AFF: A Summary

[Thumper]

I'm just here for the donuts.

[StillStanding]

I am closer to "Moderate" than I am "Liberal".

That makes me an elevated moderate!

[dixonic2]

<----confused...what's new

[Felicity]

Originally Posted by Pianoman

I am closer to "Moderate" than I am "Liberal".

That makes me an elevated moderate!

It's interesting that although I've always thought of myself as being "moderate" that friends of mine who I considered more conservative than I ...... told me a few weeks ago that they always thought I was quite conservative... even moreso than they were in some ways. LOL. I thought that was quite funny.

Again, so much of this labeling has to do with perspective and where you are on the lib-con scale yourself.

[Fiyahstarter]

Originally Posted by StMark

well I have to admit it does bother me that certain people have branched off
to start little cliques because the rest of us were not good enough.
that's the bottom line and that is my firm opinion on the matter





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And then there are those who branched off because they "got the boot" . . .

[OP_Carl]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

Then, of course, there are those individuals who don't believe anything in the Bible is meant to guide or instruct. Instead they believe that the words written there are suggestions.

They castigate and condemn literalists and fundamentalists as "three-steppers" and "legalists."

You should know that this group loves AFF because it gives them a platform to release years of pent-up frustration on "THE MAN." You know, sort of a bully-puplit? These folks have the whole RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE thing going on.


I have concluded that we need to pray for these folks. We should pray that they find a new love for the literalism of God's Word. That they find an dictionary, look up the word "submission", and decide that they like the ideals that submission employs.

A delightfully witty summary . . . even if you are wrong about just about everything!




j/k

[Rhoni]

Originally Posted by OP_Carl

A delightfully witty summary . . . even if you are wrong about just about everything!




j/k

Well OP, we finally agree on something

[Nahum]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

Then, of course, there are those individuals who don't believe anything in the Bible is meant to guide or instruct. Instead they believe that the words written there are suggestions.

They castigate and condemn literalists and fundamentalists as "three-steppers" and "legalists."

You should know that this group loves AFF because it gives them a platform to release years of pent-up frustration on "THE MAN." You know, sort of a bully-puplit? These folks have the whole RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE thing going on.


I have concluded that we need to pray for these folks. We should pray that they find a new love for the literalism of God's Word. That they find an dictionary, look up the word "submission", and decide that they like the ideals that submission employs.

Originally Posted by OP_Carl

A delightfully witty summary . . . even if you are wrong about just about everything!




j/k

Originally Posted by Rhoni

Well OP, we finally agree on something

She lives!!!!!


Wow, I must have really struck a cord with that post.

[CC1]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

We also have a third group of posters who are neither rabidly conservative or looney-tune liberal.

These are the moderates, and this group is the best and most important social sect of AFF. In short, the moderates are right. For further evidence view the writings of Ferd, RevDWW, revrandy and sometimes even Steven Hoover.

Moderates are the posters who stay here when the two extremes leave because they can't stand each other any longer.

Moderates are Biblical literalists, but they do not believe that religious leaders have the right to impose extraBiblical junk on Pentecostal adherants.

You newbies need to scoot closer to the moderates. They're "ones to ride the river with."

Don't forget that one man's liberal is another man's moderate or conservative!

Your thread does not fairly characterize liberals like myself. I don't take the Bible as "suggestions" and you know it. What I don't take is wild leaps in logic from scripture and misapplication of scriptures to enforce a false corporate legalism. That is a far cry from just taking the bible as "suggestions.

The Bible is quite clear on God's moral law. It is just a shame that Old Time Oneness Pentecostals think a shirt sleeve above an elbow has something to do with God's moral law, etc, etc, etc.

At least be fair with your characterizations.

[Nahum]

Originally Posted by CC1

Don't forget that one man's liberal is another man's moderate or conservative!

Your thread does not fairly characterize liberals like myself. I don't take the Bible as "suggestions" and you know it. What I don't take is wild leaps in logic from scripture and misapplication of scriptures to enforce a false corporate legalism. That is a far cry from just taking the bible as "suggestions.

The Bible is quite clear on God's moral law. It is just a shame that Old Time Oneness Pentecostals think a shirt sleeve above an elbow has something to do with God's moral law, etc, etc, etc.

At least be fair with your characterizations.

But, but, but........why?

Why do I have to be fair?

When did that become a rule, you legalist?

You still love me and you know it!