Fine, but I certainly won't be reading something so biased.
No problem. A lot of people like it, but it isn't for everyone. No harm, no foul.
...where you give yourself permission to talk about me, and use SOME of my posts when I can't respond.
Well, if it was more than that it would be the actual thing I'm linking to, where the argument is actual and ongoing.
I have faith in God's arguments concerning His principle of sowing and reaping.
I've answered on that point. Job. I think you're overreaching.
Silly Town. You can say I'm "emotionally blind" and in the next breath accuse me of offering a "low insult". Excuse me while I :chuckle:
Sillier glory, why can't I? Someone I liked said something insulting about the most personal thing to a Christian, repeatedly, because she was so emotionally caught up in her position (that she forgot to be my friend in approach). There's nothing contradictory in it.
My feelings would not be hurt by your questioning my faith
Not how I think of it or would phrase it, but there's truth in it. I was offended, which is something like having your feelings hurt. I expect better of friends and I'm disappointed in myself when I fail that mark. I don't see either as a weakness.
If having the legitimacy of your faith questioned by someone you regard as a friend doesn't move you then I suppose I'd answer you don't value one of those particularly.
, nor do I care whether you think I have "empathy" or not.
Same answer, but I said your argument didn't evidence it. When you said you weren't indifferent on the point I took your word for it. Because you're in the best position to know your own mind and not crediting you with it would make any conversation a bit pointless.
I happen to know where I stand on both those things, so why in the world would I care what someone thinks who has misread so badly what I've said?
If we didn't care what people thought we wouldn't talk to them about anything. More so with people who hold us in regard and vice versa.
NO....NO.....NO. Job's friends were wrong about Job. Why do you keep using such a BAD EXAMPLE?
Because I keep hoping you'll hear me over the sound of that yelling. I know they were wrong. I noted they were wrong. Then what did I say? That's part of the problem. You assume you know someone is getting their just comeuppance and/or punishment. So did they.
Said Job's friends.
Telling the truth is never dangerous.
Right. But when you can't know the truth, telling what you think is the truth can be.
It's dangerous to tell a falsehood, like you have done....claiming that people don't deserve to suffer consequences for their BAD BEHAVIOR.
Ironic, since you just lied. I've never said that. In fact, I've said the contrary. What I've said is the wages of sin is death. That's suffering consequences. I've also noted that God corrects His own, that's suffering the consequences. And I've noted the problem with attempting to put ourselves in the shoes of God and declare who is getting what.
2 Timothy 4:14
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
You aren't the Lord and you can't know when the Lord is doing a thing and when it's something else, like Job...or like the simple, broken mechanism of the world...and the cow that crushed Bob's foot? Best not to speculate. It serves no end but our ego to assume.
Jeremiah 32:19
Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings
But it doesn't say when, does it. Which is why a rich man in hell said if he had known he would have chosen differently. Which is why good men sometimes die in their suffering, why children get cancer and why evil men have been known to perish on their thrones.
