And you fail to get the point yet again. Big surprise. OK, let's try once more to see if we can sort this out...
I am fallible. It is the Word of God that is infallible.
Excellent. A nice, simple, straight answer. OK, all those in favor? Aye! Carried. Right, now we agree: you are fallible, God not so much. Let's even keep things simple by working with the axiom that the Bible is infallible also (I assume that's what you mean when you say "the Word of God"; I disagree, but I'm willing to agree for the sake of straightening out this particular point).
Quoting the Word of God is not blasphemy. If you really need to know more about blasphemy, you can open a thread about that.
Oh dear. You were doing so well, too. I never said quoting anything is blasphemy, nor do I want to get into a pointless wrangle about what is and isn't blasphemy. What I was objecting to was equating yourself with God; but you've now said quite clearly that you are not doing that. Great. The whole blasphemy thing is now irrelevant. That should have been obvious from my posts, demonstrating once again that you don't get it -- either you lack in perception or in honesty.
Now, back to the point at hand: what I said (quite clearly & more than once) was either you're fallible or not; if fallible, then... [well, let's just cut'n'paste since I've said it already]:
you are a mortal just like me, KCDAD, SS, etc etc, and just as likely to have gotten The Message wrong [therefore] there's no reason for us to believe that you're right and we're wrong, without external justification.
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where's the evidence that you -- fallible as you are -- didn't get God's Message all wrong? Why is that KCDAD and I are wrong, not you? The only way to demonstrate that is with external verification, logic, etc. You can't appeal to God or God's Message because that would be [begging the question]
So. Now that you've stated clearly that you are indeed fallible, please answer these questions. To make it even clearer, if I can...
You =/= God's Word, right? (This must be true since you are fallible, but God's Word is not.) So how do you know what God's Word is/says?
Somehow, God's words have to get from God to you. How can you be certain that an error has not occurred, when you are involved, since you are -- by your own admission -- prone to error? Even if every other link in the chain is perfect by God's providence, once photons bounce off the words on the page of your Bible and enter your eyes, God's Message has entered an imperfect vessel. Thereafter, the possibility of corruption exists and that possibility is unavoidable. Indeed, if we have come to different conclusions, then we have direct evidence that corruption has occurred: at least one of us has screwed up. How can we determine who it is?
We can't use the Bible because that's the object under debate, which therefore will create circular logic if we try. The only way to know which of us got things wrong is to use some form of external verification. If you reject this ("you only oppose the Word of God with your human philosophy") then there is
NO POINT to your "preaching the Word of God"; you may as well tell me to believe in the Invisible Pink Unicorn because you have supersecretspecial knowledge of the Truth of the IPU that I don't have.
To put it one final way: the situation is symmetric. We both read the Bible and one of us says X but the other says Y. Which is which? Who's right? If the person who said X says "but X is true because the Bible says so", why can't that exact same argument be used by the person who said Y? Again, the only way out is to use something more than reading the Bible. Like logic. But you reject this: "you only oppose the Word of God with your human philosophy", so your arguments are completely worthless.
Furthermore, given your inability to read and comprehend the posts here, or to grasp meanings that others are perfectly capable of grasping, I have very little reason to believe that you are capable of extracting the correct meaning from the Bible where I am not. So again, why should I believe what you say about the Bible? (And if you were actually able to understand, but chose not to, then you're dishonest, so again I should ignore what you say.)
Until you can answer this, you are not "powerfully preaching the Word of God", you are just a resounding gong and a clanging cymbal.
