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Originally Posted by Ohio
I was mildly shocked to learn this since your English diction is so good.
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Hi Ohio,
I appreciate the comment, had to learn the hard way. I came here as a teenager, with no knowledge of any English, but after 20+ years, one better learn to speak the language. I have harder time writing and speaking in my native tongue, since I have transitioned to basically thinking in English. I have a long way to go, to be able to speak and express some things in the easy to understand way, need to learn bigger vocabulary base, but I guess you only learn by doing so. Speaking of a great vocabulary base, I got the quote for you from my favorite preacher, Charles Spurgeon, who in his sermon in the mid 1850s said the following regarding new discoveries and revelations:
“You may apply to us any contemptuous titles you please, but we know that, if we were to express the truth about you, there is no adjective of contempt which you do not deserve. Therefore because we know of no language, no language sufficiently strong to set forth our hatred of your false doctrine, we will let you pass in silence. My brethren, when you hear that an man has made a new discovery which contradicts the scriptures, don’t feel alarmed. Don’t imagine that he is a really great man, but believe that he is just an educated idiot or self-conceited fool. If you find the time to read the works of scholarly skeptics, you will soon see that their statements of fact are not reliable, their deductions are not logical, their inferences are monstrous, and their speculations are insane!”
Have a great evening,
God bless.