I started out responding to your last post, and decided there’s no use. You’ve got me pegged as a heretic and are treating me like one too. It’s ok for you to be offensive, but cry foul when someone throws something back at you. I apologized to you for being out of line. At least I was man enough, so to speak, to do that.
You posted so many words you don’t even know exactly what you posted. You tell me you didn’t say this or that, when you did. I don’t feel the need to perpetuate a discussion with someone who’s not willing to admit they said something.
You denied many things you did say. You go right ahead and pounce on the next person, you seem to get some sort of charge out of it. You presumed many things about me, you don’t even know me, but yet you have the audacity to tell me what I’m thinking and feeling. It’s a losing battle talking to you....you’re right and everyone else is wrong. How can everyone else be wrong? You misconstrue what’s being said to your own bend.
I have tried being what Christ wants me to be with you, but I’m no saint. First, you insult my intelligence by insinuating I don’t know this verse or that verse. I don’t have them all memorized. Yes, I do read the Bible. You are gonna believe what your church says to believe. I am going to believe what the Bible says. I did deal with verses that were posted, it just suits your purpose to say I didn’t.
I am willing to admit when I’m wrong, you are not. I know, because your never wrong, right? All you’ve said to me is “no, NO, wrong. You responded with a sanctimonious attitude, that is a turn-off for a christian, just think about that lost soul you’re winning to Christ.
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
I only jumped into this puddle because I’d seen Baldwins’ work as a Christian, and I thought Inspector Clouseau,I mean Claveau, was supremely grandiose in his thinking that Baldwin would care one way or the other about what he thought. So I’ve watched and read over 375 posts and it’s still the same deal when I left the Roman Catholic church. This institution believes it is the only way to Heaven(entry only through the auspices of the holy father and his band of not-so-merry men) The supreme arrogance of this stance is despicable, and spiritually treacherous! They say the Protestants are all wrong,but they have many sects themselves(Jesuits,Benedictines,and more)They’ve hidden their behaviours for centuries and now with so much power at their backs,try to tell us that we’re mistaken! I’m thinking that the Protestant Reformation happened precisely because whatever truth the early church had was being clandestinely crushed at every turn. The Popes were corrupt,as well as their underlings(selling indulgences and spots in heaven to the unsuspectimg parishoners, so the Holy Spirit left this corruption and touched others who would carry the message of Jesus,the Saviour of the World. And so for centuries the factions of faith fought over the mantle of the birthright(much as Jacob and Esau)...so today we are still doing the same battle,but I don’t think this is what Paul had in mind when he exhorted us to contend for the Faith. The only truth to be told is that Christ died for our sins,once and for all,and we are to carry this message to the lost on this earth! Pray God be merciful toward us!
You wrote:
“I started out responding to your last post, and decided there’s no use.”
You haven’t been doing much to respond thus far anyway.
“You’ve got me pegged as a heretic and are treating me like one too.”
There you go making things up again.
“It’s ok for you to be offensive, but cry foul when someone throws something back at you. I apologized to you for being out of line. At least I was man enough, so to speak, to do that.”
I had nothing to apologize for. You went way overboard with that “certifiable” nonsense and that was far from the only thing.
“You posted so many words you don’t even know exactly what you posted.”
Actually I do know what I posted. I know it well enough that I told you what posts had what in it that you ignored or simply pretended didn’t exist.
“You tell me you didn’t say this or that, when you did.”
Wrong.
“I don’t feel the need to perpetuate a discussion with someone who’s not willing to admit they said something.”
Look, you’re the one not willing to admit some things.
“You denied many things you did say.”
No. I never once denied anything I said. You keep making up this stuff as if it is true!
“You go right ahead and pounce on the next person, you seem to get some sort of charge out of it. You presumed many things about me, you don’t even know me, but yet you have the audacity to tell me what I’m thinking and feeling.”
Feeling, not thinking.
“It’s a losing battle talking to you....you’re right and everyone else is wrong.”
No. Catholics are right, not everyone is Catholic and not everyone is wrong.
“How can everyone else be wrong?”
Again, I never said they were. This is yet another example of you just making thing sup out of thin air.
“You misconstrue what’s being said to your own bend.”
No. YOU misconstrue things. You didn’t know the difference between faith (as in personal trust in Jesus) and Faith (the Christian faith). It was you who miscontrued that, not me.
“I have tried being what Christ wants me to be with you, but I’m no saint. First, you insult my intelligence by insinuating I don’t know this verse or that verse.”
And how would you describe the fact that you didn’t know about those verses? Also, it isn’t about your intelligence. It’s about your knowledge of scripture. There you go miscontruing one thing for another. Someone could be a genius and known nothing about scripture. While others can know scripture well and have little intelligence.
“I don’t have them all memorized. Yes, I do read the Bible. You are gonna believe what your church says to believe.”
I used Bible verses - and you couldn’t respond. Why do you keep claiming something else?
“I am going to believe what the Bible says. I did deal with verses that were posted, it just suits your purpose to say I didn’t.”
No, you didn’t deal with them. Show me the post where you dealt with Mark 16:16, or Acts 22:16 or Romans 6:3. Did you ever even touch them?
“I am willing to admit when I’m wrong, you are not.”
I haven’t been wrong in this thread so there’s nothing to admit.
“I know, because your never wrong, right?”
No, I am sometimes wrong, but not in this thread.
“All you’ve said to me is “no, NO, wrong. You responded with a sanctimonious attitude, that is a turn-off for a christian, just think about that lost soul you’re winning to Christ.”
Look in the mirror. Think of what you just said whenever you want to call someone certifiable, or make bizarre anti-catholic claims based on nothing but your own fantasies. You remember your words when you decide to go off on a verbal bender at a Catholic about pedophilia so you can avoid talking about the actual topic at hand. You chose to get involved in this conversation completely unprepared. And then you came out with bizarre statements about you don’t want to read anything from the pope. Yeah, how terrible for you to actually learn something!