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Why aren't you qualified? Don't we have access to the same scriptures? Why does it have to be looked at as a debate?! Believe me, I don't have a perverse need to be right OR to prove you wrong. Our beliefs are shaped either by what we hear others say about the scriptures or by what the scriptures themselves say. Shouldn't we be concerned (any of us) if we find something in scripture that seems to undo any of our beliefs? I have literally questioned every belief that I hold for the purpose of making my faith my own and not borrowed from anyone else. I don't believe in lazy dogma. If you do nothing else but prove those scriptures right or wrong where YOUR own faith is concerned I will consider that a win. But please don't retreat because you think this is a battle, I want us to be on the same team. Please don't feel threatened IN ANY WAY by me.

But please don't retreat because you think this is a battle, I want us to be on the same team. Please don't feel threatened IN ANY WAY by me.

Jon.....I do not feel threatened. I am just not interested in trying to refute your interpretation of those scriptures.

Your opinion is apparently based on your own intense study of scriptures which is admirable. I am comfortable with my Faith and have no desire to enter into a dialogue over those scriptures or any others you might present.