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To: Belteshazzar

Why can’t you just answer the question of doctrine? Why do you think you have to make it a personal attack?


60 posted on 11/08/2011 10:03:53 AM PST by patlin ("Knowledge is a powerful source that is 2nd to none but God" ConstitutionallySpeaking 2011)
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To: patlin

I am not attacking you. You claim that I, whom you do not know any better than I know you, have disobeyed God, forsaken the covenant He made with Abraham, and sinned against Mosaic law. That is not a personal attack in your mind, apparently. OK. I am merely pointing you to God’s own words - not mine - to see if you understand them, if you dispute their meaning in any way. And then I ask then you consider whether they apply to you.

I have chosen only words from the Old Testament, since you have called into question my understanding of the New Testament ... something which, again, in your mind is not a personal attack. OK.

But tell me this, in the verses I asked you to look at, translate, interpret, and then simply apply to yourself, so I can see how it is done properly, what is wrong in this? Is God’s word simply empty, theoretical doctrine that we can bandy about generically, but has no application to the individual? Or is it directed at every human heart? Is it not speaking truth to every heart and telling each who it is who speaks to us, and demands of each of us - as God did of Job - who do you think you are before Me?

Now, if you just want to argue and call all Christians unfaithful and apostate, it seems to me that you yourself can be examined in the light of God’s truth to see how faithful and worthy you are. The words I put to you are not mine, they are God’s. Tell me I am wrong.

The result of this exchange - and feel free to put me on the spot with the same questions I ask of you - will reveal not only doctrine, but the thoughts of our hearts.


61 posted on 11/08/2011 10:36:26 AM PST by Belteshazzar (We are not justified by our works but by faith - De Jacob et vita beata 2 +Ambrose of Milan)
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