Post by you on Mar 25, 2006 23:09:20 GMT -5
spiderman said:
you said:
you seem to have a great reverence for the tulip but no love or respect for those in the fellowship you are part of
?I don't know Tulip from Adam. But because he is a part of God's creation, a human being, with feelings and a heart like anyone else, I do respect him and love him, the same way I do everyone in the fellowship that you say I have a part.
If you knew me and those I know in this fellowship, you could ask them if I love and respect them. You might be surprised by their answer. Listen to this carefully. We have all fallen short of the glory of God. Since the fall of Adam and Eve nothing has changed, except the Savior of our souls has come to make up for our ugliness and our weakness. God in the form of Jesus has done this for us. This is the grace. If it depended on our obedience, as this person would have us believe, who would make it? How difficult is that to get?
Hence, the disrespect you feel in my posts are not for the people in the fellowship, not even remotely. Get that clear in your mind. My disrespect is for the system that claims exclusivity on salvation. It's for the system that says if you really know God you'll dress a certain way, wear your hair a certain way, meet in homes in a certain way, follow a set of ministers who have set themselves above all others as God's only true servants. It's the system I reject. And sometime soon I will quietly slip away and people with your mind set can and will probably rejoice.
I've been told to stay so I can help others come to the same conclusions I have. But what I've seen happen more often is just people like you making assumptions about me, and calling me the names that this gentlemen in his diatribe has called all those who don't swallow, hook line and sinker, this system of elite Christians.
This guy wants to compare people like me with Korah, who rebelled against Moses. That's how deep the indoctrination of this system has become in one hundred years.
People who reject this fellowship are not your enemies. Your enemies are not flesh and blood. The sooner you realize this, the sooner you won't feel like you have to justify in some way the existence of your fellowship. If I didn't love and respect people like you, I would have remained silent for the last fifteen years in Sunday morning meetings about all these things. Believe me when I say that it would have been easier in some ways to just banter on along the company lines and know in my heart that things are not what they seem. But because I do love the people in the fellowship I've opened my mouth. Some have heard and some not. But those days are coming to a close. With respect for you, whoever you are.
Spiderman
sorry you haven't changed my mind
