I think it's well known and understood that the computer chip analogy was a GENERIC ANALOGY.
All of us have greater or lesser understandings about this or that specific about Christianity. I normally don't consider that a big deal.
Oh, I have the capacity to stamp my feet, throw dust in the air and MAKE A BIG DEAL about all kinds of things in Christianity and all kinds of 'angels dancing on pin-head' issues. Doesn't seem fruitful to me.
I haven't been overwhelmingly aware of word choices or attitudes which connoted to me an earnest desire to understand my position.
I may not be wise. But I wasn't born yesterday, either.
That's not thinking the best of me. Insofar as I understand your position, it seems gnostic to me. I have explained why I think that, back in post 797.
You think that "God tends to lift the anointing and give it to someone else". I explained (in 797) that one implication of your position is that we cannot determine who has the anointing, and therefore who are the rightful leaders in the Church. You don't agree that your position has this implication. But you cannot explain (at least so far as I have been able to tell) how we can determine who has the anointing. As best as I can tell, you determine who has the anointing by seeing who agrees with you (and your interpretation of Scripture). For if two people each claiming to have the anointing disagreed with each other, how else would you adjudicate between them?
-A8