How is what you just expressed any different? You make an argument here based on YOUR OWN AUTHORITY.
What you say about me are lies. How do you feel about yourself speaking lies? I only speak of what is in the Bible.
We are supposed to believe that you are a reasoned scholar and yet you do not debate as a reasoned scholar, but rather as one who is, in a fundamentalstic way, already convinced of your own truth as you see it.
Where did I ever call myself a scholar? You cannot stop yourself from continuing to spread lies. As for me being convinced of the truth, of course I am. You try to make confidence in the Truth something bad, to your own disgrace.
Sure you do, as long as they do not go against "your truth." And, we are learning more about you with every post.
I only speak God’s truth. You however, you speak your own truth, which can be any lie, just like the lies you say about me. You look up old and new scholars and pronounce them as truth teachers, yet you do not even check with the Word of God. If you did check with the Word of God, then you would know that it is not my truth but God’s truth that I speak.
As a point of debate, many of us here on the board are well-read men.
You sure are a well-read man. Do you know what a slanderer is? Do you know what a hypocrite is? You have slandered me here, and you also judge me of doing the very things you yourself do.
I've read somewhere around 10,000 + books and compared the writings of such to the Scriptures. While I find all sorts of arguments made in all those books, the one thing I don't often find is dogmatic statements such as the ones you are making here on the board. I do find that scholars will lay out someone else's opinion or doctrine FAIRLY as they have expressed it themselves, then on a point-by-point basis examine that doctrine or opinion and compare it with their own. Rare indeed are the true scholars who just blast someone else out of the water wholesale -- especially when that "someone" has been as effective in the church as a man like Calvin, Spurgeon, Piper, etc.
Oh, like the way you are trying to blast me out of the water wholesale. Go back and read about what a hypocrite is. I see you love Calvin, Spurgeon, and Piper, but I love the Word of God.
You have obviously not completely (or at all) read Calvin himself, but by tone of your argument and your vociferous hatred for all things Calvin, demonstrate that you have in fact only read one side of Calvin's history and that not even the truthful side. I can only offer that you go back and do some remedial work to learn the whole history and truth of the matter, but alas, I also (likely am right) fear that you will not, for you already have your mind made up by whomever is preaching this message of hatred into you.
I could not care less what you think of me personally. Stop making posts to me with your personal rants of what you think of me. Show me what I say that is wrong scripturally, otherwise back off of the personal comments with no truth.
They will... I also recall that Jesus said, (Mat 5:22) But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
You are the one who is hateful to me. I take my time to try to show the truth, yet you call me hateful for this. You prove you cannot make a righteous judgment. You want me to put little smileys next to my posts. Would this make you feel better?
You claim to be a follower of Scripture alone, and yet you say to your brothers, "Raca!"
You are a liar, a slanderer, and a hypocrite. You should repent soon for this lie.
I believe that you think you have cause, and yet you have yet to realize all the good that Calvin did as a part of his life, dedicated to serving the Lord and preaching the gospel to the Lord's people. Raising one's voice against a servant of the Lord is always a risky proposition, for YOU become the judge instead of allowing God to judge.
You defend a murderer, John Calvin, yet you falsely judge me. You do what your father John Calvin did.
We are supposed to correct each other, because of love. We are supposed to demand each other not to teach false doctrine. Yet, you lie and say I hate and tell my brother "Raca." 1 Timothy 1:3-4 As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to teach false doctrines any longer…
You have shown much evil today in how you spoke to me.