OzSpen,
Please, please, please, if you are going to participate in one of my threads, then I would kindly ask that you refrain from your game playing antics. Your games helped to result in a different thread being closed, and now you are playing those same games in this thread. So please knock it off. If you can't stick to discussing the subject matter of the thread, then I would assume you should have no reason to continue commenting in it.
Your game playing is not the subject of this thread: The Words of the Book being Sealed are. So I'm am politely asking that you stop playing your games in my thread.
ezrider,
Please, please, when you start a new thread, allow other posters to interact with your first post instead of making the first 11 posts come from you. This does not encourage engagement with one another in conversation.
Oz
I understand what you are trying to say here, but
I heard what you said. Why do you continue to not accept that? You were trying to give me advice on engaging people in a conversation in this setting. You suggested that I shouldn't start the thread with the first eleven posts. I considered what you said, and I repeatedly told you that I understood what you were saying.
If I start another thread, I need to keep it short and simple, like I did with the original post in this thread. Continuing on with the subsequent posts made it seem more like a lecture than it did looking for a conversation. I heard what you said. If I am fishing for a conversation, then I need to load up a little bait and cast it into the water and wait for a nibble. Nor should I expect to catch any fish if I cast my bucket of bait into pond before my line is even set. I get it. I will definitely consider this advice whenever I decide to start my next thread.
If you understood what I was trying to say, you would listen to what one of your audience is saying - which you weren't.
I already said that I understood what you were saying.
ezrider,
You said that you understood what I was saying, and proceeded to ask these questions in the same reply (#13).
You see Oz, this is where I realized that you were no more righteous than I, and that you were never here to engage in a conversation. You are only here to play your games and lecture others. You wouldn't accept that I took your advice to heart; Why? Because I asked a few questions. Well, in my world having a conversation involves asking and answering questions.
A yes, But...; does not mean No. The Yes is a confirmation, the But seeks clarification, are there exceptions? If you are trying to teach me something about engaging people in a conversation, then why would you not answer my questions? A real teacher would have listened, and answered the questions, given further clarification or perhaps asked a question of their own. But a lecturer is not interested in taking questions. A lecturer is only interested in lecturing others.
So far in this thread you have attempted to lecture me on posting etiquette while never addressing a single one of the posts that are the subject of this thread. A thread that I created because you wanted me to post scriptural evidence for my statement. Well that evidence was posted in the first 11 posts of this thread, which were simply too boring for you to take the time to read.
Now speaking of having conversations, another member made a comment about only Christ holding certain truths, and you questioned him, asking where did he hear such things. Well, he politely answered your question, but then you blew off his answer as some sort mystic experientialism with no basis in scripture. Instead of accepting his answer and asking a question of your own, you proceeded to lecture him about proving his own statements from the scripture. As if he should be as the Bereans and search the scriptures to prove his statement.
Well that is the end of your lecturing about being like the Bereans in this thread. Your lecture about being like the Bereans is a message meant for yourself, but you are not listening, you are lecturing. It is for you to go and search out the scriptures, to see if what you heard is true. The Bereans eagerly searched the scriptures, but you demand others to show you the evidence. You won't go and search the scriptures for yourself, because you won't believe believe without proof. I'm sorry my friend; But that is not the way Christ reveals Himself through Faith. You have to believe it first before He will show it unto to you, oh doubting Thomas.
Ironically again, you ask the other member for scripture showing that only Christ has certain knowledge. Perhaps the title of the thread and the OP remains hidden from you. The words of the book are sealed, and only Christ is worthy to loose the seals thereof. A comment that I made that you wanted scriptural evidence for. Well, I've done already thrown my bucket of bait in the pond. Can't do nothing about it now.
A good Berean would go and eagerly search the scriptures daily until he found if what he heard was true. But all you have to to is go back and start with post #1. I mean compared to the 66 books of the bible, the apocryphal books, your seminary and theological books, my first eleven posts must seem so daunting; or what did you say? Boring?
Well, maybe I didn't do it in the best format that suited others, but the post were each broken into short segments, easily handled on their own, but meant to flow as one thought from beginning to end, uninterrupted, showing that the words of the book are sealed and only Christ is worthy.
My first eleven post contain only 23 very short personal comments or thoughts. They also contain 23 different scripture references of less than 100 total verses. Is that so daunting?
But you were right about one thing, the first eleven posts were like a one-way conversation. Christ through His Words, but you didn't want to listen. If you don't want to listen to what the Word says, then why do you continue to lecture to others about searching the words of the book?
