Thank you for your concern, brother. I don't regard everything that @CS1 said to be invalid. Neither do I believe that he is willing to allow what I am led to share to be done without the contentious effect that my words incite in him. Perhaps more importantly I don't hold him to be a pharisee either. Sure he doesn't like being cited and then corrected - albeit that my corrections are only in a semblance of the cogency of the claim being made by him when he asserts something and then when shown that he is misrepresenting the person he is supposedly quoting - he gets somewhat rattled. No big deal really. He also knows that I don't yield to any misdirection when what I have shared is being misunderstood - and neither do I offer a simple explanation to what I am saying - that is misunderstood - yet am clearly capable of keeping the meaning live when others want it killed stone dead.
Albeit he would no doubt feel that I am saying something rather poor and, therefore, needs correcting or challenging. I believe that he is keen on evangelism and so understandably what I have shared here does predicate to another meaning that he senses and rightly has pointed out even in this thread. I simply chose to ignore those facts because to engage with them would indeed have me at odds with a man who is blind to a spiritual reality - or else has been injured by it - and so in his calling [preference] for evangelising the lost - he refuses the rather spectacular meaning that the new forum member gave in post @#96. Or at least he would refuse my answer to her post. He would no doubt say that the very act of preaching the Gospel is the power of God and it does not require perfection to be sufficient in it. And, were that his claim - he has proven that he is not in fact a Pharisee.
I may well get frustrated with some brethren - but that does not mean that I cannot see their points that are valid. In this brother's case he made them some way back in the thread. Perhaps he would like to remake them. Then at least they can remain visible.
Albeit he would no doubt feel that I am saying something rather poor and, therefore, needs correcting or challenging. I believe that he is keen on evangelism and so understandably what I have shared here does predicate to another meaning that he senses and rightly has pointed out even in this thread. I simply chose to ignore those facts because to engage with them would indeed have me at odds with a man who is blind to a spiritual reality - or else has been injured by it - and so in his calling [preference] for evangelising the lost - he refuses the rather spectacular meaning that the new forum member gave in post @#96. Or at least he would refuse my answer to her post. He would no doubt say that the very act of preaching the Gospel is the power of God and it does not require perfection to be sufficient in it. And, were that his claim - he has proven that he is not in fact a Pharisee.
I may well get frustrated with some brethren - but that does not mean that I cannot see their points that are valid. In this brother's case he made them some way back in the thread. Perhaps he would like to remake them. Then at least they can remain visible.
Blind or injured, both are tragedies when the condition insists it is to be preferred over sound truth.