(November 9, 2015 at 10:50 am)Hmmm? Wrote:(November 9, 2015 at 10:33 am)Drich Wrote: So in your intellectual mind, you think it is ok to dishonestly handle what people have said and done, just because you on some level can find offense?/It is ok to be intellectually dishonest if you do not respect an ideology... What about something you do respect? is it ok to be intellectually dishonest about something you do respect and are trying to protect?/do you also lie about things that support your position when you know they are wrong?
Let me ask you this.. When is it mandated that you only tell the truth? when do you check emotion at the door (what you want to be true) and let the simple truth speak for itself?
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through her lie unto his glory; why yet is she also judged as a sinner?
(October 26, 2015 at 4:00 pm)Hmmm? Wrote: (Romans 3:7, Gal 2:9, Acts 15:7)
What you did is no different than what she was trying to do. Your 'question' is answered the same way hers is in Context Context Context.
Romans 3 in context:
7 Someone might say, “When I lie, it really gives God glory, because my lie makes his truth easier to see. So why am I judged a sinner?” 8 It would be the same to say, “We should do evil so that good will come.” Many people criticize us, saying that’s what we teach. They are wrong, and they should be condemned for saying that.
Do you understand this is not a good thing according to the context of Romans 3?
Gal 2:
6 Those men who were considered to be important did not change the Good News message I tell people. (It doesn’t matter to me if they were “important” or not. To God everyone is the same.) 7 But these leaders saw that God had given me a special work, the same as Peter. God gave Peter the work of telling the Good News to the Jews. But God gave me the work of telling the Good News to the non-Jewish people. 8 God gave Peter the power to work as an apostle for the Jewish people. God gave me the power to work as an apostle too, but for those who are not Jews. 9 James, Peter, and John seemed to be the leaders. And they saw that God had given me this special gift of ministry, so they accepted Barnabas and me. They said to us, “We agree that you should go to those who are not Jews, and we will go to the Jews.” 10 They asked us to do only one thing—to remember to help those who are poor. And this was something that I really wanted to do.
Here even in context i have no idea what you could possible be saying, because Paul was only endorsed by the 'leaders'/of the Original 12
acts 15:
6 Then the apostles and the elders gathered to study this problem. 7 After a long debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “My brothers, I am sure you remember what happened in the early days. God chose me from among you to tell the Good News to those who are not Jewish. It was from me that they heard the Good News and believed. 8 God knows everyone, even their thoughts, and he accepted these non-Jewish people. He showed this to us by giving them the Holy Spirit the same as he did to us. 9 To God, those people are not different from us. When they believed, God made their hearts pure. 10 So now, why are you putting a heavy burden[a] around the necks of the non-Jewish followers of Jesus? Are you trying to make God angry? We and our fathers were not able to carry that burden. 11 No, we believe that we and these people will be saved the same way—by the grace of the Lord Jesus.”
Again so what?
It seems in you eagerness to throw out verses you forgot to look them up yourself. Romans 3 only 1/2 way reads in support of what you asked but when framed back in context, context, context we see that it is not a good thing.
