LSM’s Ignorance of the Synoptic Problem - Tomes

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Originally Posted by aron

But when I argue my ideas, it seems like I become increasingly shrill. Like, "For the umpteenth time, here's my point! Why don't you all just get it??" (And the audience groans, "Oh no, not the Psalms again!)
When we hear others speak their minds, we have an opportunity to incorporate their points of view into our own. Sometimes that incorporation includes a fundamental re-assessment. But usually, I think, we accept what lines up with our pre-dispositions, and ignore (or downplay) the rest.
As I've written before (audience groans again) the ekklesia is a great place to get right-sized. When we realize that everybody isn't going to stampede after our every utterance, then we have to consider that, as awareness said, there are other views out there besides our own.
So the best thing that's happened to me is that I've posted here repeatedly on this forum, and still haven't convinced everyone that I am God's chosen oracle on the earth today. Were that so, what would have happened to my poor ego? I'm already an insufferable know-it-all!

****Pretty Much What This Forum Is All About****

Thanks aron for yet another post that really encapsulates what this forum is all about. I would make it the featured post but I don't won't the audience to groan yet again.

I fear that any of us who were in the Local Church for any length of time are going to be an "insufferable know-it-all" for the rests of our natural-born lives. (some of us were this way by nature, but being in "God's one move on earth" only increased this dynamic)

The two major themes of this forum are:
1) To help each other come to the full knowledge and reality of God - God the Father, the one and only true God, his Son Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, and the Spirit of Truth, who proceeds from the Father and the Son and is guiding us into all Truth.
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2) To help our dear brothers and sisters in the Local Churches to the full knowledge and reality of God - God the Father, the one and only true God, his Son Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, and the Spirit of Truth, who proceeds from the Father and the Son and is guiding us into all Truth.

As the Admin of this little popcorn stand, I will do anything within my power, time and resources to make these two goals to come to fruition. But this little dream of mine will only come about by the participation of brothers and sisters like all of you out there reading this post. And this does include dear and concerned brothers like Nigel Tomes, who has taken a considerable amount of his valuable time to produce such a work as is posted on this thread. Since this matter involves the Gospels, it is indeed as important as anything can be.

So, let's carry on and focus on what Dr. Tomes has given us!