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Originally Posted by Thankful Jane
Psa 24:3-5 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Maybe I should have quoted them and substituted in fair and balanced to make my point. “Who shall stand in His holy place? He that is fair and balanced...” or “Let us draw near with a fair and balanced heart.” 
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TJ, all these are precious verses for sure, but I'm not understanding the sarcasm you continue to fling my way ever since I made a general comment about our posts needing to be "fair and balanced." To be exact, the verses you quoted only speak of "
drawing near," while the verse I initially referred to stated "
the Lord is near," following Paul's exhortation to "
let your forbearance be known to all men." -- Phil 4.5
My point at the time was that
forbearance could be described as "fair and balanced." It seems really strange to me that you have made my simple expression the center of attention. Are you now going to play with all scripture by inserting my little expression? My introduction of "fair and balanced" was only to be a catch phrase for poster interactions, it was never intended to replace the "
full assurance of faith" or a "
pure heart" towards the Lord.
A thousand insertions like this don't negate my original point. Quoting verses like this is
not speaking the word of God, but rather the playing of games. I do believe these things are far below the standard of a person of your stature. We have had a friendly relationship for three years now, and it's quite troubling to watch it deteriorate over this matter of idolatry.