Time and again, normaly intellegent people will get caught up in Straing at a Gnat and Swallowing a Camel. Talk about Adventures in Missing the Point!

What's worse, is when someone who has not got caught up in the fiasco, points out what's going on, they get attacked, and treated like morons for not having the intellegence to pick up on the "Subtlties of the Issue".

It really doen't take a lot of intellegence to extricate a Secondary, or Tertiary matter and beat it to death while ingnoring the main and more important issue, therby making the secondary issue the New Issue.

No doubt someone will do that with this post. Or even less creativly, try to point out that this post itself is off topic.

This post is Off Topic from Mohler, and evolution. It is so of Necessity.

If you want to discuss Epistimological Dualism, e mail each other. Talk about straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel....

Jim Lincoln wrote:
It seems like a tolerant policy to me, In the article they used as another example of a school in West Virgina, which allowed everyone to pass out literature. I wonder how happy the parents of those children would be if it were Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons, or for that matter [URL=http://www.answering-islam.org/Muhammad/index.html]]]Muhammad[/URL]ans passing out their religious literature? I would think there would be enough parents to make sure nothing was passed out in the West Virginia school after that.

Jessica Dawson wrote:
God bless!
It is wrong for people to bully others: It is The Love of God that brings sinners to repentance. I am certainly pathetic: And am just a mentally ill, head injured, cripple. But I have this to say: People who are hostile toward homosexual people are not sharing Jesus. We have no right to try to force people to live under rules that they haven't agreed to, we have no right to shame people. Shaming someone sexually is abusive: And those who are abusive to homosexuals, should not be assumed to be Christians. Sharing that there is a better way to live, is different than a bully who speaks abusive language and physically assaults someone.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
Unfortunately, in America they are always inventing something new, either new Judaism or "new Christianity" and both are false of course, However, [URL=http://withchrist.org/MJS/theonomy.htm]]]Theonomy[/URL] isn't new to this country and someone should point out to this huckster just [URL=http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=10120711555910]]]How the Church Relates to the Kingdom[/URL].
While America may have had a veneer of Christianity and Christian influence has been strong in American history, you really have to stretch your imagination to ever call America Christian.
I wonder if this huckster had anything to do with the PBS series "God in America", probably a link is provided in, [URL=http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/10/a-closer-look-at-the-influence-of-religion-in-america.html]]] A Closer Look at the Influence of Religion in America[/URL]

John Yurich USA wrote:
Baptists teach that salvation comes by praying to Jesus and asking Him to become ones Personal Savior. And the Baptists derive that teaching from what Jesus told Nicodemus that one must be Born Again in order to be saved. That is not a commandment of men but is a commandment of Jesus. In otherwords you believe that all Baptists are not saved because they teach that salvation comes by praying to Jesus and asking Him to become ones Personal Savior? And you believe that anybody who does what the Baptists teach about how to get saved is not saved either?

After all the Thread Topic is Clowns doing a church service, not How to get saved.

John UK wrote:
Hi Randy, it's so good to hear from you again.
I hope Horn hasn't seen your post, because he's likely to have a go at you for saying that a spirit is teachable. To him, that is mysticism in its purest form. (Quick, edit it and change spirit to mind).

[URL=http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2009/04/non-sola-scriptura-blackaby-view-of.html]]] Non Sola Scriptura: the Blackaby view of God's will — 1[/URL]

John UK wrote:
I do not accept that I have ever been OFF topic.
Whose side are you on?

Randy wrote:
You guys have gotten so far off topic that this thread will not last much longer. Why don't yopu just hit the little envolope icon and e amil John. Instead of clogging the whole thread with your debate?

HornNest wrote:
You read all that into the passage?!!
Conversion was a radical felt change, but is not a daily experience
I don't look to "feel" the Lord near me. I seek to believe his word and obey him. And guess what? He proves himself to me, by giving me understanding, proving faithful to his promises, giving deliverance from sin, giving a love for spiritual things, answering prayers etc. It is this way that I have a relationship with him. Out of love for him I do the things that he wants me to do, and he for his part does loads more for me. Like in a marriage where the partners love each other. They don't bang on about their "love" as a feeling, but they show their love by actions! That is the union, that is the fellowship (or sharing)!!
What you're banging on about is some sort of mystical "felt" spiritual union! Some sort of felt Spirit to Spirit communication. QED you're a mystic!