[TwylaFox]

Re: Greetings and salutations

I also hope you realise that in the passage you quoted, Jesus is talking about good deeds done to "the least of these my brethren" -- that is to say, fellow Christians, not the unwashed masses.

Seems to me that we are meant to treat ALL of God's creations as His - not just the ones WE deem worthy of it.

but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean. Acts 10:28

All are equal before God, and none but Him has the authority to pass any judgments claiming otherwise.

Well, they claim to be (1 Tim 1:1; 2 Tim 1:1; Tit 1:1). There's a serious problem with the authority of Scripture if Paul did not write those epistles.

Yes, there is.

Paul's ministry ended somewhere around 65AD, yet Timothy and Titus spend a great deal of time railing against then-current Gnosticism - which didn't even arise until around 150AD and didn't attain any sort of prominence until after 200AD. The earliest mention of Gnosticism anywhere else comes from the writings of Irenaeus around 180AD - still more than a century beyond the time of the Apostle Paul.

By the end of the twentieth century New Testament scholarship was virtually unanimous in affirming that the Pastoral Epistles were written some time after Paul's death.
~ Collins, Rev Raymond F. 1 & 2 Timothy and Titus: A Commentary. Westminster John Knox Press. 2004. ISBN 0-664-22247-1

One of the greatest ironies of history, is that many Protestant Christian churches today embrace the King James Bible exclusively as the “only” legitimate English language translation… yet it is not even a Protestant translation! It was printed to compete with the Protestant Geneva Bible, by authorities who throughout most of history were hostile to Protestants… and killed them. While many Protestants are quick to assign the full blame of persecution to the Roman Catholic Church, it should be noted that even after England broke from Roman Catholicism in the 1500’s, the Church of England (The Anglican Church) continued to persecute Protestants throughout the 1600’s.

BTW - Such a wonderful display of Christian fellowship you've been displaying... altering my signature and profile picture to suit your own aims... calling me a "hatemonger" for knowing God's scripture well... "insolent backsass" despite having been nothing but civil throughout...

[Mary Etheldreda]

Re: Greetings and salutations

BTW - Such a wonderful display of Christian fellowship you've been displaying... altering my signature and profile picture to suit your own aims... calling me a "hatemonger" for knowing God's scripture well... "insolent backsass" despite having been nothing but civil throughout...

People aren't hatemongers for knowing the Holy Bible. That's just silly!



You just happen to be arrogant, egotistical, argumentative, and an all around angry contrarian. I think you just have a problem with the fact that God didn't write the Holy Bible from a 21st century feminist point of view. The sooner you can lay down your own perceived notion of justice and adopt the LORD's, the sooner you will find peace.