Man up Jimmy. Before anything, we are men.
Yes you will. Unless you use another forum feature called "ignore" which I suggest you use. Also make a request of all the four other posters of this forum to not quote anything where I refer to you.
alloc is usually short for allocation. So, I am a smart allocation? Ok.
RUDE?!?
Go far enough to get banned? Jimbo, banning is predicated by filing a complaint against specific posts. You report the post, it is then up to the administration to 86 the offender. Everytime I get n a hair pulling contest with one off you lovely ladies it seems that focus is more on what they perceive me to be doing.
Because THEY? Jim, now your problem is with the admins? It is their fault? Listen, the admins are reading every single post on these threads. It would therefore be akin to having a second or third job. Maybe you should start a forum where everyone holds the same opinion and beliefs as you do. Anytime you get someone with a strong opposing view you can burn them at the stake and then ban them forever. Still you will find that this forum is basically self moderating and that the ignore feature is employed to remove those you believe to be haters.
No. I suggest you use the ignore feature. You will find that to be way more effective. You will then be able to find the echos you most desperately need.
You just have an interest to dictate to what is going on the platform. You see it is quite simple. Church buildings may have a stage area which is called a platform. Yet, it isn't used for our entertainment. It is used to rely ecclesiastical messages to those who are willing and wanting to hear those messages. Xmas tree, smooth faces, collared white shirts with black ties, and for the women long dresses with appropriate length sleeves. All dictated from the primary source, the people. Elders, and congregants. All in flowing agreement with one another. So, I really have no right to make a call on what they are doing. There is a huge Apostolic Jesus name church which has a amazingly large golden angel holding a trumpet. This item is a fixed smack dab in the middle of the platform. While I hold my own opinions on this image, it is of their choosing, because "they" really like it. From pastor to pew, they like what is going on there. If someone has a problem to the degree of disharmony with the group, they can easily leave. If they have a problem with the golden thing and want to stay with their beloved ministry and church family. Then they can but ponder these things in their heart, and do their best to be at peace with the church family.
Do you not like short answers? The understanding is that the church family and ministers want it. That is the reason why we have more churches, denominations, schisms and religions then you can shake a stick at. Hence the reason, why people break off into groups, they gravitate to those of like precious agreement. That is all. So, my question to you would be can people still hear the gospel message and get baptized in Jesus name, receive the Holy Ghost with the initial evidence of speaking in other tongues? With huge angels, on the platform? With giant Dagon bushes standing clear up to the cathedral ceiling? With lighted Catholic Nativity scene right above the baptismal tank? I know, I know, some would freeze in horror, but some sincere soul seeking God will get the Holy Ghost. Then the Lord (if the person is willing) will lead the sincere individual into all truth.
Holy place? Temple? You are mixing ideas into the above paragraph. You are saying that there are some who believe the platform as a holy place, and therefore they are desecrating it with these Catholic symbols? Hypothetical situations really have many levels to consider. Yet, the short answer to be is that these people don't see it exactly as you or I may see it. Therefore according to our own convictions concerning these issues we can make a choice. If this forum teaches us anything it's that people will always gravitate to groups holding the same opinions.
Because the church family wants to have it up there.
I know the answer is too simple for you, but the Catholic/Lutheran symbols are there, because the church family wants it there. I know what I believe concerning the whole whoopdedoo on the Catholic Mass, but I have learned that me beating an ecclesiastical dead horse when the group is so HAPPY to do it. I just need to go my way, and be at peace that they made their decision. Maybe one day they may change, but that change won't come unless they are wanting it.
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