A Word of Love

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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

Yes it is still mystifying why you would take an awesome work like the gospel of Matthew that concludes with this incredible commission to all . . . .

Where does it make this commission to all? You are presuming. Give me a reason for accepting that a word given in such an obviously and overtly specific manner to only 11, and not the 100 or more other followers, is "this incredible commission to all." You haven't even tried to do that. You just presume that it should be so. It surely isn't because of the context. So what is the reason? Make a point. Don't just restate mine into things I didn't say.

Or at least give me a reason to consider that it is reasonably plausible. I have done that for you. And you have never actually responded to my point, but made out as if I have diminished the whole of Matthew to instructions for clergy.

Where did I do that? You don't like it when I say "strawman." But either you really don't bother reading my posts and just give knee-jerk reactions to certain words, or you are not understanding me, or you are throwing out strawmen. I can accept that it is not willful, and simply that you don't understand. But every time you comment on the whole of Matthew, it is either a misunderstanding of what I have said or a willful attempt to change the subject. I am presuming the former.

But a strawman is a strawman. So if you didn't intend to do that, then you should reconsider whether you are understanding what I am saying because you sure aren't responding to it.