Well.....sir. Though opinions are expressed routinely in the course of debate, and though we question each other's "facts" often, and though I note you offer a threat instead of rebuttal, I will, in the future, refrain from using a specific number to describe Protestantism's troubling and unbiblical "rugged individualism."
Opinions are not facts. Your comparison is illogical. And yes, I am questioning this fact. Offer evidence or admit it's pure hype. It is Rome that is individual in many claims, this topic only being one. You may use a specific number, but you'll need to offer more than exaggerated rhetoric. I understand the need to hype the numbers to make your case look better. However, this is dishonest. How about if I take the true number of child molesting priests and then multiply it by ten? Then claim it's merely opinion? Let's be true here and avoid the discussion sliding into insults and half truths.
There is no threat. You misunderstand. It was a rebuttal. I claim you can't support yet another fact.
Another issue is your continuing practice of lumping several groups under the reformation that are actually quite distant from anything the reformation was about. Many modern American movements are clsoer to Rome in their beliefs and many fall outside orthodoxy. Deal with the true reformers and leave the reformulaters out.
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I will instead use words such as "numerous", and "countless", which probably better describe this problem.
Numerous may cover it. Countless you would need to support to avoid that hype problem you insist upon repeating. Two things that probably don't do well here, "I say so" and "Rome says so".
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I will do this in the interest of peace and in deferrence to your authority.
Surely wouldn't be fairness or honesty, would it? You have the opportunity to prove your claim.
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Whether you are rightly exercising your authority is between you and those from whom you derive it.
Yup. Emotional appeal noted.
God bless,
william
Last edited by averagefellar; Mon Oct 18, 200411:21 PM.
