[Church_of_Christ] Re: The Melting Pot
Ed,
I responded to the following comment in another post, but I wanted to ask you a totally different question here.
you said:
ED wrote: It is an insult and disrespect of previous generations to claim that 200 years of Restoration scholarship is based on dishonesty. To suggest that those great men, who cannot defend themselves having moved on to their rewards, were dishonest is a thing too mean for me!!!
Ray: Why is it insulting and disrespectful to call someone dishonest?
I'm not making a case here that they were or weren't. I'm asking about the principle. It seems to me that in religious discussions, it is critical to be as blunt, explicit, and realistic as we possibly can in all of our issues. Examining church history and the lives of men before us requires that we are honest about them to the extent that we address their intellectual honesty as well.
By the way, Ed, since you would obviously disagree with the denominations, you would have to admit that you consider them DISHONEST in their approach. If they had been HONEST, they would come to the same conclusions that the Restoration movement has. Including you.
If it is too mean for you to call the restoration movement fathers dishonest, then you have to confess that Luther, Calvin, Augustine, plus all the Popes and Joseph Smith and Charles Russell, etc etc etc etc were all just as honest as you are.
So, there you go.
Ray
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