Linda Lee wrote:
> Being 'known by the company we keep' is in reference to hanging out
> with people with whom we are in *agreement*.
>
> Ha satan is a lot of work, and you're free not to debate him or read
> his posts, but this is a *debate forum*, and Suzanne is not in
> agreement with him, she is debating him. If we all agreed, there'd be
> no debate, and it would get pretty boring. He is going to post whether
> Suzanne replies to him or not, so she is not perpetuating anything.
> She is simply offering her own view.
>
> And it's not up to us to decide who's a "throw back" i.e. beyond
> salvation. I hope that's not how you see people in the real world who
> don't hold your own views. Only God knows the heart of men; our
> outward behavior reveals very little to other people because men have
> little understanding of what has formed others or what might cause
> them to act as they do.
Dear Linda, that is very true.
in fact, recently i have had quite a change of heart about my attitude
concerning my approach to the discussions and how nine times out of
ten they ended up being emotional and nasty.
Looking back i see that my antagonist approach was often stupid to say
the least.
i hope you will forgive me for the nasty things i said to you.
concerning Christianity, i think that i have made some very wrong
judgments and these were based on bitterness toward "fundamentalism"
-- which i still see as an unhealthy way to interpret the Bible.
nonetheless my attitude toward Christianity has changed and become
more balanced. There is something bigger to the picture i have
discovered.
i cannot elaborate.
let me leave you with these words,
i am sincerely sorry for my foolish words in these discussions and
immature manner.
i no longer look at these things in the same way and see good
possibilities for some interpretations of Christianity.
life is a process and i am no exception.
Be well and enjoy.
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