We need a good topic to fight over.

ALAYMAN said:
<Stepping out of the persona of antagonist now>

I assume you cleverly added this post in the vein of a FFF contrarian, but there's a boatload of nuanced truth in what you wrote. Many people throw out terms of derision as pejoratives, and the definition of legalist is very much a shifting target to nail down (though in the context of evangelical Christianity I think we could arrive at a decent generally agreed upon definition on the FFF, but maybe not 😆). So, good one Gringo.
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Well SHOOT!!

I was trying to start a fight like the op said . . . Shoot (LOL)

Y'all leave my Wagner alone! As the forum nerd, I love music like that and Chopin and the rest.
 
Gringo said:
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Well SHOOT!!

I was trying to start a fight like the op said . . . Shoot (LOL)

Y'all leave my Wagner alone! As the forum nerd, I love music like that and Chopin and the rest.
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Apologies for the long delay in responding Gringo.....


Gone chopin. Bach in a minuet



😋
 
Legalists and progressives are two peas in a pod. Radicals seeking to impose their puritanical views on everyone else and use shame and judgment against those who disagree with them.
 
subllibrm said:
Legalists and progressives are two peas in a pod. Radicals seeking to impose their puritanical views on everyone else and use shame and judgment against those who disagree with them.
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You're wrong, and a tender ninny.
 
subllibrm said:
Legalists and progressives are two peas in a pod. Radicals seeking to impose their puritanical views on everyone else and use shame and judgment against those who disagree with them.
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I've been calling progressives "scribes and Pharisees" for years. Especially in recent years where "loving your neighbour" and whatnot became expressly tied to where you wore a mask and how many booster shots you had. Neither of which I opposed, but I'm not going to be lectured to, especially about public health, by the same people who brought us legal weed and got PTSD because some truckers honked their horns downtown.
 
subllibrm said:
Legalists and progressives are two peas in a pod. Radicals seeking to impose their puritanical views on everyone else and use shame and judgment against those who disagree with them.
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There is some truth to that.
However, legalists don't have to power to punish us if we fail to conform to their idiocy....Progressives do.
 
Ransom said:
I've been calling progressives "scribes and Pharisees" for years. Especially in recent years where "loving your neighbour" and whatnot became expressly tied to where you wore a mask and how many booster shots you had. Neither of which I opposed, but I'm not going to be lectured to, especially about public health, by the same people who brought us legal weed and got PTSD because some truckers honked their horns downtown.
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What a misnomer the word "progressive" is.

It's just a synonym for "foolish person with their head up their . . . "

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Gringo said:
What a misnomer the word "progressive" is.

It's just a synonym for "foolish person with their head up their . . . "
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To paraphrase something C. S. Lewis wrote, "progressive" means moving toward something better, and if society makes a wrong turn, the most progressive person is the first one to turn back.
 
Gringo said:
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A legalist is simply someone who takes a certain bible verse more seriously than you do.
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Interesting interpretation.
You are partially correct. A legalist is more closely one who takes any secondary biblical teaching and takes it more seriously, as in making it to be a central tenet of the faith.

Or someone who takes an application of a general truth, maybe even a personal application that only really applies to them, and turns it into a test for Christian maturity or even salvation.
 
Bob Jones V said:
Interesting interpretation.
You are partially correct. A legalist is more closely one who takes any secondary biblical teaching and takes it more seriously, as in making it to be a central tenet of the faith.

Or someone who takes an application of a general truth, maybe even a personal application that only really applies to them, and turns it into a test for Christian maturity or even salvation.
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don;t look now but i think you just re-defined a calvinist as a legalist..... ... ..things they can;t do themselves are believed impossible for everyone.... and things they can;t imagine become impossible for God..... 🤔 ;)

..... the legality of forcing an ominopent God into the narrow confines of finite human logic.....
 
what we really need here is lightsabers....
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would love to stay and play..... but we are changing front wheel bearings out on the same old
willys m38a1 jeep today..... we could always fight about the best way to do that tomorrow...:cool:
...i;m sure i;ll know a lot more about it by this evening... :sneaky:
 
If you don’t run a bus ministry you’re heartless compromisers.
 
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