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Brothers, what do you expect? The World, the Flesh, and the Devil to play nice and above board when their tare planting, Synagogue of Satan creating operations are under attack? Or the proponents of the truth to be entirely perfect this side of glory? When has that EVER been the case? We should expect the process of responding to any serious error or heresy to be almost as awful in this fallen world of ours, our three great enemies will ensure it will be such, but that doesn't mean for a moment we should stop doing the right thing! Act with integrity, be gentle and winsome whenever you can, but for heaven's sake, "Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like MEN, be strong."
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I expect all those who profess Christ to stand up and be counted. The church at Ephesus was commended by Christ for farroting out false teachers and standing up for the truth. Should we not do the same? Is not the very Gospel at stake? I have seen up close and personal what happens to a congregation when FV/NPP comes in and it isn't pretty. In fact I would say that the vast majority of the blog comments about FV are rather tame. In fact tamer that they should be.
Unfortunately the language of Calvin or Luther is nowadays considered "unloving" and not representative of "Christian virtue". I have no doubt what kind of scathing tract would be penned by Calvin against some of the FV proponents, and rightly so. In fact I would hazard to guess that Calvin would have no problem saying it to their face!
But I do find the personal attack against Bob Mattes way out of line and that Mr. Lawyer would not have had the nerve to say it to his face. But on a blog?? there seems to be no problem.