hey i'm tim. i have been on again off again attending a bible study. i do have a chip. i kinda don't have a filter, i am not successful, i don't have wife, children, job, drivers license, but i do have too much respect for myself. i'm kinda cocky. i don't like this particular bible study, here in my hometown, these guys have not read much. my beSt friend is ABD, LIBERTY university , Christian apologetics, and he can't get me on much, so i think. so i go to this bible study, i got kicked out of liberty for saying cuss words on the phone with admissions people, and walking their campus at, like after midnight one Christmas in 2011. ok, im rambling, here goes, so , a guy says, "spare the rod and spoil the child'. and it was not too testy yet. and i replied, those words , are not in the bible, it is a modern day parable, and i did not add, proverbs is proverbial and psalms are pslams. and he replied, "it is in my bible". i said the theme is, but it's not, not "those words". and it got crazy. i ended up telling them all, they were not , the s word. and i walked out. i will not be back, they are chickens. all have , are married, some twice, and 2 are drunks, i'm an ex-problemed drinker. i love debate, and i don't mind fighting. i don't even go to my sunday school, too political for my liking. clickish and chicken, don't want to be seen uptown , talking to the wrong kind of people, people. i know, as a xtian, i got to know people ain't perfect, just like me. and i know i ain't the smartest person in the world, Jesus was, not solomon. but, i just don't care to fit in. now i have misfit friends like me, that i don't have many problems with, it's these modern day fake xtians i can't stand. maybe, if i spot it, i got "it". thanks for letting me share. im not unique, i know they is a few billion Chinese that don't give one. but to sit in a sunday school class, that the teacher, intimates, that david at worst might have been a bisexual, it just drives me nuts, i can't let it go!!!!!!
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Welcome to CF. I hope you find this an edifying place to be. Just a note ... debates (even heated ones) are allowed in many places, but be careful not to attack the PERSON of another member as it could be consider flaming and get you banned. You are always free to disagree with ideas though (at least according to subforum rules ... Catholics aren't supposed to go into the Baptist forum and bash their beliefs, and vice-versa, if you see what I mean). Most forums have a "statement of Purpose" stickied at the top that outlines "local rules" but just to get you started, General Theology allows debates and much of it is there.
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If you will permit me one question, and forgive me if I offend but I would ask ... have you thought about whether it was worth it spiritually, to be "technically correct" in terms of the effect on your relationship with others and how it affects you (being "cocky")?
God be with you.
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i kinda think it is spiritually important to stand up for the bible. in one of the few things called an abomination in the bible, to just sit there like a bump on a log, while a teacher, who is not very learned in the bible, defames one of God's men, yeah, i aint going to let that happen. maybe you need some more spirit. don't know. have you ever thought about that?
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Oh okay. I believe I am not being called for that. That must be your calling. I commend you for doing that.
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