Genesis 13:8
 

Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have fighting between us, .... After all, we're family... ." Genesis 13:8 from The Message

I thought of this Scripture after reading some of the posts here lately.
On one we have Bro. Price and Rico going back and forth.
I've been guilty of saying stuff with a smart-mouthed, sarcastic attitude.
We had one where a bunch of people jumped on Bro. Strange.
We've seen others where it gets pretty heated.
Some of these discussions generate heat but no light at all.

Can't we show a little more respect towards our brothers and sisters?
Remember that famous preacher called Bro. Dangerfield that used to say, "I get no respect"?

All of these threads being started about an attack on Bro. Strange...

I do not veiw questiooning what he said as an attack or BS being jumped on. It is a discussion which he started and then disappeared. If he would have been here earlier it probably would have ended quicker.

Lesson...if you start a cotroversy, do it when you have time to finish it or you will unleash a banter of "he said she said" with those trying to defend for and against the cotroversial statements....

Besides, BS questioned the spiritual motivation of an entire district...and his defenders seem to have ignored or forgotten that point.

Good point, T1.

Sam, I, for one, am sick to death of people like Bill Price, who think it's their job to come on these forums and tell people they need to repent and pray back through. Pray back through to what, what they are? No thanks! If it's a fight people like him are looking for then they have come to the right person because I am not going to stand for it anymore.

Show respect? Yes. And if YOU want respect show it to others. Personally I dont like debate or hard, strained feelings but rather love and peace.

But if we cannot hammer out controversial issues ON THIS FORUM WHERE CAN WE?

As far as Bro. Strange goes he should have known what he said would be challenged and questioned if not attacked outright. If you dish it out be ready to take it.

Good post Sam.But the thing i find most disturbing on this forum is the lack of forgiveness in some.Without it we have nothing.

I love everyone! And have Adam, Jamie and Tori standing by to put that myth to the test!

:)

Where is Grant?

Bro.Sam I have a message Bible myself but I'm not too crazy about it.
It's not my cup of tea.

I wonder why BP is here....isn't there a Conservative Apostolic forum where he can go to and flame AFF from? :winkgrin

Years ago The Living Bible (TLB) came out.
It was released in stages.
In 1962 some of the NT books came out and were called Living Letters.
I got a copy and since I was a staunch KJV only person, I openly condemned the Living Letters version.
Then in July 1971 the whole Bible became available.
I was in a Bible Study group at GE (worked there from 1966 to 1998) around 1974 and I put that version down, calling it a paraphrase and not a real translation.

Some time later I read an interview with Dr. Kenneth Taylor (author of TLB) about how it was developed and how through it some people were drawn closer to the Lord and how some people came to know the Lord through it. By that time my KJV only bias was mellowing.

Some time before that I had seen a UPC pastor whom I had known from Bible School reading a book while he was on the platform before a Youth Rally. I asked his wife what he was reading. She told me he had bought an Amplified NT and could hardly lay it down. I soon got one in paper back and wore it out.

Later, I got a NT called The Layman's Parallel New Testament. It had 4 translations in it: KJV, Amplified, Living New Testament, RSV. I took that NT to work and used it for several years in the Bible Study Groups. Later on, in the nineteen nineties I got a copy of The Spirit Filled Life Bible (NKJV) and that became the Bible I used at work.

I've come to like The Living Bible. It's pretty readable. Yes, it is a paraphrase but I like reading it as an alternative. I have a NLT and have read that through twice but I have never read TLB through. I have the Message but it is only the NT and is in a NT that I have which has 8 translations. The book is called The Contemporary Parallel New Testament and has: KJV, NCV, NIV, CEV, NIV, NKJV, NLT, and The Message. One problem (to me) with the Message and The Living Bible is that the wording is a little too contemporary and since our language is constantly changing, some of the words and phrases can become dated.

Rico,
I think you should cut Bill Price a little slack. He's a very sincere young man. He's been through several phases in his "search for truth." When he grabs onto something he grabs hard and believes that "this is it --anything else is wrong." He has been accused of flip-flopping and I guess that's a pretty descriptive term. He comes off as narrow minded and judgmental but I think it's just his zeal. Years ago I read an article called "Zeal Without Knowledge is a Runaway Horse." I think it was in the Apostolic Sentinel which was published by the Texas Dist. of the UPC and Bro. Murray Burr was editor. I don't remember for sure if that's where it was or who was the author. Bro. Price is young and young in the Lord. He has lots of learning to do. Meanwhile, when he comes off strong and narrow minded, just let some of it roll off your back. If you feel secure in the Lord and in your beliefs, you don't have to defend yourself or fight back all the time.

Bro. Price,
I'm not talking behind your back. This is posted publicly so you can read it. I'm not judging you. I do believe you really Love the Lord. I just think you should show more love and respect for those who differ with you. We are all brothers and sisters here. We can disagree without being disagreeable and we can object without being objectionable.

Grant is hanging out with Jason, along with Steve and Brian (and their tech van).