Subject: Harsh Treatment? |
Bible Note: Dear Inquisitor, I marvel that this discussion -- in a forum dedicated to the the study of the Word -- should persist in the promotion of some kind of political correctness. God invented labels before there were people (Genesis 1:5). Since our every word will be judged (Matthew 12:36), is it any wonder that "people don't like labels" (sic). (See John 3:19) "The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from 'controversial' matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life. In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight." --J. Gresham Machen Let's have done with this subject. We need to be more concerned with saying things as correctly as possible (Ephesians 4:29), than with how people will feel about what is said. It is the truth that sets us free -- not the warm-fuzzies we create in our hearers. In Him, Doc |