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BTW,

I think the snootiness over

adiaphoron

trashed a lot of your graciousness in my eyes.

It’a pet peeve of mine . . . I strongly believe that rare words on public forums like this one need a definition in their first usage in a thread. Otherwise, it’s just a vain-glorious rather haughty kind of linguistic upsmanship to use them.

Then to make some sort of egregious emphasis about such a term as a measure of someone else’s knowledge or scholarship is wayyyyy over the top unnecessary and ostentaciously elitist.

What rubbish.

For those scratching their heads about the term:

n. (pl. -ra), matter of indifference; Theology, religious observance left to conscience; amoral matter. adiaphorism, n. belief in doctrine of adiaphora. adiaphorist, n. adiaphoristic, adj. applied to certain controversies on religious observances. adiaphorous, adj. neutral; indifferent, neither right nor wrong (of conduct, etc.)

Many of us hereon do NOT PRETEND to be Bible scholars in any formal sense of the word.

Some of us have read a lot. Some, like me, have taken several courses at a Bible school or college. Some have not done that.

Many have read their Bibles prayerfully daily for years. Holy Spirit has given them vast insights into the truths of Scripture.

I’ll take farmer Joe’s insights from such a walk with God over a Harvard professor’s any day.

I think it’s wonderful that more formal Bible scholars and laymen like myself can be iron sharpening iron hereon.

Snooty flinging of rare terms about without their definitions is not admirable; not loving; not gracious.

Dear Quix, if you go back and read my posts, I explained the term several times. Besides which, I see you had no difficulty in finding a suitable definition. People look up the terms other people use all the time. I do. So, if you call my use of that term snootiness, haughty, linguistic upmanship, elitist ... I guess that is up to you. That is the term. What can I say?

You also wrote:
“Snooty flinging of rare terms about without their definitions is not admirable; not loving; not gracious.”

Dare I say that this is a subjective and rather emotional response ... one better, perhaps, said in another way.

You’re a smart guy. But you, like all the rest of us, don’t know everything. You seem to have little fear of wandering into areas of theology and history where, maybe, just maybe, there are some things you aren’t aware of. Sometimes these things have been pointed out to you, gently and graciously.

Think what you will. Do as you will.

Proof is in the pudding.

Ever notice how when one posts an article or commentary regarding a decent Bible study, how immediately out of the woodwork, every type of accusing vermin seem to appear?

It’s almost a barometer of how truthful the article really was, for the adversarial attacks to commence so abruptly and without any wisdom to encourage fellowship with God through faith in Christ.