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WVKayaker:

See Mrs. Don-o's #251 as to the "liar" claim. She is precisely correct in saying that you say things that are not true. She DID NOT claim the additional factor of moral turpitude necessary to a claim that you have lied.

I agree with her claim that much of what you say is not true but I believe that you, in good faith, do not recognize your own statements as untrue. You believe what you believe, for good or for ill. I don't really care what you THINK Scripture means. Your opinions are utterly irrelevant to my Faith and beliefs.

Elsewhere you have made the remarkable claim that I have some responsibility to argue ONLY from Scripture. I have no such responsibility to argue with you at all much less ONLY from Scripture. "Sola Scriptura" or Sola Gratia" or "Sola Fide" were the reformation standards set by Luther and I have no obligation whatsoever to submit to his non-existent authority or yours.

I believe that civility has everything to do with good manners and nothing to do with Rodney King. I frequent Free Republic because I seek POLITICAL fellowship with fellow conservatives and not to nannynag those who disagree with me or with the Catholic Faith or to be nannynagged by them.

There are secular political issues, some having religious dimensions and some not on which I seek victory. Catholics will not win on these issues on our own without the help of others who are not Catholic and they won't win without Catholics.

I get tired of lectures about civility from someone taking a "better than you are" attitude. Your complaints are indeed failing to impress me.

You can keep your screed because you begin from a tainted viewpoint, with allegiance to a cult. The FACT that Roman Catholicism directs you to ignore Scripture over their myth and fallacy, allowing apparitions and worship of someone besides God (don't give me the "we don't worship" junk), reveals everything about the cult. It bases itself in lies and error.

If you don't like to read my posts, don't bother to post to me! I did not start this conversation with you, and refuse to be bullied by some proselyte of evil. I believe that god has the Truth, not the roman Catholic cult, and I don't subscribe to Sola Scriptura. I subscribe to the leadings of God's Holy Spirit, and" I worship in Spirit and in Truth". I feel sorry that belonging to a group is the identity for which Roman Catholics depend. My God is much larger than that!

You need not bother to respond, as I really don't see anything but defense of a cult, which doesn't recognize Scripture as full authority... and you have made that perfectly clear!

2 Timothy 3: ... 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

It doesn't say "partially!

And, finally, i will give this wisdom from Paul...

Ephesians 6: 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

Amen!