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Originally Posted by Igzy
Well, then I'm going to ignore your experience, including any experience you've had of coming to understanding of the truth. Including any experience of logic and reasoning you've had. Live in your vacuum and ignore the insights and lives of others if that suits you. Be a hermit. Just don't build any bombs, okay?
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Igzy,
You already do that. You not only disregard my point of view but you also constantly undermine my person. Instead of considering my point of view in the sincerity in which it is delivered you consistently try to paint me into the strawman that makes it easy for you to discount what I tell you. I think I understand why you do it, but I am not willing to allow you to define me, nor to define what I believe.
Now to your point above, I believe experience is very valuable and essential in the Christian life. This is another example of taking what I am saying and either misunderstanding or purposely twisting it. I would like to believe the former and not the latter so I continue to repeat myself because I want to believe that you are simply misunderstanding. But the pattern is so frequent and so consistent that I am rapidly reaching the conclusion that you are purposely recasting what I say because it is easier for you to debate the person you need me to be than the person I really am.
So understand, that I do not discount experience, nor do I discount your experience. I just do not accept the way you interpret scripture about apostles because of your bad experience .
Drake