Vanilla, a few weeks ago in a private e-mail exchange with His4Ever she explained her views on what happens when a homosexual becomes a Christian. They were outrageous and nonsensical enough that I could not respond.
His4Ever, do you realize that by refusing to address your mistake on page 6, you’ve just lost a large amount of credibility when it comes to any assertions you make about what the Bible says? Coupled with your habit of not responding when someone else cites other verses from the Bible in response to something you’ve said it says, you’re not coming off as particularly credible.
How can I say this without sounding condescending? I realize that critical thinking doesn’t come easily to everyone. I’m also very aware that this Board can make great intellectual demands on people, especially in Great Debates. That’s fair enough – the purpose of this Board is fighting ignorance. When you said Christ told the woman at the well to go and sin no more on page 6, when you asked if there wasn’t some alternative history in which modern day Protestantism didn’t grow out of Catholicism, when you repeatedly refuse to acknowledge that Mormons and Catholics are wrong, you demonstrate your own ignorance and, what’s worse on this Board, you refuse to do anything about it.
In my book, condemning people to Hell without taking the trouble to find out who and what they are is a form of bigotry. I know you say you don’t do it; the Bible does, but you’ve just demonstrated your ignorance of what the Bible says. Despite what you believe about what your Way is, it comes across only as hatred, condemnation, and blindness. Here are a couple more passages for you:
This took place immediately after Christ chastized the Pharisees in Matthew 15:6 by saying, “You have made God’s law null and void out of respect for your tradition. What hypocrisy!”
**Libertarian’s already cited the next few verses. You do the same when you say Catholics and Mormons are not Christians. I’ll also point out that right before this is a passage which a friend of mine who used to be a Fundamentalist says some Protestants used to justify their rejection of Catholic hierarchy, Matthew 23:9, “Do not call any man on earth, ‘father’ for you have one Father and he is in Heaven.”
By the way, His4Ever, do you realize that the verse you used for your last signature is one of the ones Catholics use to justify their belief in transsubstantiation?
CJ
