Pro.10:12 A scoffer does not love one who reprove him; He will not go to the wise.
Pro.10:28 The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, But the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
Pro.26:1-5 Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest, So honor is not fitting for a fool. Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, So a curse without cause does not alight. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, And a rod for the back of fools, Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be like him. Answer a fool as his folly deserves, lest he be wise in his own eyes.
There are times, depending on the circumstances, when we are to answer a fool, especially the mocking sarcastic, come on let's fight, kind of fool.
But some people, with a more tender heart, just don't understand and are trying to make sense out of scriptural truths.
I will never understand how people can say Ray is rambling and unintelligent. I am reading his Free Will series again and I have always been impressed with Rays scholarly work. He appeals to the ordinary person. He doesn't talk down to people. He explains, in easily understood terms, what he believes and know to be true.
This person, claims to have his ammunition to shoot Ray with. I think his ammunition has been used already and it was only a water gun. And he had the gun pointing at himself, so he is the one who got wet.
How can anyone call Ray a coward? He had his name and website out for the whole world to see. He has an e-mail address for people with questions.
this man seems to think Revelation is to be taken literally. Here are scriptures from Rev. Are any of these thing literal?
Rev.2:1 To the angel of the chuch in Ephesus write: The one who holds the seven stars in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands.
Rev.2:20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads my bond-servants astray, so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.
Rev.3:1 I know yourdeeds, that you have a name that you are alive, and you are dead.
Are there literal stars and lampstands? Is Jezebel a real person or a personification of evil? Are those in Sardis literally dead, or is this spiritual death? You can't read very far in Rev. {the first verse} before you come into many problems if you take most of what is said as literal.
I think, as you do Joe, that a lot of the people who were put out of BT are back. They changed their names, but their MO is still the same.