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Well, I'm not done with you, not just yet.

I am unlikely to be done with you as long as you persist in making accusations about me (for example: Stop making this about me.) which I do not understand and consequently can neither refute or accept. How is attempting to rebut a point you made 'making it about' you?

The power of the WORD has indeed done what it was sent to do.

And one thing it was sent to do was to point out and to divide rightly not only Scripture but our own words and those of others.

You, whether intentionally or not, posted something that is false. The argument you based on it was questionable. That is indisputable. AND it is not a remark about whether you were lying. It IS a remark that you did not speak the truth, that's all. Nobody knows everything, we all make mistakes

EXCEPT that, in general and as a general observation when some who cares about truth is discovered to have made an error, one would expect their concern for the truth to conquer their pride and to lead them to express gratitude for (or, at the least, acknowledgment of) having the error pointed out.

And then, in an equitable conversation the argument based on the error would be retracted or revised.

I would NOT expect from someone concerned about the truth that pointing out an error would be met with hostility and triumphal condemnation.

However, I am now thinking that some Sola Scriptura adherents do not rely on real arguments from Scripture but rather from over-wrought rhetoric which, they expect, will win assent from the good. So when they do not persuade someone, it is, in their minds, not their own fault, but the fault of the person who was not convinced by their impassioned but irrational speech.

And so persistence in disagreement, however politely it is expressed or argued, is for these people an excuse for name-calling and rejection, rather than a call to search more deeply not only for the truth but also for a way to express it better.

This may not be the right explanation of the attitude, but it certainly explains some of the exchanges here.

2,045 posted on 07/12/2010 12:46:27 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (O Maria, sine labe concepta, ora pro nobis qui ad te confugimus.)
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