"I think we should throw those books in a fire"

[rogue06]

He seems like the kind of guy you could have a knock-down-drag-out fight with and then go have a beer with afterwards.

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[Gondwanaland]

This little tag is always an indication that you're about to type something really stupid, not sarcastic.



Verily! Verily!



With regards to Gondy - I already said I was "poking" him, just like I do Sparko, Rogue, and others I like. Do you REALLY think I was serious when I was mockingly "singing" the "Gondy and H_A up in a tree"? That's a silly little song that kids sing when they see somebody being cozy.

I think you're just jealous because I don't like you as much as I like them.

She may just be jealous because she knows she doesn't have actually a chance with me.

[Cow Poke]

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EGGzackly. I tried to get NRAJeff to understand that, because I liked him as an individual, but he was SO WRONG on all things Mormon!

(well, he was "so right" on what they believed, but SO WRONG)

[rogue06]

He does, which means, currently, it's not.

I think a major difference is that we don't "recite" the BF&M, nor do we require anybody to "hold to it" or to "subscribe" to it. It's a body of work that attempts to define who we are.

I'd bet the vast majority of Southern Baptists don't even know what's in it.

Not exactly even a catechism

[Cow Poke]

Not exactly even a catechism

When somebody expresses interest in joining our Church, I give them a copy of the BF&M (in pamphlet form) and ask them to read it - then I ask them to let me know if there was anything with which they substantially disagreed. I do not ask them "do you agree with all of it", or ask them to sign a copy.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

No formally organised church that I know of accepts the raw Biblical statements regarding the nature of Logos and his relationship to the Father.
The creed of 325 in itself does not conflict with the raw Biblical information, the later creeds do.

As I have observed in previous exchanges with you on other another thread, you exhibit a tendency towards Gnostic ideas. Hence your reference to various periphrastic verses in John and other NT writings come as no surprise.

[tabibito]

As I have observed in previous exchanges with you on other another thread, you exhibit a tendency towards Gnostic ideas. Hence your reference to various periphrastic verses in John and other NT writings come as no surprise.

And it comes as no surprise to me that you think you know more about my beliefs than I do - so be it.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

And it comes as no surprise to me that you think you know more about my beliefs than I do - so be it.

I am simply commenting on what you have written.

[rogue06]

I am simply commenting on what you have written.

Lessee, at this point you would be muttering something about mind reading

[tabibito]

I am simply commenting on what you have written.

No-one who was commenting on what I have written would deem my comments to reflect gnosticism. Maybe Pelagianism or Asceticism on occasion, but not gnosticism.

[CivilDiscourse]

I am simply commenting on what you have written.

As others have noted, you tend to use the same tactics you criticize others for.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

No-one who was commenting on what I have written would deem my comments to reflect gnosticism. Maybe Pelagianism or Asceticism on occasion, but not gnosticism.

No one else has commented on your remarks made in another thread.

I'd also point out that for many Christians Pelagianism is deemed heretical.

[tabibito]

No one else has commented on your remarks made in another thread.

I'd also point out that for many Christians Pelagianism is deemed heretical.

Which is known and understood. I can be mistaken for Pelagian. Where the speaker knows the difference between straw-man Pelagius and the real Pelagius, I need do no more than stipulate, "but not straw-man Pelagius." I have also been thought of as Arian, which, given that I acknowledge that Arius was not wrong on every point, is forgivable. That takes a bit more explaining.

[CivilDiscourse]

No one else has commented on your remarks made in another thread.

I'd also point out that for many Christians Pelagianism is deemed heretical.

I'd also point out that for many christians, being a lesbian is an abomination, what's your point?

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

Which is known and understood. I can be mistaken for Pelagian. Where the speaker knows the difference between straw-man Pelagius and the real Pelagius, I need do no more than stipulate, "but not straw-man Pelagius." I have also been thought of as Arian, which, given that I acknowledge that Arius was not wrong on every point, is forgivable. That takes a bit more explaining.

Be grateful you are not living a few centuries ago. You would have been burned for heresy.