If you are not capable of defending the faith of Christ risen without being "driven nuts," then the fault, Horatio, lies with your argument.
God-given understanding of His word and will by the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit brings clarity, peace, strength and joy.
It's not at all about that ability, it's a statement of the motives of those who raise arguments for the purpose of "driving them nuts." Whether it meets with success or failure, and in either event, the attempt is pathetic.
So God struck Bar-Jesus blind because Paul had a bad argument?
As I said, you never disappoint.
Well put.
However, as the likely target of that broadside of MD’s,
I’ll state the realities within me from my perspective.
1. I always post as a component of an interaction, preferably a dialogue of some substance AND some emotional intensity. I’m not real fond of 95% asleep shallow exchanges, . . . at least I’m not—MOST of the time.
2. I have no goal of upsetting or driving nuts per se. I suppose it depends on one’s definitions.
3. I do frequently have as a 2nd or 3rd or some such goal . . . to say things in a way that provokes though—hopefully deeper than usual thought—that usually means that one needs to hook some emotional connection with the content in order to trigger deeper and longer than usual thought. I’m fairly brazenly given to persistently writing with that in mind. Actually, it’s probably virtually an automatic habit, now.
4. I do frequently post similarly because emotional intensity with the content tends to make a comment more memorable—afford, in a sense, an ‘easier’ time for Holy Spirit to make fruit frm the comment because there’s a longer half-life to it.
5. There is a part of me at times . . . that I confess does enjoy responding to an emotionally intense or outrageous RC comment/statement in a way that is startling, novel, unexpected . . . maybe even tweaky intellectually. That’s much more fun than saying something that would most likely foster the wonderful fruit of a near dead yawn. If I’m going to bother commenting, I’d rather not comment in a way that puts folks deeper into a comotose state.
LOL.