Hopefully, we will be in touch from time to time. I think your presense in this forum has been good. I regret that you feel the need to solve the problem in this way. I do understand, however.
Grace to you
John Smithson
In a message dated 7/28/2004 6:21:31 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This will be my last post to TT. I've had fun and learned from you all. I will miss you very much: you are family. I am not upset, nor am I shaken. I do not believe my "premises" are wrong or that I am "barking up the wrong tree," as is frequently the charge -- I would not be advocating these things if I did. Neither do I expect that others will always accept or agree with me, and so I am not disillusioned when they don't. No, the reason I'm leaving is this: I do not want to be a stumbling block, and that is what I have become. I can't say a word without it being spun and attacked. To stir up that much angst in a fellow believer, is not good. The constant strife that we have to endure because of it, is not good either, not for any of us. It is better for us all that I just leave. Paul writes, "If your [sister] is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died." I know that it is not my "food" that is the issue here; it's something much bigger -- but the admonition stands nonetheless: I do not feel right about what I'm doing to my sister. Is this not what Paul has in mind when he writes, "Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil"? I think so.
