Originally Posted by Indiana

I had contacted Jane and John a few years ago but we couldn’t make good progress. Now I see the problem on my side better, and I understand the vehemence several had toward me. This is much different than receiving vague messages; John and Jane clearly state the case, because they actually have one. And, they win. I agree with their judgment.

http://www.makingstraightthewayofthe...ndJane2016.pdf

Originally Posted by Bilbodog

No problem brother Igzy. Appreciate the thoughtfulness. Doing well.

... and it was entertaining. ;-)

Grace to you.

Hope all are well.

Bilbodog

Originally Posted by Bilbodog

No problem brother Igzy. Appreciate the thoughtfulness. Doing well.

... and it was entertaining. ;-)

Grace to you.

Hope all are well.

Bilbodog

Originally Posted by Igzy

Stepping away from the board for awhile has allowed me to think more clearly about what's important. It's easy to get contentious here and I wish to apologize for having being a bit too much at times.

More seriously, I want to apologize to several people publicly.

Lastly, I want to apologize to Bilbodog, wherever he may be. If you don't know who I'm talking about, you missed an entertaining show. Anyway, sorry to you too, bro. I hope you are out there and doing well.

Okay, that's all. Back to the discussions. Just try to remember... in the end, relationships are everything.

Igzy

Originally Posted by aron

To wit: Solomon wrote that ("iron sharpens iron") in his fallen nature, and the compilers, not knowing better, included it in the Holy Writ, and it was canonized in error, by people who didn't know the difference between "grace" and "law", and all this was not picked up on until God's New Testament Economy released us from fallen human concepts, and into the Good Land of masticating the processed Triune God.

Originally Posted by HERn

OK. Sure fooled me.

Originally Posted by Koinonia

I think he was being sarcastic...

Originally Posted by HERn

Interesting concept you have there. I wonder where you picked it up?

I'm going with Paul on this one:

All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right.

2 Timothy 3:16 Living Bible

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Oh, you poor, poor Christians, don't you know that King Solomon wrote that proverb in his fallen nature? 'Iron sharpens iron' is a fallen, human, fleshly concept that has no correspondence with God's economy! Purrleease!

O' How long must we bear with you people?

Originally Posted by JJ

By the way, I never heard the phrase "iron sharpens iron" in the local churches. That's too bad. We all could have used some sharpening and true "blending" with the saints not meeting in TLC. It would have been a big help.

Originally Posted by JJ

By the way, I never heard the phrase "iron sharpens iron" in the local churches. That's too bad. We all could have used some sharpening and true "blending" with the saints not meeting in TLC. It would have been a big help. Instead we sued anyone disagreeing with us, missed the opportunity, and got duller, weirder and weirder, and sicker and sicker.

Originally Posted by OBW

Apologies were due all around between us. And I have always considered offenses to me less than it might have seemed at the time. And therein is the evidence that I have the same need to apologize to you. And I do. We all are blind about some aspects of our effects on others, and even our own motives.

Originally Posted by OBW

Apologies were due all around between us. And I have always considered offenses to me less than it might have seemed at the time. And therein is the evidence that I have the same need to apologize to you. And I do. We all are blind about some aspects of our effects on others, and even our own motives. And too often I got done with posting a scathing reply of "righteous" indignation to something and then read it again just a few days later and had to ask myself "Who is the idiot that wrote that?"

And as Pogo once (or more than once) said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."