via_dolorosa said:
That's an easy proposition. Declare yourself right and condemn everyone else's opinion as a "false gospel." Never mind that Paul was addressing a completely different issue at the time.
Paul was referring to the false gospel of the Judaizers, of course. But he wrote, "if anyone
a gospel contrary to what we preached to you, he is to be accursed (Galatians 1:8 and 9)!"
That is exactly what Roman catholicism is. While it isn't the
same false gospel that the Judaizers preached, it is nonetheless contrary to the Lord's and the Apostles' teaching.
You wrote:
As far as "hatred" goes, my characterization is spot on and you would have no moral right to say otherwise. To give you an example, if a black person were to view something you said as racist, you could not tell that person that what you said is not racist if you're not black.
Racism has a straightforward definition: It is the belief that one race is innately superior to another. If a statement makes no assertion that one race is superior to another, then it is not racist no matter what color skin the person who stated it is wearing.
You are a newcomer to this forum, so let me just offer a couple of points you need to consider:
1. - You characterized Covenant in Blood's remarks as "hate" without any knowledge of the man. You cannot and obviously do not know what was in his heart, therefore you cannot judge it as motivated by hatred of any person or group of people.
2. - As I have recently reminded others here,
the-Highway is a Reformed site. Its purpose is to promote and defend the doctrines recovered from under the deep piles of Roman corruption and superstition that nearly obscured the truth. For you to appear in a Reformation forum with a purpose counter to that of the forum, you should expect a negative response. If you perceive it as hatred, all I can say is that this was your idea, pal. You literally
asked for opposition by advocating a theology and religious system which wrongfully took the lives of many of our forefathers. It seems to me that you came here to pick a fight. So don't complain about "hatred" when you get what you asked for.
Covenant in Blood is not even capable of the sort of hatred you have assigned to him. But he - like most of the rest of us in this forum - vehemently opposes every lofty thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge of God. And that includes damnable Roman Catholic heresy.
-Robin
