You should couch your critisism in a praise and finish with a praise that.
Someone critiqued me and it bugged me and I figured out why.
It was a give and take away. A was a compliment. B was a compliment, then C negated both A and B.
And I wondered why I was feeling angry.
Too bad this can't be done in private. The Bible has where you are not supposed to rebuke people harshly.
You should couch your critisism in a praise and finish with a praise that.
You do a very good job of trying to use science fiction to make yourself look like a prophet and undermine your supposed faith. Is that better?
Someone critiqued me and it bugged me and I figured out why.
Buzz Buzz. Who could he be talking about??? Hmm . . . You won't hurt my feelings, Chad, if you use my name.
It was a give and take away. A was a compliment. B was a compliment, then C negated both A and B.
I don't remember giving you a compliment on your posts. If I did, I apologize. I, surely, didn't mean it. Please forgive.
And I wondered why I was feeling angry.
You are angry because you don't have responses that are good enough to defend yourself. This is what happens when you support your assertions with vain imagination. Instead of just talking about using the Bible, why don't you actually use it?
Can you, please, explain how any of your posts do any of the following:
1. use strong Biblical support,
2. promote Christ not Chad,
3. encourage others, edify the body, or elucidate Yeshua?
Too bad this can't be done in private. The Bible has where you are not supposed to rebuke people harshly.
You mean like where Yeshua admonished the Pharisees in a public confrontation? Or where Paul admonished members of churches in a public letter? Or where Yeshua admonished the seven churches in a public document? Or where Moses admonished the complainers in front of all the Hebrews? Or when John the Baptist called the Pharisees and Sadducees vipers in front of all those being baptized?
Do you have any examples to support yourself that don't reference Asimov's Guide to the Bible? What verse were you quoting?
You posted publicly; you can take the heat for those posts publicly. BTW, this is the second post I've seen now where you complain publicly about me in a separate thread about public responses to things you posted publicly.
Now, let me, as you asked, finish with a praise:
You did a great job of not interrupting me while I typed.
YOur zeal for the Bilbe is excellent.
However, I think we are gettting into the personal mean unproductive zone.
Think of me as your child.
When I was married we had this thing of brining up a bag of bad things that ever happened.
This is kind of what you did to me on my corprophagic hyrax post.
Instead of looking at my question I raised about the verse you pulled out your bag of stuff.
I hope you don't do this to your siginificant other or you won't have one.
The Bible says love doesn't keep count of wrongs.
Paul had a witch following him around in the book of acts and he had to cast the devil out of her;
Are you responding to the verse and my question, or are you following m e around like a witch on a personal vendetta?
In the little rascals, our gang or whatever you want to call it there was this one episode where they were chaseing each other aaroaund with swords in lines and lines of sheets.
Thats what I feel like. This world church called the net you pop up and instead of writing Z like zoro you go up to a sheet and write R with a sword then we chase each other all over slashing.
One guy even got his pants cut off I think.
It is a fine line I walk here. If I respond in anger to you I am shamed before the world. If I hold it in and don't speak up Then I am not careing about you and your betterment. Thus, to like you I have to bear with and sharpen Iron on Iron.
Jesus Loves you.
Chad.
I think I am going to take a break from the blog and maybe not come back.
It seems illogical to me what bloger Revelation 3:20 is saying, but Paul says submit to others out of reverence for Christ.
Also, I think I have made my point. If JFJ wants to get rid of all my posts that is OK with me.
To me harmony is much more important than winnning and arguement. In the Pastoral epistles Paul tells Timothy the man of God must not argue.
Turn the other cheek, don't resist evil, I think this all applies to this situation even though I am not saying bloger 320 is evil.
I don't know how old 320 is and don't want to get into a wierd situation because this person is too old or too young or something like that.
"Is this good for children" is a question I want to guide my blogging.
It is good 320 has been on my case. I am going to either deleet or at least clean up my other blogs with this in mind.
One last thing. Jesus never singled any individual out publicly for a rebuke. And the things he said to the woman caught in adultery were all encourageing. He let her know He believed she really could go and sin no more.
People on the fringe don't need a hard rebuke because satans plan is to drive them out permanently then kill them with sorrow (2 Cor 2:11).
Rebukeing the leadership of national Israel harshly was ok because 1) He was Jesus 2) the ones being rebuked were not liable to go crawl under a rock somewhere and shrivel up 3) He didn't lambaste an individual publicly
Stay and post. You have as much right to be here as I do. But if you post things that upset people, you have only yourself to blame when they respond.
I love this forum. I love this ministry. I love the people who run it. I think Jans is a fabulous moderator, and I greatly admire Moshe. We have a lot of freedom here at J4J. So when you abuse that freedom and post irresponsibly, I take great offense to that.
This is a community; this is not your personal playground. Join the community. We have friends to spar with, Jews to evangelize, atheists to combat, and blasphemers to show the error of their ways.
I'm not trying to make you feel bad. I want you to get over yourself and join the group. Surely you have something of value to post. For example, your post about the father of modern Zionism being raised Christian. That wasn't a bad post. Back it up with evidence and give us more like that.
Don't create another thread to complain about what I said. Say it here.
I don't want people to missunderstand what I am saying. I am not saying Theodore Herzel was a Christian by any means. I am just raising a question of the benefit of what I saw in one book describe as his upbrining in an at least nominal Christian context as he was not raised Orthodox Jewish.
Going from content to process again.
Peter Senge in a book called the fifth discipline says that we should dialouge and not debate. The illustration he gave to bring out the meaning of the greek words was to see something from different angles rather that a dialogue that is like a ping pong match.
I'm not advocateing a new legalism of hyper niceness, you know, Love is really the rule as paul says in 1 COr 13 that Love is not unseemly.
If I love you and you love me there probably won't be any unseemly comments, and we won't even need Ann Landers or Emilly Post Etiqutue book as a guide.