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Originally Posted by Nell
What are you talking about???? My "constant reference" to Matt's post...? This topic is ABOUT Matt's post. This is a discussion, yet you falsely accuse me because I'm referring to the original post? That's absurd.
Again, I DID NOT call "knowledge evil." You read something into my post that is not there.
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Ok, I guess I’m reading to much into some of your words, I’m sorry. Maybe the description of knowledge in the start of this discussion, just triggers some things that I heard from LC for over a decade. I guess there are couple of us who had the same response.
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Originally Posted by Nell
Not trying to change your thinking...this is a discussion. You need to tell me what you need clarified. Specifically. I said what I meant. If you don't understand something, you need to be specific. I can't possibly guess what I need to clarify.
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Again, I was trying to ask you if you would please pick a line or a statement or paragraph from Matt’s post, that you would like me to read over, so I could respond, thus why I used the term “mind game”, because I can’t guess a specific issue you would like me to re-read. That’s all.
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Originally Posted by Nell
Are you calling my walk with the Lord "mind games"? Really? If you don't understand what I'm saying, say so. Be specific. Don't disparage my experiences, my walk with the Lord. Don't misrepresent my words to others who are reading this forum.
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Not calling your experience or anyones experience anything, nor am I disparaging you in any way, if that came across like that I’m sorry. I’m just trying to understand what you are pointing me to, when you say; “need to go back and read the original post”.
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Originally Posted by Nell
You're mocking me. Your disparaging, twisting of my words make a mockery of my walk with the Lord...because...it's different from your own? Because you don't understand what I'm saying? If you can "assume that it's not what was meant" then why say it?
I'm not trying to change what you think. I'm just presenting my own view of 1 Tim. 4:1-3.
Nell
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Why do we need to get so personal as if somehow your walk, my walk, or anyone else’s is under attack? There is nothing personal or mocking that I said or implied, at least from my end. What I said and referred to, is the fact that for over a decade I have heard those almost exact words, when I asked for some Biblical clarifications on a specific issue. It has nothing to do with you, or how you go about your relationship with the Lord. No one can alter or change that, it’s between you and the Lord, or me and the Lord.
When someone tells me that I’m not trying to know Him, by asking simple questions, but I’m seeking to know just Bible or looking for knowledge, is an incorrect statement. I know Him, just as I’m sure you do, and we are all in different stages of our growth, maybe you just further ahead of me down that path, only God knows. So please understand that I have nothing, zero, or not in any way twisting your words. Again, sorry if that’s how it sounded. That’s why I said that “I will assume that it’s not what was meant by those words”
I can read almost every single reply to one of my posts as someone mocking my views or my walk, but I don’t. Just as in a normal healthy family, there are disagreements between the siblings and they could get in a way of a bigger picture, so are these discussions sometimes, could be used as a wedge, rather than for building and sharpening.
Thanks