<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]This may be off topic, and if so, let me know, but what about slander that is not done in "traditional" gossip "form"? Like...there is a person who speaks the truth of what the Bible clearly teaches and is constantly "hated" by people and offends people all the time? </font><hr></blockquote><p> On Target.<br><br>I think though they are somewhat different, they are closely related and easily included in this thread. A VERY valid point. Christ, Paul, and others throughout history were/are hated for (1) who they were (2) what they represented (3) what they believed (4) what they stated (5) and how they stated it, etc.<br><br>I think many even today desire individuals to [color:red]schmooze</font color=red> (Pilgrim's Dictionary of Terms-PDT, [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/rofl.gif" alt="rofl" title="rofl[/img]) over issues without ruffling feathers or pinning down other's beliefs. They say it is not loving to do such. They have the wrong definition of love and thus they begin to crawl down the tube of trouble in gossip and such. One could really wonder if they have any "true love" for the lost themselves. They make false accusations and like a mosquito become a pest drawing the blood from the arm of God's Word and sometimes depositing other diseases (malaria of malice) to the furtherance of the one true Gospel.

Reformed and Always Reforming,