When the Pharisees Accused Jesus of Being used by the Devil...

Originally Posted by J-Roc

You know very well that the motive for her starting that "Dear Rhona" thread was to be a beacon of hope and healing to anyone in the community that was looking to find good ideas and words of encouragement.

Yes, that was the motive and there is nothing wrong with that. But her "beacon of hope and healing" is based not in Christ and His word but in a wicked worldly philosopy, i.e. psychology.

The motive of the thread was obvious and so it did not need anyone policing over it. For those that can do without her advice, they can simply move on to the next thread. There are many threads set up with the motive to strike up a debate, bring out the swords and the guns or whatever and that is fine...but this was not one of them.

The problem wasn't with the purpose of the thread, it was that she was offering advice based on a wicked worldly philosophy (psychology). Worldly philosophies or (as Paul put it in 1 Corinthians) "wisdom" has no place in the Church. The only valid source of wisdom is God and His word.

If anyone had a sincere desire to question any particular advice, then it could have been done in a civil and unaggressive manner. Instead, the thugs came in with their daggers and knives and machetes with the sole purpose of cutting deep into her emotions like wimps. And since the theme on AFF the past 3 days have been about analyzing people's personality trait, here is my analysis...these thugs that picked on Rhona are the same clowns who were bullied in school and were made fun of and now are taking a vengeance and looking for retribution. Yeah...a silly analysis, but I figured I'd plug it in.

No one was trying to do anything to Rhoni's emotions. She needs to stop taking attacks on her worldly philosophy as attacks on her personally. She is NOT her worldly philosophy and she is NOT her profession.

BTW, I don't remember who said what in her post and don't know if you were one of them, I just know that there was a collectivity and not just one individual.

Maybe you should go back and read exactly what was said and note the context in which it was said (as well as Rhoni's own comments).

Yes, pathetic is the word that came to my mind too when I saw these cowards doing what they did on her thread.

There is nothing cowardly about challenging false doctrine and worldly philosophies.