Posted: 12/19/2007 7:39:55 PM EDT
| I started the topic on the Mormon Q&A. As I posted later in the thread, I had no intention to criticize the Mormon faith. I was merely criticizing the way they answered the interview questions. There are several Mormon members on ARFcom, and I want to assure them I had no intentions of offending them, or creating an opportunity for them to be offended. Sorry. |
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Hey don't worry about it, most topics posted don't go the way you think they will. I posted an article about getting receipts checked on the way out of Best Buy, "I think", and it turned into a LEO bashing fest, not the intent of my post at all. Politics, Religion, cops, and my wife or girl friend is cheating on me threads, seem to take on a life of their own, no matter what the OP intended. |
No problem. Your intent was fairly clear. And we're used to some of the members here siezing every opportunity to bash our religion. Most of us have served missions and have been told a lot worse by a lot better people.
It's tremendously ironic that - - the phrase 'he who has ears to hear, let him hear' is repeated quite often in the OT and NT. There is a deep message in that simple phrase. - Jesus taught in parables all the time. He did this to protect the people from what they were not prepared to hear, to protect things that were sacred (not secret), and to motivate them to seek further. He could have simply given away the whole farm all at once, but that's not His way. So today, when there may be more to tell but it's not appropriate to do so, people still don't get it. Back then they tried to shut Him down because they completely failed to grasp what He was teaching. Don't fall into the same old trap. In reality the answers were exactly appropriate for the audience. If you want to know more, there are plenty of ways to find out. It won't be handed to you on a platter, though. It never has been. -grommet |