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You are not the only one. This reminds me of the song, "You're so vain I bet you think this song is about you."

But I will say you are the POSTER BOY for this error here on baptistboard.

If you could just apply this to yourself, there'd be hope for you. But you think you have this corn pone brilliance and that God himself speaks to you. This is what has caused you to be so invincibly and dangerously ignorant for so many years.

You think college is a bad thing because SOME colleges are bad. It is this kind of simple-mindedness that blinds you.

God also gave us gifted teachers to help us understand the Scriptures.

He also gave the Scriptures in GREEK and HEBREW. Do you know Greek and Hebrew? Because the unlearned men you often reference from the New Testament were FLUENT in Greek and Hebrew.

He also gave the Scriptures in a particular historical context? Can you get that context without extrabiblical sources?

He also did not hammer out the great doctrines of the Bible like the Trinity IN THE BIBLE. He left the material there for men to work out for the next three hundred years.

If he had hammered out hypostasis, the Trinity, responsibility and Sovereignty, etc... IN THE BIBLE no one could carry a copy of it. It would be too voluminous.

Winman, your pride in this corn pone wisdom you think you have far exceeds the pride of any young seminarian on earth.

But you are too proud to see how proud you are.

 

Are you saying that we should NOT open ourselves up unto the members of baptistboard?

Are you saying that we should not ever speak of ourselves on baptistboard and that if we do we are "vain"??

Seriously?

 

No sir. You interpret the Scripture in any way that suits you and you do not let people smarter than you HELP you think.

I am not a hyper-calvinist. But you don't know what that is so there's no point in me trying to help you understand the difference. You can't be taught.

You LITERALLY believe that God can relinquish his power and knowledge. You LITERALLY believe that God did his best to beat Jacob in a wrestling match and just couldn't pull it off.

You are THE MOST DANGEROUS type of Christian on earth.

Yes. Simple-mindedness.

Since hippies run many colleges ALL colleges are bad.

Ridiculously ignorant.

And many of them correct error like the severe error you so often posit.

They agree for the most part. That's how we got the King James Bible and all other versions.

I didn't say that a person did.

Not in theology. Anybody on baptistboard would obliterate you. I promise.

It was not a Bible college that hammered out the doctrine of the Trinity.

And you don't even get to use the TERM Trinity because you despise the process that created that term.

And the one verse you supply is NOT a comprehensive teaching on the Trinity.

You see, you deflect. You are invincibly arrogant.

 

Winman, you think God speaks to you.

You think you don't need help from the body of Christ past and present.

You think because Peter was unlearned that it is ok for all theologians to be unlearned. But you fail to understand that one needs a seminary education just to get CLOSE to Peter's knowledge of Greek, Hebrew, Theology and historical backgrounds of New Testament books.

This ignorance leads you to say things that are TERRIBLE.

And you just can't say that I only say that because you are non-cal. I have tremendous respect for the opinions of many non-cals. I demonstrate that on this very site.

It is not because you are not a Calvinist that I say this. It is because you are dangerous to yourself and ANYBODY who might take you seriously.

You are dangerous BECAUSE you think God tells you in your heart what the Scripture means.

You are dangerous because you do not understand what ALMOST EVERY OTHER PERSON ON BAPTISTBOARD UNDERSTANDS: that God gave us teachers for a reason. That tremendous extrabiblical study is required just to get CLOSE to where the Early Church was in their knowledge of original languages, theological issues and historical contexts.

But your ignorance is not what makes you dangerous. It is this amazing arrogance that drives you to speak with the authority of a scholar.

If anybody takes you seriously, and I am sure some people in your family or church do, you are going to lead them astray TERRIBLY.

 

The important point is that I have not MISREPRESENTED you.

I am not saying you believe things that you do not believe.

You ADMIT to believing these things.

 

Who said I was afraid of you?

I am concerned about anyone who takes you seriously. Romans 16 speaks of those who "deceive the hearts of the simple." Those are the people I am afraid for.

Both of those statements are PATENTLY false. You copy and paste Scripture with little to NO exegesis with NO concern for immediate context, book context, historical context and how the passage fits into the context of the whole of Scripture.

People call you on this ALL OF THE TIME.

No I have not. I criticize you for conveniently using the surface meaning of a verse pulled out of context to suit your purposes.

That is what you do. And you do this more than anybody I have ever SEEN.

When a passage on its surface teaches something contrary to what you believe ALL OF THE SUDDEN you cry "FIGURATIVE!!! HYPERBOLE!!!" When anyone does that with any passage you provide you play this "I JUST BELIEVE THE BIBLE!" card.

It is TERRIBLE the way you do this.

Who doesn't? But I asked you a few days ago if that meant to you that God was trying to beat Jacob in that wrestling match and just couldn't and you answered "YES".

I have never said that. I said many scriptures require context. Taking them out of their context and using them for what you make them appear to say outside of their context is BY NO MEANS saying what the Scripture says.