Giovanna, Roamer,
It appears that the folks from the Rabid
Preterist/REPLACEMENTARIAN sorts of camps are getting
.
. . . desperate.
Reporting other folks' personal convictions about Biblical truth
is an SOMEWHAT humorous and interesting new habit to observe hereon.
. . . mildly interesting . . . to a point.
It appears yet again that . . .
some words in the rules must be extremely difficult for some such rabid REPLACEMENTARIANS et al to comprehend.
Or MAYBE
Do you think they might just define "ABUSE" as anything which annoys their thin-skinned sensibilities or anything which disagrees with their perverse twistings of Scripture and history???
Perhaps, Roamer_1, or GiovannaNicoletta, you could help me understand which of the following words the thin-skinned folks are finding hard to comprehend (from the RM's homepage):
"Thin-skinned posters will be booted from open threads because in the town square, they are the disrupters."
Or MAYBE it's not a comprehension problem.
PERHAPS they are beginning to get the drift--maybe on a subconscious level--that the END TIMES Dispys speak of
REALLY ARE LOOMING ON THE VERY NEAR HORIZON.
Sooooooooooooooooooooooo,
such REPLACEMENTARIANS ET AL--
OTHERWISE, they might have to confront an extremely uncomfortable, terrifying paradigm shift . . . perhaps the
THAT WOULD BE
A very traumatic realization.
There they are, tripping along through life normally . . . spreading black REPLACEMENTARIAN daisies wherever they go . . . smugly confident in their life-long delusions about being 110% correct in all things . . .
and suddenly
week after week, month after month
it begins to dawn on some sheltered synapses in some dark recesses of their noggins
that they not only MIGHT WELL BE
!WRONG!
for the purportedly FIRST TIME IN THEIR LIVES!
But that they might be horribly, dangerously, devastatingly !WRONG!
I can imagine pulling out all the stops to block such encroaching insights, too. What a frightful shock such must be! . . . even on an unconscious level.
I guess it's better than cowering in a corner, catatonic, for hours or days on end.
Though, not better spiritually or theologically.
I wish there were more effective ways to help such poor souls wake up and smell the looming fire and brimstone before some brimstone starts making splashes in their Mint Julips.
If you think of anything, please let me know. Perhaps we could come up with a crash-cart to administer aid to such traumatized REPLACEMENTARIANS.
Go poke a sleeping bear with a stick and see what happens.