[Dr. Eckleburg]

Try attributing authorship to the writer of a work you’re lifting sentences and paragraphs from, like this one...

http://www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/TULIP.htm

(”The idea that a person can be predestined to come to God yet not be predestined to stay the course may be new to Calvinists and may sound strange to them, but it did not sound strange to Augustine, Aquinas, or even Luther. Calvinists frequently cite these men as “Calvinists before Calvin.” While they did hold high views of predestination, they did not draw Calvin’s inference that all who are ever saved are predestined to remain in grace.”)

Which is quite similar to your post 2700...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2657209/posts?page=2700#2700

(”The idea that a person can be predestined to come to God yet not be predestined to stay the course may be new to Calvinists and may sound strange to them, but it did not sound strange to Augustine, he did not draw Calvin’s inference that all who are ever saved are predestined to remain in grace.”)

As we all can see, all you did was delete a line in the middle of the paragraph.

Follow the rules. They benefit all of us.

[Cronos]

Actually, I’m not lifting sentences — so stop lying.

[Cronos]

how about some more OPC beliefs like this is from the OPC Q&A site

Never again will there be an outpouring of the Holy Spirit such as took place on the day of Pentecost.

The sending of the Holy Spirit is just as much an unrepeatable event as the birth of Christ was.

[boatbums]

You know, we all probably did something like this in school. Looked up something in the encyclopedia, and then said the same thing by moving a few words around or taking a few out, adding some in. We were lazy or incapable of creatively writing about the subject. How many wrote in their references then? As a former teacher, I saw it, I did in too myself a few times. Today, though, we can easily look up things on the Internet and copy and paste entire paragraphs or more, and the teachers are wise to that now and kids can't slip past them so easily anymore.

We're talking term papers, themes, etc., but there is no excuse for omitting such attributions today and anyone who tries to sound smarter than they really are by trying to pass off another's work for their own, is a thief and plagiarizer. Not to mention, in this day and age, possibly endangering this very site by exposing it to lawsuits for just the same behavior. If somebody has been warned, they have no excuse if they continue to do it and either they do not care - in which case they should be prohibited from continuing and their posts deleted - or they don't know how to create links. If that is the case, I am sure the Moderator or anyone else would be happy to teach them. Even if the HTML codes are not known, the least one should do is list the source. I hope this is a good lesson to the sneaks who falsely think they can slip it past everyone. Fat chance! Just do what's right!