You come back with this after calling me “unchristian”? I’m very able to have a civil conversation, but I’m not a doormat.
Okay, so let’s have that civil conversation. I did not call you a pharisee, I was being critical of you denigrating a fellow Cristian faith. I have little patience on here or anywhere else for Christians who disparage other Christians because they don’t approve of their theology, especially when, as you probably know, there is an international war on ALL Christians. I happen to have no acrimony towards anyone who believes in the Lord, even if I don’t agree with their theology or the manner in which they worship. I happen to have family members and friends who are Baptists (used to be one myself), Presbyterians, Lutherans,Pentecostals,and others, and fully respect them. This is how Islam spread in the 7th Century in places that were previously Christian, like Paul’s Damascus, for example, and all of Syria and much of Turkey. Eastern, Western and African Christians were waring with each other and could produce no unity to oppose it, and by the time of the Crusades in the 12th Century, it was too late. If there was ever a time for Christians to stand united it is certainly now. I also happen to believe that Christ wants us to love one another, especially if we proclaim that we believe in him. We can have disputes and arguments on here all day about theology, history, etc. and that is good. That is one of the things that makes Christianity dynamic. We don’t all have to agree with each other on everything, but we should respect and avoid denigrating each other. After all, we are all at peril in this postmodern world.