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Originally Posted by Edward Anglin
How does saying someone's beliefs (which btw, are very mainstream Oneness Pentecostal) are "ridiculous" help the situation. You claim to love tolerance and open debate, and then you stoop to calling someone else's belief "ridiculous?" Does not compute. 
Are we tolerant or not?
I have learned that intolerance is not confined to conservatives. Liberals are very maniacally mean-spirited and intolerant sometimes. No reference to you, of course. |
I apologize if I've offended you with my choice of words, but frankly, I don't care if beliefs are "mainstream Pentecostal" or not, of they're not "mainstream Bible" even Jesus Himself didn't have much tolerance for them.
I'll quote Him directly:
Matthew 15
1Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,
2Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
3But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
8This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
As I've mentioned many times, I do not criticize anyone for their personal beliefs, convictions, standards, traditions, whatever you want to call it.
Where I do become very intolerant, just as Jesus did, is when they "make those things doctrine" and condemn me to hell for not following their own belief system.
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