Originally posted by lambslove
Is it ever okay to disagree with the way someone has interpretted scripture in this forum, or it is for agreement only?
What happens if someone disagrees?
There have been a couple times when I disagreed with someone, in the most polite way I thought, and it turned into ugly PMs with name-calling. It is going to be that in this Forum, we must display our nice faces, but PM each other the nasty grams?
Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote the most wonderful poem about the way Christians sometimes treat each other. It's called The Mask:
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, -
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be overwise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them see only us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
My point is this. While no debating should be done here, we shouldn't have to wear our masks here either.