If you are prepared to be offended, you will be.
“It is a non-sense argument to say, start from the Bible, but if you don't reach the same conclusions/beliefs I hold you cannot be a Christian or the "Spirit" is not working in your life.”
You seem to ascribe to me a belief in my own infallibility . . . in blatant defiance of my remarks relating to free will. You also seem to be looking to pick a fight. I could be wrong . . . I’m not infallible.
“Are we damned? Unloved?”
Not by me. I’ll leave that judgment to the Lord, per instructions (and keep in mind that being damned and being unloved are two different propositions).
“We have additional traditions that we accept; when the Bible contradicts beliefs and traditions which ones hold?”
You have free will. Do as you will. But, as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. To the best of my ability, as God gives me the light to know His Word.
“This seems only to apply to those that are already in agreement.”
Actually, it applies to those who are determined not to be in agreement. You’re reading what you expect to see in everything I say. All the reference aids in the world will do you no good if you are determined not to be in agreement. You might as well simply read and quote from Tom Paine’s Age of Reason and live your life as you see fit without recourse to anything but your own resources.
There. I’ve given you loads of opportunity to not understand what I am saying.
Have a blast.
Have a blast.
You have free will. Do as you will. But, as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. To the best of my ability, as God gives me the light to know His Word.
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INDEED.