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Originally posted by SolaScriptura
Quote: Originally posted by WrittenFromUtopia
Anyway, they end up very arrogant towards me...
| Forgive me if I doubt that this is not reciprocated.
Using phrases like "unlawfully ordained" and "schismatic," even if you are sincere in your belief, are quite inflammatory and will not win you a hearing with them.
I realize these words may not sit well, but I have long noticed that you severelly lack in displaying Christian charity. As a result, perhaps you should begin by treating them respectfully as brothers and allowing your passion for your interpretation of the Standards to be tempered by the sobering realization that the Church is much bigger than those denominations that subscribe to the Reformed faith. On this Board, your language, tone and treatment of those with whom you disagree is often quite caustic. If you take that attitude with you out into a group of Christians with whom you disagree, I can all but promise that you will have ZERO postive impact, though you might walk away patting yourself on the back for being such a "good martyr" for the Reformed faith.
Maybe if you treat them with love and respect you may win a hearing with them.
Just my  based upon reading and shaking my head at the spirit manifest in countless of your posts.
[Edited on 10-3-2005 by SolaScriptura]
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Thanks for your concern, but I have in fact never addressed this issue with them nor discussed it in any capacity. In fact, I never approach them on their theological beliefs. They often make mentioning of mine as the butt of jokes in passing, and I simply ignore them or laugh along, depsite how it hurts me. You can believe what you want, based on an internet message board, about me, and hold this anger towards me in your heart. That is between you and the good Lord.