JOHNJWILSON -> JIM HOLSONBACK wrote:
 -=>>> On 03-12-08 22:51 JOHNJWILSON wrote to JIM HOLSONBACK <=-

 ->>  
 JO>>>> It's bad enough when Christians 'proof text' the Bible for
 J> private
 JO>>>> purpose,

 ->>> Oh, really?

 JO>>> Yeah, really.

 ->> But it's OK when a heretic does it?

 J> I believe 99.9999% of all Christians are heretics. :-


 ->>  
 JO>>>> 'And go to all the nations...I bring not peace but a
 J> sword'...:-)

 ->> A false conflation, and deliberate misinterpretation of Jesus using the
 ->> word 'sword' as a metaphor, not speaking of a literal physical weapon.

 ->>> Et tu quoque, Brute!

 JO>>> Exactly.

 ->> Some Christians erroneouslly 'proof text' using the Bible ignorantly.
 ->> Above, you did it deliberately.  You know better than this.  Shame on
 ->> you, sir!

 J> (Shuffle, shuffle, drooping shoulders, eyes cast down...)




 ->>> So why the shit-eating grin?  You just did what you criticize others
 ->>> for doing.

 JO>>> Yep. First we examine the words 'private purpose'. Being a saint,
 J> and
 JO>>> flawless, I was forced, by example, to illustrate that you can
 J> prove
 JO>>> damn neat anything with a proof text.

 ->> Bullshit!  You were 'forced' to do no such thing, and you proved
 ->> nothing.

 J> (Eye's cast down & etc....)


 JO>>> "All Scripture is profitable...(but must be)...rightly
divided."

 ->> In the case of your "sword" interpretation, you
deliberately wrongly
 ->> 'divided the word'.  You have done this before, concerning the verse in
 ->> question.  You recently did so in a post to our Jewish friend, Alan, in
 ->> another echo.  Nobody 'forced' you to do it there, either.

 J> Now if I was just big big on shame...

 JO>>>  My grins are charming, pious, noble, honest and true to all but
 J> you
 JO>>> Mr. Scorn-opportunist.

 JO>>> :-) !!

 ->> Bullshit!  Your deliberate dishonesty is deserving of scorn.

 J> Scorn away...hey! Wait for it...I'm bound to give you another
 J> opportunity...:-)

That's right! Scramble his ego! ;)


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