DAVEH: I
always try to be respectful, Terry. And I appreciate you doing
likewise. I assume you will also allow me my beliefs, as I allow
yours. In that sense, we can both have a pleasant conversation while
still adhering to our respective beliefs.
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Please forgive the
red print. When I hit reply, this goofy machine answers in whatever
color it received.
It is nice to be able
to have a pleasant conversation with an intelligent person, but it is also
frustrating. I am not trying to win a debate. I am trying to save
you from eternity in Hell. Not only you, but those that you
influence.
Our Lord says
that we will give an account for every idle word we speak (or write). IF
you are wrong in your beliefs, that means every time you say something to
influence another to your way of thinking, you are heaping coals on your own
head, and I am causing those coals to add up just by conversing with
you.
Unfortunately,
I cannot twist your arm or beat you about the head until you see the
truth. God does not work that way. To complicate the issue, you
already consider yourself to have the truth, so this is more complicated than
trying to reach someone who is not encumbered with preconceived
ideas.
The logical thing to
do would be to write you off and abandon the effort, but I am not comfortable
doing that. Maybe I just need to give the Holy Spirit time to
work. I know the Lord has you in this group for a reason, and I doubt
that it is His plan to have you here so that we have someone to look down
on. He doesn't work that way either. I pray that it is so that
someday the little light will go on and you will be saved. I know that
you are quite comfortable with what you now believe, but I was once very
comfortable in my sin too.
Respectfully, but
ineffectively,
Terry
