Instead of receiving the Savior, you apparently have received a "savior complex."
you are really milking this angle, aren't you? you have written maybe 10 open accusations against me on this board in the past 24 hours, claiming that i have never been saved, and never believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, and made many ugly conclusions about my character as a result. these claims only prove what a fool you are to those who actually know me. what is your basis for this? simply that from the time you started making these wild accusations, i had all of an hour to produce my entire spiritual biography for you to paw through, otherwise i was conceeding the point?
i recieved the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal savior when i was five years old. i remember it clearly. i was babtised when i was 13 years old. from the time i was a small child, the one overarching goal of my life was to serve God - it was
all i ever wanted, more then life itself. there was
nothing i would not sacrifice for this noble calling. it was all the meaning in my life. those of you who knew me know how seriously and deeply i was committed. as a result, some of you may even have a general sense of how painful it has been for me to be forced to question what was for so long the most basic definition of my existence to me. what threw everything into question for me was the inconsistency and hypocrisy i witnessed in the assembly.
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only thing i will say about the current state of my faith is that i am no longer sure what to believe in. i have a lot of painful soul-searching i am in the middle of. i deeply respect the christian faith. i am healing from third-degree burns and i don't feel like exposing them to a bonfire. i finally am exposing them, but not for your sake, john. i am saying these things so that those who don't know any better then to be misled by john's cruel behavior won't be.
You are ACTUALLY telling my brothers and sisters YOU are their SAVIOR from me, a ministering brother who is a servant of Jesus Christ.
who is served by your treatment of me, and others you disagree with? certainly not Jesus Christ. you say intentionally hurtful things in order to try and win arguements that you could not win by strength of mind alone. you attempt to confuse the issue by attacking the person you are debating with, rather then presenting your side of the argument. this is a common logical fallacy (obviously the most horrible person in the world
could present a valid counterpoint), but what makes you so much worse than the typical illogical debater is how vicious you become in your attempts to hurt and discredit people. you enjoy it.
Two of the men you are mocking have gone to mission fields in distant lands. The other is a courageous Christian, even though he's wrong to associate with you while he attempts to conduct ministry.
first of all, since when have you had a problem with mocking?
second, lots of different people go into the mission field, such as george geftakys.
third, even though people who do not deserve respect do go into the mission field, i do instinctively respect those who go because in the vast majority of them it shows a sincerity of committment that i can strongly identify with.
fourth, i wasn't mocking them. i was communicating how absurd this situation is becoming. then again, once you fall down the rabbit hole, who knows how far you may go...?
Brent has declared publicly that he is not going to relieve you as the web site admin. That means you will need to leave for some other reason. I know you think you are going to stand and fight and stay, but you are going.
this balatant threat and open declaration that you are going to try and run me off the boards is an open violation of your user agreement. however, since brent is the one who escorted you back onto this website, i feel my hand are tied in this matter and i defer to his judgement of when you have crossed enough lines to be curtailed. i still would not yet ban you, because everyone deserves a chance to change their ways.
I am going to pray, as soon as I post this message, that you are removed as the Web Site Admin here. I will ask the Lord to do this quickly, so that He can get glory over your boastings, and rescue Brent and others from you.
what boastings are you talking about? i have said nothing against god or christianity. don't try to make this into a holy war. all the things you have said about me are a direct result of my challenging your position on spousal abuse. you quit defending your position and focused on trying to run me off the boards.
others are praying i remain as admin. you will all get an answer - one or the other will happen.
if brent ever wants me to step down as admin, he wouldn't need to boot me. i wouldn't be trying to hack back into the website, and i wouldn't start setting myself up under assumed names, as you did. all i would need from him is a simple request to stop being an admin. done, and no hard feeling. but until that comes from him, i will do the best job i can as an admin.
Ordinarily, I would not make this public declaration. It may seem to some to test God in an unsavory way, opening Him and me, his servant, to more of your mockings. I am not worried in this case. He will deliver me from the shame that you, the cacklers that join you, and the demons who teach them desire to bring upon me, and relieve me of this burden of constantly having to correct your flood of blatant lies and half-truths.
and yet you did make a public declaration. why exactly?
i am not cackling. this is the saddest and most distasteful job i have faced since joining this project.
"flood of lies..."?? a flood would indicate i am posting at an amazingly high rate, yet you post easily twice as much as i do in direct response to me, and in open attacks on me. i simply don't have as much time as you do to waste in this necesary silliness.
what lies have i told, specifically? and don't say the best lies contain some truth, and leave it at that. this is another one of john's famous innuendos. if you cannot identify lies in what i have written, then all charges must be dropped and a bigger man than yourself would aplogize for slandering me.
I thought you should know this in advance, so that, when it happens, you will be able to attribute your folly where it belongs, repent from your shameful arrogance, and receive the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior.
thats so thoughtful of you, john. but don't you think you are reading a bit too much into a mere message board? you are setting yourself up, all over what? a discussion about how to handle situations of spousal abuse? yeah, i still think they should be reported to the authorities.
Some here know you have not received the Lord Jesus Christ, but attribute it to George’s folly. I am not among them. The Bible says you have not believed in Him because you love darkness rather than light because your deeds are evil.
and yet another of john's now-famous innuendos. what deeds have i done that are evil, exactly, john? argue with you?
i am wasting too much time on this nonsense. i hope you get my point across for me soon. i wonder how much more it will actually take?
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