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Originally Posted by aron
So Kerry Robichaux is imposing an abstract motif, the ladder/bridge, and creating his own meaning, and - importantly - ignoring what the actual words of the scripture say. An abstraction is used to parse scripture, what is noted and what is ignored. And perhaps this is what our poster Bible Believer can say in his LSM-run Bible study group. But I personally believe that if you get into fencing matches with abstractions, you'll never win. You have entered enemy territory. They're built for this - they love this stuff. I think that pursuing this line with LSM adherents is playing in their court. They love to shuffle words around. 'Trinity' versus 'Triune', and 'essences' versus 'energies', and 'Godhead' versus 'persons'. Its all a shell game with words, it's what they do for a living. If you want to arm Bible Believer for that, be my guest.
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Originally Posted by aron
I'm saying that if you engage them with parsing's of words, that's what they do for a living. You're in their turf, on their terms. I don't see that as anything but an exercise in fruitlessness.
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Aron, totally agree with you. Like the Plymouth Brethren tract-wars of old, LSM loves this stuff. They are seasoned wordsmiths. They invite you in and then fight the fight they love to fight. I lived this for 30 years, and studied it for another 15 years. Even God is tired of their word games.
This is why I always bring it back to LSM's character, to their unrighteousness, to their rotten behavior. The old LSMers on this forum like Bilbo, Cassidy, and Drake hated it. They claimed I was like a broken record, stuck on Philip Lee. I could care less.
Jesus in the Gospels rebuked the Jews for their hypocrisy. Read Paul's many epistles. He fought this same battle for decades. He often used the character standard too. The Jews hated him for that. Paul even got punched in the mouth for saying that he "
conducted himself in all good conscience." (Acts 23.1-2)