Why not let the moderators speak for themselves, Robert?
@
Sherman ??
You've gone out of your way to consign anyone that disagrees with you to be lost, hell-bound, and sin bent. By implying what you have declared to be
de fide and all others in disagreement
anathema, you effectively draw
first blood each and every time you are met with disagreement. Is there any wonder that others take umbrage with you and respond in kind?
It is one thing to lay that charge at the feet of a non-believer, but quite another when your opponents, are professing believers. You are living up to the
Pope Pate moniker often assigned to you.
Digging in as you have done, refusing to being open to even a modicum of correction, speaks to your blindness to any opinion outside your own. In all the years you have been present there has been not one indication that you consider anyone here by name to be your brother or sister. I wonder exactly who,
specifically, is considered walking the same path of faith that you do. Can you name a single
specific person on this site you would call brother, sister? Do so, if you can.
Why not actually engage with real discussion? Ask questions. Probe your interlocutors for more details, then respond sincerely. Your usual tactic of teeing up Scripture verses lifted from their surrounding context, then declaring victory is really becoming wearisome.
Instead it seems you to want to hold yourself forth as some sort of prophet endued moreso by the Spirit and His illumination than anyone else. Examine yourself, Robert. Go back and review your behavior in these past few months wherein you have peppered the site with redundant pronouncements. Carefully look at the responses you have been given. Ignore any vitriol therein. Tease out what is being said, and then begin an honest dialog.
From someone who has been basically on the sidelines in this long running topic, it appears that
each time you have been given a substantive response, your rejoinders have been but terse denouncements, sprinkled with more Scripture citations, left naked and unexplained by you. You take no pains to dig into responses received, ask questions, cast your responses with attention to their content, and make substantive arguments. Instead, it is "
I, Robert, have so stated. That settles it." That is not discussion, Robert. It is browbeating rhetoric.
If you are unwilling to change your methods, it would be best for you to confine yourself to picking on us Calvinists. That way you will fly under the radar and provide some entertainment for others. For—if the past few months is any indication—when you come out of your comfort zone and dip your toe into matters outside of Calvinism, your embarrassing deficiencies are made plain for all to see.
Lastly, I have to observe that the past couple of months have been quite telling about your state of affairs on important matters of the faith. It has been a revealing lesson in how far you have strayed beyond the bounds. No one is taking you seriously anymore, Robert.
AMR