>Personal experience would have me agree, Lance.
I have much personal experience to the contrary. Shall we rely upon personal experience or The Word and The Ruach?
Folk on our side of the aisle are more congenial and forgiving than oneness believers -- and that explains your favorable results in the face of my negative experience. You are talking to a more positive audience while I, alas, am mired in discussions with the radical right fringe of the Christian church.
>And to imagine that this debate has something to do with one's salvation
OBJECTION ... No foundation, facts not in evidence i.e. yet another straw man -- I'm no scarecrow and you're no wiz!
It does with every oneness I have ever spoken to. Are you saying that it really does not matter to you in terms of fellowship what I believe?
>is downright criminal.
Hyperbole? Just what crime would that be if your baseless assertion were so?
When you violate the law, you become a criminal. When you work against the love of the brethren - you, Chris Barr, put yourself in that category. Your despise for the brethren is clear testimony (according the Apostle John) that the spirit you claim to have is something less than what you fantasize.
I have had a large number of discussions with "oneness" believers. Without exception, they wind up being legalistic in their faith and exclusive in their sense of fellowship.
