Mired in a sea of subjectivism

[Gabriel]

The problem that I have with this thread is this; It was created as a means of sticking your cyber tongue out and blowing a rasberry at the Catholic people on this board. This is not meant to edify or convert or educate. Therefore it is sinful. Did Christ argue with people so? Sure He hollered at a couple people and told people truths that they didn't like. But He told them once and then He went on His way and let them go on theirs.

I suggest you folks do the same. We all know how we all feel and we all think we're the only ones who are right. We aren't changing each other's minds. We are sinful in our pride that drives us to continue this fight thinking that WE not HE will change others.

I have an idea. Prots. Cats., want to talk about something? I'll pick a subject. Abortion. 40 million plus murdered babies. Starvation: millions and millions of dead dead men, women, and children. Racism: Everybody does it.

Get a grip people!! This world has real problems!! Quit wasting your life fighting on a message board!

Disclaimer: I don't want one single PM claiming that I am selling out or standing in the way of truth. I'm not suggesting we agree OR accept one another's beliefs. I'm saying, do good works as commanded and stop be quarrelsome and childish. And if you are reading this thinking that I'm not talking to you, I probably am.

 

[InquisitorKind]

The problem that I have with this thread is this; It was created as a means of sticking your cyber tongue out and blowing a rasberry at the Catholic people on this board. This is not meant to edify or convert or educate. Get a grip people!! This world has real problems!! Quit wasting your life fighting on a message board!

Gabriel,

Abortion and starvation are real problems. But the argument being critiqued against an Evangelical distinction has caused many Christians to be deceived. And deception is a very real problem as well. Do you think it's not edifying to give an appropriate defense of important Evangelical doctrines that are under attack?

Many people stated that they appreciated the thread, one even stating that they were specifically helped in responding to such arguments by this thread. Even a Catholic stated, unsolicited, that he didn't mind what was being posted on it. Where were Catholic people being attacked? The whole thread was a defense of the Evangelical position, not an attack at members of the Catholic community.

I just don't know why you felt it was necessary to close this thread.

~Matt

 

[shomethadoor]

 

[A. believer]

We aren't changing each other's minds.

People's minds are being changed through these discussions on a regular basis. How can you have missed that?

 

[Dominus Fidelis]

People's minds are being changed through these discussions on a regular basis. How can you have missed that?

Can you provide some examples of this claim please?

 

[A. believer]

Can you provide some examples of this claim please?

Are you asking for names of people who've been persuaded to accept or reject either the Roman Catholic or the evangelical paradigm based at least partially upon what they perceive to be either the soundness of lack thereof of these kinds of arguments? Or those people whose thinking on these issues has been clarified by seeing the arguments laid out in a clear and cogent way?

 

[Dominus Fidelis]

Are you asking for names of people who've been persuaded to accept or reject either the Roman Catholic or the evangelical paradigm based at least partially upon what they perceive to be either the soundness of lack thereof of these kinds of arguments? Or those people whose thinking on these issues has been clarified by seeing the arguments laid out in a clear and cogent way?

Well, that depends on you...you made the claim that people's minds are being changed, so what are you claiming exactly and who's mind has been changed?

 

[Gabriel]

Thread closed.