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To: Heart-Rest

Perhaps you could state your point plainly. If you have one...


831 posted on 08/29/2013 2:20:15 PM PDT by BlueDragon (forget about your past and all your sorrowThe future won't last, It will soon be over tomorrow)
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To: BlueDragon; metmom
"Perhaps you could state your point plainly. If you have one..."

BlueDragon, like I told you my earlier reply to you, you often have to know the context of a discussion in order to know what one particular post is about.    In order to do that, you have to work your way backwards, looking at the previous post that the post you're confused about is pointing to, then to the post pointed to before that (by the "To post#" shown on the bottom of each post), as far back as it takes until you can get the flavor and context of that discussion within a thread.

The post you were asking me about in your post #749 was my post #738 (addressed to "metmom"), and the backward chain went like this: Posts 738-734-727-714-712.

metmom understood my points, and I understood metmom's points.    We didn't always see eye-to-eye in all those posts, but we both clearly understood the points the other was making.

(In that particular discussion, we were talking about the Greek words used for "body" in various New Testament texts.    If you read those five posts, you should clearly know what all our points were as well.)

You also said in your post #749 that in another thread (from almost a month ago), I replied to one of your posts to me with a "freepmail, privately chewing you out over the issue being discussed".    I urge you to re-read that freepmail, as it was not sent to you because of that issue, but plainly was feedback in reference to the tactics you used in your post to me in that thread.

The Free Republic rules say that we can't carry over discussions from some old thread into a new thread, and I certainly won't.

However, I can make a more generalized statement to you here in this thread.

I believe that most Christian posters in this Religious Forum discussing our Christian faith and it's various viewpoints and beliefs, would strongly agree that they would not appreciate the equivalent of being called "stupid" and a "liar", all in the same post.

A far better rule of thumb for all of us to follow when posting on these Christian discussion threads would be the Godly instruction given here by Our Blessed Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ:

"So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them; for this is the law and the prophets."    Matthew 7:12
It would be a great principle for all us posters to follow in all our posts.
928 posted on 08/29/2013 9:40:48 PM PDT by Heart-Rest (Good reading ==> | ncregister.com | catholic.com | ewtn.com | newadvent.org |)
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