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It is relevant to those of us who share a Christian worldview. Your actions will prove whether showing the world that Trinity is a cult is of greater importance than obedience to the words of Christ. (which is your choice) [b:78b34f657f]The validity of your position will be revealed to Christians at least, if you are willing to be accountable as you have called Ole Anthony to be.[/b:78b34f657f] Many of your claims have been on the basis that he is not living up to the Christian values he espouses to. So while this issue may not be relevant to everyone reading this forum, it will be to those with a Christian worldview.(those of us who have done the majority of the posting here express a Christian faith)
What does that mean, "a Christian worldview"? Seems to me that there as many "Christian worldviews" as there are Christians, Nathan! All that [i:78b34f657f]really[/i:78b34f657f] means is "Nathan's worldview" or "Jackie's worldview". If you want to talk about the Scriptures, Mr. Nathan definer-and-arbiter-of-the-Christian-worldview, I think of Matthew 7:1-6. Jesus is telling us how we should deal with out brothers, right? Well, my (our) position is that Ole IS NOT a brother, he is one of the "ravening wolves" that Jesus mentions is verse 15. Then He tells us how we can discern the brethren form the wolves: by their fruits. So not everybody who comes claiming "Lord, Lord" is a true brother. Jesus is constantly exhorting us to exercise discernment in distinguishing the "sheep" from the "wolves". Ole is a wolf, not a sheep, and therefore is to be dealt with as such, not as one would approach a brother. Ole is not a brother, so therefore Matthew 18 does not apply in this circumstance.