[presently no screen name]

May God have mercy on you for driving people away from His Son because you prefer playing games to witnessing.
........ Ok, I’ll check for that name in the morning or some other time.

With a statement like that and you expect something? Out of the heart the mouth speaks and it's not looking good.

Quix - " But you, brothers, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. You are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled." And we are, Praise God!

"Therefore encourage each other with these words."

And that's exactly what you are doing Quix, what God's Word says to do....while 'man' condemns you for it. Nothing new under the sun.

[Rashputin]

Interesting selection from Thess. when Timothy is so often quoted here. You should be the one thinking long and hard on whether quoting a verse from the The Dead Sea Scrolls that can't be found is being deliberately baited into using something that is in error. Their source for the quote may well have been deliberately led astry by those who started such falsehoods by word of mouth before the web made it possible to do extensive checking on such things. Further, I don't understand why challenging those who stray from, But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife. And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition ..." can be interpreted as somehow assailing the Word, but go ahead, look at it any way you like. Accept that telling those who use insulting picutres and bold flashing text to mock others is a sincere obeying of His way of spreading the Word.

If you think rebuking someone for putting something secondary to the Gospel ahead of it is proof that the party rebuked is doing their good work as a disciple, then so be it. I suppose Timothy 2:23 only applies when you're talking to someone who agrees with you. Puff on up over being assailed by 'man' for quoting something deliberately intended to lead those who argue your side of the topic astray. I'm leaving this and the other regular wrestling matches to you.

[Quix]

Thanks for your kind reply.

BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD.
BLESSED BE THE WORD OF THE LORD.
PRAISE THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.