Then you assumed a point not backed by fact.
Appaches 3:8 Yet of the Daughter we hear "Thy steed, oh Unicorn, is long, and mighty the book of your city"
Whatever
It makes you look scholarly, doesn't it?
That "load of nonsense," as you call it, is also called "the strong nuclear force."
No, personally I don't believe in calling alternative doctrines "heresies" unless I'm on my high horse about being denounced as a "Bible-hating, Christ denying commie" or some such for not believing in them. Whatever floats your boat is my motto, unless you want to make political issue out of it.
Did someone do that directly? or is that one of your Yup-Youre-A-YEC moments?
Frequently, when I lived in the Bible Belt. It happens fairly often in this forum, too, but the Mods are quick to stamp it out. As to YECs, I think it is pretty obvious that they regard themselves as the only "real" Christians.
What happened?
What I objected to mostly was my kids being bullied in (public) school by their teachers about what we didn't believe. But I was in those days younger and more formidable character (and known to own guns) so I soon put a stop to that. I was machinist then and I got a job in a machine shop by agreeing with the boss that I was a Christian--when he found out that I was an Anglican he fired me for lying to him. So mostly I tried to mind my own business about it and so no rocks through my window or slashed tires, though that kind of thing happened, as well as some more awful things. Where we lived, for example, it was considered good sport to set dogs on Jehovah's Witness canvassers an some were severely injured, but the Sheriff wouldn't take a report because he belonged to the same church whose Pastor encouraged that kind of thing. At least they no longer strung up random black men for fun, though it was still open season on gays.
So what do you think when you see the scholarly here doing just that to us?
You are an adult, you come here voluntarily and there are moderators who keep it from getting too abusive. There are no children being sent away in tears when their public school teachers tell them that they belong to Godless cults because they are non-creationist Christians.
I think that if you don't feel that your doctrine is being given the respect which it deserves you can defend it, complain to the moderators about it or just leave. A child in the public schools hasn't those options. Even so, no one here is being "bullied." Merely giving our opinions in a public forum is not it.
I suppose you're right.
They're not "going after" a literal interpretation of the Bible, they just don't care about it unless they get their noses rubbed in it. It's nothing but the eccentric notion of some minority Protestant sects that nobody else really cares about or has much respect for and if you kept it to yourselves nobody would trouble to bother you about it. If creationist Evangelicals want to be taken seriously, perhaps they should return to preaching the Gospel of Christ rather than the doctrine of literal inerrancy.
There is no such thing as natural alcohol-free grape juice. Wine is nothing but fermented grape juice and the fermentation process begins as soon as the fruit is so much as bruised. If you want to make alcohol-free grape juice you have to remove the alcohol naturally present and pasteurize or refrigerate the result. Nobody in biblical times did that.
