially in Free Republic's News/Activism forum.