I’m think about dumping this forum for a while

@divegeester said
You sometimes post angry when you’ve been drinking, others have spotted it too. Even for you your style becomes abrupt, clipped, full of non sequiturs and angry barbs.

Today you’re just being your usual self.

@divegeester said
“Don’t toe the line with scripture”

Just listen to yourself man.

@josephw said
It's the moons fault. 🤣

@kellyjay said
Could you show me where I called you a tare?

@josephw said
"...by the grace of God I am what I am:".

@divegeester said
A blowhard?

@divegeester

You're really good at ad hominem.

Is there a chance you can actually stay on topic and produce a substantive post?

@divegeester

Here's an example of the shallowness and spurious nature of your line of reasoning:

You posted this -

"Assertion 1)
Jesus saves the few, not the many

Evidence 1) Matt 7:14
“Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”

You got it backwards. The assertion is, as Jesus said, that few find it - "it" being life.

A corollary of John 3:16 where Jesus also said, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

Notice the qualifier for not "perishing". "Belief".

Pretty simple to understand don't you think?

The assertion is that one can have "life" upon "belief", that "few find it", that "believing" saves from "perishing", and also the converse of not "finding it" and not "believing" is "perishing" or in the "broad way" that leads to "destruction".

Oddly enough, but apparently beyond you mental grasp, is that the assertion follows after the evidence.

I think that after reading the above you should realize the futility of you argument, that your understanding of what the scriptures say is inverted, that you need to actually read the Bible and consider the exact wording.

Then maybe you won't make yourself look so biblically ignorant and incompetent, and make such erroneous inferences and assertions.

@josephw said
@divegeester

Here's an example of the shallowness and spurious nature of your line of reasoning:

You posted this -

"Assertion 1)
Jesus saves the few, not the many

Evidence 1) Matt 7:14
“Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”

You got it backwards. The assertion is, as Jesus said, that fe ...[text shortened]... self look so biblically ignorant and incompetent, and make such erroneous inferences and assertions.

@divegeester said
I don’t see how any of this refutes what my OP asserts.

For example, I am indeed calling out that only a few find the way, find the life. You realise that the “way” is a metaphor for life? We are saying the same thing.

@josephw said
"...by the grace of God I am what I am:"

@divegeester said

By the way the horizon is at least 3 miles away at sea level at standing height.

@kevin-eleven said
Popeye the Sailor Man?

@kevin-eleven said
@josephw is obviously crouching down next to his dog, therefore not at standing height.

@divegeester said
I already have in a previous thread.

Tell me you don’t remember me doing that?