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To: Legatus

Read the bible


7,864 posted on 09/30/2010 1:26:35 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7; Mad Dawg; Dr. Eckleburg; 1000 silverlings; OLD REGGIE
It is becoming very difficult for me not to respond to you, and the other members of your particular whatever it is, in kind.

I wonder if that's what happened with Mad Dawg. If it is it's a crying shame.

I posted concerning the theologically orthodox understanding of person, nature and (very briefly) the external action of the Blessed Trinity... to which you responded "Read your Bible". That appears to be a denial of foundational Christian belief, I don't know if it is, but based on your other posts on those subjects I'm inclined to believe that's exactly what it is. It appears that "read your Bible" was supposed to be a refutation of classical Christian theology, it's not because studying the Sacred Scriptures is what produced those classical definitions. Accepting them is sort of critical to professing Christian belief.

Appearances seem to indicate that while you may believe in a Trinity, you do not believe in THE Trinity.

I'm not interested in gotcha-evangelism (or what Mad Dawg accurately calls sado-evangelism). I have even done that myself to OLD REGGIE on the issue of Elijah being assumed into Heaven. For that I am sorry. There's a good warning about being careful who you choose as an enemy because you will become like them. I don't want to become like... well, the public personas presented by the Calvinists in the forum. If that's what is being sold as the fruit of right belief then no thanks, not even thanks, just no.

Apropos of nothing, is it Jesus who makes people act like nasty, hectoring, booger flicking harpies? Harpy is such an interesting word... I wonder what Ferb would contribute on the subject.

To my co-religionists looking in:

Choose your enemies wisely; you will become just like them

I'm seeing some of that around here, and it worries me. We need to be very careful that we don't fall into the trap of treating "them" the way they treat "us". If someone behaves like an animal it's not our job to roll around in the sewage with them. Our job is to at all costs find a way to get them out of it. At the very least don't encourage them to wallow by feeding their beast within.

Which is probably what I'm doing right now. So I'll stop.

7,913 posted on 09/30/2010 3:02:38 PM PDT by Legatus (Keep calm and carry on)
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