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It was reasoned from scripture,

This is hardly the case, brother! You assumed something which you concluded from nothing more than your own imagination, since you haven't talked to the man nor have you read his publicly printed reply to the question posed to him concerning his involvement with ECT, etc. Thus your basis for making your conclusions isn't based upon FACT, it is therefore unacceptable. And since I have talked to the man and read his answer, I can tell you, which I have already but will do so again, it is clearly NOT "pragmatism", nor most definitely because he has become "a friend to the world". Rather than me telling you what he said and/or wrote, which I doubt would hold much weight in your eyes, I will therefore suggest once again that you at least read his published answer [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/readit.gif" alt="readit" title="readit[/img]. Then, upon the man's own words, you will thereby be able to make a more informative judgment based upon FACTS, unless of course, you would judge what he wrote to be ingenuous?

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and you have told us yourself that you don't understand them.

Sorry, but I have never said that I didn't "understand them", but rather I found his reason for his actions, "wanting". And so you don't misconstrue what I mean by "wanting", I will lay it out for you clearly. I fully understood his reasons, but I didn't think that they were justifiable. However, I am not the man's Judge. I found nothing spurious or wanting with his motives however, e.g., as being "worldly".

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Are you suggesting that Mr. Packer is above misguided motives?

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As far as directing you to Dr. Packer's written statement concerning his involvement with ECT, the best I can do for you at this particular time is to tell you that it appeared in one of the back issues of the Reformation and Revival Journal. You might consider contacting Reformation and Revival Online and ask if they still have copies of the back issue or even a printed copy of Dr. Packer's article. [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin[/img]

In His Grace,


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