An appeal for a new rule

[mva1985]

Nope. Just true. You can follow the reasoning of just about any Trad you can pick out of the herd. I've done it many times and it never fails. THEY ARE ALL THE SAME. It's like they are following a script or something. You would think they are reading straight out of Mark Finley's book Studying Together the way they string the same proof-texts in the same order, defending the same things in the same way.

http://www.itiswritten.com/store/products/studying_together

If you don't want people to have that perception (and many do), the way to avoid it is to think for yourselves and avoid parroting the party line along with the rest of the TSDA group.

But that will never happen, because, like I said in my thread which was deleted, Trads think they have 100% of already established truth and no deviancy from any of it will be tolerated in their group.

Yippy, sign me up for some of that!

Not.

I don't understand the reason to bash a book whose sole purpose is to help the individual study with people of different faiths.

 

[AndrewK788]

I don't understand the reason to bash a book whose sole purpose is to help the individual study with people of different faiths.

There isn't a good reason. However, in this particular case, I have read through that book and the ironic thing is there are several things Finley claims about other Protestant denominations that are supposedly false. I've numerous friends from Baptist, Methodist,and Lutheran churches and I would ask them something that I had read from this book and I would get that blank stare. They said they had never heard of it and as far as they knew their church never taught such a thing. Some of these are even pastors' kids! lol

I don't remember all the specific details, but I do know that having half a dozen of these incidents destroyed all my faith in the credibility of this book. Now it is either in the trash or collecting dust behind one of my bookshelves...I really don't know which.