From: "Blaine Borrowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Blaine: Perry's response below is another example of what I have said to Kevin: It is the pot calling the kettle black. Why are you on TT, Perry?
I am on TT because I love to discuss and debate religous issues. And, I often am challenged and occasionally hear something that causes me to re-evaluate my own understanding of it.
The name of this e-group seems to be ignored by most of you as we search for the truth. I have made a number of posts putting Mormonism in a positive light, and so far have received NO responses to any of them.
You aren't exactly preaching to the choir, here, Blaine.
But if fault can either be found or manufactured against Mormons or Mormonism, it is grabbed on to and blown out of proportion. Your below comments fit the "blown out of proportion" variety, it seems to me. Perhaps before condemning Dave for a simple contextual error, you should have asked him if that is what he really meant. Your too-quick response shows yourself as having a too-strong desire to seek occasion against DaveH. Just remember, if you are always trying to dig a pit for your neighbor, perhaps eventually you are the one who will fall into the pit. (:>)
If this is a mere contextual error on DaveH's part, then he has made it repeatedly. When he states he is not on TT to learn truth, but that he is on TT to learn what Protestants believe, that is a BIG insult to Protestants, because it is the same as saying, "Protestants do not believe the truth". That means the game is over. He is NOT interested in learning what protestants believe, otherwise he would have learned it by now. He admits he has not. So, his stated reason for being on TT does not match his actions. That is why I see DavidH as not being genuine in his stated goals.
On the other hand, if he stated that he thinks protestants do not believe the truth, and that he is here to prove them wrong and set them straight, then he would be stating the truth, because that is what his actions say, contrary to his words. You know the old addage, "Actions speak louder...".
When I first got on TT I was extremely confused by DaveH's responses. Claiming to want to know what protestants believe, he would ask me what protestants believe about a topic, and I wold tell him. But, instead of learning what they believe he would come back to debate it instead. The confusion went away when I began to judge his ACTIONS rather than his WORDS, and I realized that his goal was not properly stated, and was a guise for an underlying motive, which even he may not be aware of.
Perry
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