Quetzal
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For a second time, it would not bother me. Why? Because my actions do not reflect those things, therefore, I can safely assume that they have no idea what they are talking about.
Do you care if someone else accuses you of or sees you as....
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glorydaz
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BINGO
And, by golly, that's exactly what I think when Bybee and friends call me rude and hateful. They simply have no idea what they're talking about.
So believers who follow the word but are bothered by what others say (be it true or not), they should follow the others instead of God?
And a lot of times people aren't those things at all but these days are falsely accused to create false guilt to force them to be like the world.
Quetzal
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If that's the case, simply dismiss it and move on.
glorydaz
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This is the problem with projecting one's own short comings onto others. :think:
glorydaz
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If that's the case, simply dismiss it and move on.
Oh, simply shut up?
I don't want to shut up. If it bothered me, then your advice would undoubtedly be for the best. But it doesn't, so there's no need for me to do that.
Quetzal
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That is fair enough.
glorydaz
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Go along to get along. :nono:
The surest way to failure, is to try and please EVERYONE.
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It would depend on the person and the why of it. We're all capable of saying something thoughtless or inferring a thing unintended, so if the impression was rooted in my error it would concern me and I'd want it corrected. Else, no. Sometimes people speak from a skewed, agenda driven bias that won't allow an objective lens. On TOL I've been called both a liberal and an apologist for the Christian right.
People. Go figure.
I have no idea why you think that's what it means.
If one has ever lied, they are a liar.
If one has ever been racist, they are a racist.
I find it highly difficult to think that there are folks who have never been even slightly racist in deed or thought their whole life.
And, as Yogi Berra use to say:"If there is a fork, in the middle of the road, take it!"
Since its not a phrase im familiar with, that is how i took it.
Bill Cosby said that.
The problem is that some refuse to examine themselves under the same microscope they examine others.
Otherwise they would recognize that they are just as much a complete failure when it comes to being without sin as everyone else is.
Or as the Pharisees like to say, "I'm sure glad I'm not a big ol' sinner like that guy over there".
glorydaz
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I don't agree with that. There are many things we were, but aren't anymore.
1 Cor. 6:9-11 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
So your answer to the question in the op, is that no, you dont care what someone calls you, or yes, im not sure what your response is.
glorydaz
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Yes, there are some that do all kinds of things, but some is not all. It's a matter of motive, and a matter of having a clear conscience concerning one's own motives.
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