Some people just like to live in the past...
It's not "bashing" when holy warriors do it. They may get time off from Purgatory?
The trouble is all the strident effort to pay the rent (to all those it is not cared what they say or think) is it is being tendered in "notes" not recognizable as "legal for all debts public and private".
Red herrings, non-sequiturs, question begging, table pounding, all the "my [unsubstantiated] opinion is better than your [inconvenient to my argument] facts" are not exactly coin of the realm, but are more as forceful attempt to impose contract of agreement to assume past debt for all the free living-in-their-heads, rather than being cognizant argument which can convince (since it fails to "make a point", either rhetorically, or coin-shavingly, bankster derivative trader-wise) -- while the "free living" is claimed to go the other way.
Forms of reverse IOU (the YOU-OWE-ME) thingy, just are not cutting it. Maybe Faux-cahontas (she of the high cheekbones) will save us from these high pressure tactics engaged in selling this sort of [ahem] financial service?
And we *thought* loan sharking was bad...at least in that action a guy gets a little cash up-front, instead of have to right at first-- pay all, all the time ---with interest, to all the self-starter, contract carrying (you signed the contract you just don't remember signing it) debt-collector wannabe's who like to claim it's "all for the glory" of God.
Money talks, but what is it again that "walks"?
... And they say I can't get in, that I never will, no way Jose' (Jesus loves them, but he can't stand me?) unless I pay-pay-pay installments on what "they" say you and I already have signed? They say they hold exclusive distribution on Jesus Himself. His entire body.
You may now kiss the ring. Sounds like something Jesus would say?
I owe most these FRomans (with a few exceptions) nothing much, and I'll continue to live as free as God has told me directly that I am.
Two days in a row (years ago) as simple, plain, sort-of emotionally flat or neutral in 'tone', I heard the Spirit speaking small and quiet (but unmistakable -- that's Him(!)) say to me directly, quote-unquote "you are free".
I wondered at that...for I didn't "feel" so entirely free, but rather instead, stuck in rut of the mundane.
Yet one thing I've noticed about Him -- He is right, and always tells the truth (whether some things I want to hear or not) for when He speaks, His words do not pass away, leaving each of what He has said (in whichever form, written, or by the Spirit) be things one can chew on all their life.
I get the impression there are those would like to take that away from me. To better suit their own faith religion.
Sorry Charlie, I really would like to tell them (with a smirk). Bad tuna, no donut. Go write/sell the wolf tickets to somebody else. I'll just keep on living free.
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.--John 8:36
Paid in full, stamped so by The Son of God.
Some people just like to live in the past...