[Terabitten]

The fact that we have the intellectual freedom to disagree with each other and challenge each other’s beliefs proves that we are not like our “enemy”.

Disagreement is one thing. Disrespect is another. Christians are free to disagree, as Paul says in Romans, but we're not free to be disrespectful or, as is so often the case here, downright mean to our Christian brethren.

[MrB]

Thread highjack alert.

I’m doing some “self-opposition research”. Since this is a Catholic thread, and bound to have a few Catholic readers, I ask -

is there any biblical justification for the assertion that man’s nature is “basically good”?

I have had a few Catholics (and Unitarian Universalist / Church of Oprah adherents) state that that is their view of the nature of man.

It has huge consequences... mainly “liberalism”.