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To: Mad Dawg; metmom
It is child's play tochange the understanding of cause so that somebody from one POV can criticize somebody using another meaning -- both off which are equally valid --to "correct" that other person.

I do not believe it is ever child's play to honor God by correctly attributing His works to Him correctly .or correctly honoring His attributes..

1,632 posted on 04/18/2011 12:13:10 PM PDT by RnMomof7 ( "But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden His face from you,)
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To: RnMomof7
i>I do not believe it is ever child's play to honor God by correctly attributing His works to Him correctly .or correctly honoring His attributes..

And if that's what you'd done, I wouldn't have called it sophistry. But, maybe through ellipsis or some other thing -- in any event not saying what you meant, both of these reek of sophistry.

I wonder if the diversity of humans and of loves is sufficiently acknowledged. To PRESUME to judge someone's devotion on how he answers, "Who/what is Jesus to you?" is, well, presumptuous IMHO. If I've just spoken for 45 minutes on the Trinity and the Hypostatic Union I might have an entirely different answer from what I'd have if I had been talking about the atonement.

The theological impossibility of an adequate statement beyond the reach of cavil on ANY important truth means that any short statement can be criticized -- while few will read a book long enough to be adequate.

Keep in mind
That IHS XP
Has died for us,
And is risen from the dead.
He is our saving Lord;
He is Joy for all ages.

If that's enough, why do we need a Bible? If it's not enough, can we ever have enough?

I recall, also, the little old ladies, mostly "charismatics" at a church I served who would come up to one and, as it were, shove a thermometer under one's tongue, take it out and decide if one was sufficient, all in a few minutes.

I tremble for their souls. The eagerness to judge is a problem.

1,642 posted on 04/18/2011 12:38:43 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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