Re: [TruthTalk] The right way to get to the truth

[Knpraise]

In a message dated 12/6/2004 1:34:47 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

We are the body of Christ. You think you're in "pursuit of the truth" and so you write back to someone with whom you disagree, and you ask him eight or ten questions intended to falsify his claims. Then he writes back to you, answering these questions to the best of his ability. And what do you do? You shoot him back 8-10 more questions, again all in the "spirit" of this dogged "pursuit of the truth." By this point it is not one thread or one topic about which you disagree, it is several now. Ah, but have you gotten to the truth? No you haven't. You have strained your relationship though. Oh, but it is truth that we are after! So you write him back again and you ask him several more questions and you remind him of the ones previous that he has yet to answer and the whole time you are hot on the trail of truth, your nose to the ground -- and you are oblivious to the fact that you are missing the truth because you are destroying the relationships that truth embodies: the body of Christ.