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To: Hoosier-Daddy; Secret Agent Man; reaganaut; Elsie; All
We have alone a small time on this Earth. We have a much greater enemy to confront and is sure isn’t the LDS.

#1: Under this line of reasoning, nobody is EVER to confront anybody on the planet earth. Why? Because every single person "underranks" a more potent spiritual enemy. This is where contrast-&-comparison is downright dangerously deceptive.

#2: Hoosier-Daddy, have you ever read these Biblical passages referenced -- like Acts 20?

As the apostle Paul was leaving the church of Ephesus, he warned them with this high-priority alert:

"I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears." (Acts 20:29-31)

Paul's cultural priority? (Defend against specific false disciples who will proselytize the flock and draw away men unto themselves!)

Tell me something, H-D: If you did something tearfully night and day for three years, do you think it's rather important? So what? We're just to conclude, "Oh, the man who contributed a good chunk to the New Testament -- what does he know about cultural priorities?"

So tell you what, H-D. When you get to heaven, be sure to take apostle Paul aside & use his own writings to lecture him...Cite him Eph. 6:12 & tell him how "inconsistent" he was to confront those "savage wolves" when there was a wolf-of-wolves preying upon people (Your weak application of sentiment drawn from Eph. 6:12). After all, didn't Paul have a "greater enemy to confront" than those "savage wolves?"

...I felt compelled to write and urge you to CONTEND for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people. (Jude 3)

If you don't want to contend for the faith once delivered, then don't.
If you don't desire to "demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God" (2 Cor. 10:5), then don't.
Just stop your mild scolding of others who actually desire to flesh out those Biblical passages.

161 posted on 04/26/2016 1:45:55 PM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian
"demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God"

When shown their own religious organization's writings; the FR Mormon tend to get really quite.

162 posted on 04/26/2016 2:44:03 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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