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Reading the mind of another Freeper is a form of “making it personal.”

Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.

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Count your Change wasn’t defending private judgment in his comment to metmom? Should I post the entire reply? It read that way to me, it wasn’t Catholic.

I then posted private judgment is not contained in the gifts listed in 1 Cor 12:10. I asked...list which gift please. CYC replied with the gift of the discernment of spirits.

So, we’ve been discussing.

Have you missed the personal attacks on Catholics here?
There’s a snide one in almost every post.

Have you missed the personal attacks on Catholics here? There’s a snide one in almost every post.

You don't understand!

It's not personal or mind-reading when Metmom points to me and says Catholics don't know Scripture, because she's talking about ALL Catholics!

Now don't you feel better?

Here's what I replied to MM.

“It is noteworthy that one of the gifts of the spirit Paul listed was the ability of some individuals in the congregations to distinguish between true and false writings. (1 Cor, 12:10)
Thus something like the gospel accounts might be accepted as part of the Bible canon immediately as they were quickly circulated while other writings like Jude's might take far longer but it through the operation of God's spirit that the cnon(canon) was set not the imprimatur of councils.

This same spirit of discernment would weed many false writings such the numerous pseudo-gospels and frauds such as The Infancy Gospels of James or Thomas.

With John's writings we have the completed canon to compare anything that purports to be scripture with and so that special gift of discernment is no longer needed as Paul foretold. (1 Cor. 13:8-13)”

I choose my words carefully so I only mean what I say and I've made a case for gifts of discernment by virtue of God's holy spirit of what claims inspiration (spirits) or truth.

If you had said "I believe you want" or "It seems you want" you would be expressing your own mind and not reading the mind of another Freeper.

Also, for a statement to be "making it personal" it must be speaking of another Freeper, personally - not as a group.

Finally, the Religion Forum guideline is that when one Freeper in a sidebar has been warned, all Freepers involved in the sidebar should consider themselves warned as well.