Here's the charge.
Didn't you suggest very recently that non-believers like me should keep our beliefs secret?
Here's what I wrote which seems to have given rise to the charge
'So I don't think more time needs to be spent on how you became an unbeliever...Details of your splendid present position as an unbeliever are your own affair, kept as your own peculiar treasured secret.'
1.) I did not intend that all non-believers be secretive about what they really believe. But I can see how FMF could take it that way.
These were my specific remarks to him alone. He extrapolated them out to mean this is my attitude towards everybody who is an unbeliever in Christ.
It is likely that he will continue to insist that that is the case.
2.) The remark was tailored not to ALL unbelievers or all seeking people or all undecided about that they will do with Jesus Christ.
The remark was tailored toward ONE individual on this Forum. THAT individual, to me, coveys the posture as follows:
Ie. [paraphrased]
I USE to be a Christ loving believer in Jesus, the way you poor deluded still asleep Christians are now. You'll just have to take my word for that. Trust me.
Don't ask me too much about how I became a Christian who decided to become an unbeliever. You'll only get scant generalities, like " I decided it was no longer tenable "
Those are not up for discussion. Take a Wink and Smile and the assurance that I was an OLD HAND and knew ALL about believing in Jesus.
My writing this, for what its worth ...
[and maybe it was not the best thing for me to write, being somewhat sarcasm]
'So I don't think more time needs to be spent on how you became an unbeliever...Details of your splendid present position as an unbeliever are your own affair, kept as your own peculiar treasured secret.'
is my way of telling you that I do not intend to pull the details from you like pulling teeth about the process from which you [allegedly] went from a Jesus lover to a Jesus non-believing skeptic.
It is obvious to me from years of reading your stuff that you don't want to discuss those details. You want us to just take your word for it that ...
Hey everybody! I found out that God and Jesus Christ are not REAL ! Trust me.