Conclusion from Peru and Mexico

email from Randall Easter | 25 January 2008 | Randall Easter

[Running On Empty]

I want to thank you for this post and your previous one on this thread, which I believe are examples of an authentic Christian approach to these kind of “discussions”.

I have noticed in the past that you have shown this attitude and I commend you for it. You provide a light in the darkness.

[papertyger]

What kind of guppy gobbler are you?

Don’t you know the Catholic Church came up with the Creeds so they wouldn’t have to let the illiterate peasants read the Bible ;o)

[papertyger]

sorry, my mistake.

[Gamecock]

**Such a relief, eh, Gamecock? 8~)**

Only in that I thought that I had missed something. I didn’t think that I saw you paperwork over at Calvinist Swarm Central.

[papertyger]

Any church that adheres to the Bible cannot go too far astray.

How can it go astray at all?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

The OPC uses the Westminster Confession of Faith of 1646 with minor changes, one of them being to delete the word, "anti-Christ."

However, the OPC still publishes the complete 1646 version and there is nothing in its by-laws that forbids the use of the earliest Confession.

I and many others prefer its clarity. But in no way does it effect one's salvation, one's membership in Christ's church, or in our Scriptural understanding of God's purpose in our lives.

Here's a quick run-down of the American revisions to the original English/Scottish Westminster Confession for anyone who's interested. (Remember we Americans are an ecumenical bunch, even sometimes to the detriment of the truth.)

WESTMINSTER CONFESSION OF FAITH

And Mark, I am just thrilled you continue to show such interest in the WCF which, IMO, is second only to the Bible and then Calvin's Institutes as the finest reiteration of God's will and word ever written.

Keep reading it. And please remember that salvation isn't in the letter of the law, or in punctuation or syntax, but in God's mercy alone. The WCF doesn't save anyone. Christ alone saves the fallen sinner.

[papertyger]

Ask MarkBsnr.

He's not the one that said

I'd much rather be silly than blasphemously believe the Word of God only gains effectiveness with approval of man.

YOU are...

[the_conscience]

riiiight.

Then I pointed you to the one “dopey enough”.

Sorry, I thought the inference was clear. my bad.

[papertyger]

Then I pointed you to the one “dopey enough”.

No, see I KNOW he's not dopey enough to believe that, so I'm wondering who'd think he did.

[Mad Dawg]

There's an additional behavior or characteristic for the diagnostic list. It's exemplified here with the unsubstantiated identification of "the authority of the Church" with "approval of men".

A lot of PD sufferers can't deal with distinctions and nuance. A few months back a Catholic was upset because I was explaining sin, penance, and purgation by comparing it to injury and physical therapy. She couldn't wrap her mind around the concept of an unofficial comparison shedding light on official doctrine. Too subtle.

In general unanticipated distinctions are derided as "parsing", nit-picking, and "logic-chopping". Outside this forum I've encountered narcissistic PD victims who cannot tolerate and get abusive in the face of a distinction they didn't think of first.

Here the concept of the one, holy, universal, and chosen as Christ 's body, representative, and agent to the world assembly of God being as Spirit-Filled as the Bible is not only one with which there is disagreement (fair enough) but one which is simply inconceivable to the S-E/STS sufferers.

[the_conscience]

who’d think he did what?

[Manfred the Wonder Dawg]

For clarification: please, what are “PD sufferers”?

[Quix]

Thanks for reminding me . . . about having to add one to the growing list of attributes I’m seen to have by some . . .

—apostate
—on another world
—committed to an asylum
—a sodomite
—a friend of dogs with fleas
—having only a passing interest in the [UN]rubberized Bible
—psychopathology
—self-delusional mind
—psychopath

All wonderful examples of archetypal Marion EARTH MOTHER’s warmth and charity brought graciously to my attention by the kind ministrations of the RC magicsterical reps hereon.

Thanks indeed. The points do add up bit by bit!

And in addition—the mirth provided—what a bonus!

[papertyger]

You know, I can’t wait till you publish for peer review, but I don’t think your paper will be well received by the general freepulation.

[Quix]

Should be interesting to see the answer.

Could take one of two likely choices . . . will see if the FREEPMAILED one gets owned.

But then, you could check the list of my purported attributes out just above.

[Gamecock]

....sodomite?

[Quix]

I’m still a bit puzzled how anyone came to that conclusion.

LOL.

Maybe it was projection. I don’t even recall who the poster was on any of them except the last one . . . which was by FREEPMAIL.

Thankfully, I’m rather . . . extremely celebate! LOL.

However, once the mirth dies down . . . the judgments are sobering business. Folks seem to generally fail to realize the hazards they call down on themselves for unfitting, flesh-driven, critical judgments. Very sobering.

[papertyger]

S-E paranoia?

[Manfred the Wonder Dawg]

In virtually any other context, I would presume “PD sufferers” to mean those Christians who have suffered in a church infected by the “Purpose Driven” cancer.

[the_conscience]

***archetypal Marion EARTH MOTHER***

Excellent discription. Spot on.