From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In a message dated
3/26/2004 8:54:10 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
jt says
jt says
What does jt say? I don't
see anything in this space.....
You recently posted an email that addressed both BillT and myself.
I think this is what Izzy was talking about. She used the party
scenario.
jt: No Izzy has an issue that goes back a long.....
time
Mine is the gunslinger scenario. There you are on your white
horse, riding
down the main street of Dodge, "throwing lead" just as fast as you can pull
the trigger.
jt: Oh! Not more of this, when are we going to lay
aside vain imaginations and deal with
what is relevant?
You may not believe this, but each person on this list is accomplished in some area of
You may not believe this, but each person on this list is accomplished in some area of
discussion with the possible exception of G.
jt: How do you know this in such a short time - and
what's wrong with 'G'? Surely you
don't accept Izzy's pronouncement about him. She is
cryptic and critical, but I find he
has a good sense of humor and is good for a
laugh. He is also a poet. He may be
different but he is not destructive.
I avoid those thread I have little interest in, such as the Polanyi
discussion.
But even in that thread, there has been several posts that I have saved.
The Mormon
boys are here to probably convert the rest of us which forces some on the
list to sharpen
their understanding of why they claim the name of Christ and recognize the
biblical message
as the revelatory kingpin of the faith. Because the message of
grace is just as obvious in
the Mormon Bible as in ours, the opportunity for commonality is always
there with them.
jt: They are taught that they have the full revelation
and we just have a part.
They do not have to reject their faith in order to accept Christ and the
larger fellowship of
the saints any more than the Jews of the first church had to forsake their
sense of religion
(Judaism) when they came to a knowledge of Christ.
jt: Where would you come up with an idea like
that? You can not be Mormon/Christian
any more than you can be Jew/Christian. Christ is
all in all. It's Him plus nothing. Jews
must give up their rituals and Mormons their
heresy.
Pick a couple of threads and, if you are not here to learn and receive, then use those threads
Pick a couple of threads and, if you are not here to learn and receive, then use those threads
to shape your ability to communicate. A preacher who has not
converts is just another guy
who likes to talk. If you are neither improving your personal
ability and rhetoric or learning
and growing as a result of being on this list, then why are you
here?
jt: Why would you think I am not learning and
growing?
By the way, there really is not an answer to that question.
By the way, there really is not an answer to that question.
Slow down, unload and grow in your own way. John
smithson
