I do think you are holding to some doctrines without thought to study...

you came in like a march wind first post about this Moore guy...

I was raised Catholic, was excumnicated, attended a Pentacostal Assembly next, then a Baptist assembly after that. From there I attended a non denominational assembly and then a baptist assembly again. I was exposed to many doctrines. I examined them all. As a teenager I drove the Catholic priest to such distraction with my questions he actually called my parents in for a conference. He told them I was a middle of the road person... I could see both sides, yet he cautioned them that my questions would lead me away from the Catholic church... what insite he had, though I didn't leave, at the age of seventeen, I was thrown out. That middle of the road way of thinking, the ability to see both sides of a topic, problem, or bible belief, is what has led me to where I am now.

I agree, we must try to keep the unity of the Spirit in peace.

Ephesians 4:3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

I actually have a box of salt with this verse taped to it on top of my computer desk.

Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Neither of these verses are easy because when you start to show someone Scriptures that don't support what they believe they often get angry. I am not saying that is what is happening here, only that I experience that over and over. People tend to get comfortable in what they believe and don't want that comfort shaken up. I want to be shaken up. I don't want to just accept what I hear without studying it out. If I am wrong (and being human that is a absoulte possibility) I admit it. Studying either reinforces what you already see in the Word of God, or brings new evidence that you are wrong... either way there is growth.

I have been banned from one other group... twice actually from the same group... and that because I asked for Scriptural proof for something someone said. I was invited back into the group and was banned again for the same thing. I am really quite surprised that I have not been banned from this one already, and for the same thing.

I am outspoken. I said from the beginning I was jumping in with both feet. How is anyone going to know what is in my mind unless I let it out. As far as converting anyone, I maintain that isn't my job... my job is to get the Word of God out there for people to hear to galvinate them into studying for themselves, checking out everything they hear. Yes, I consider myself to be as the bereans were. I do add some commentary, as necessary, to explain what I see. If you go back over my posts and take out all the Scripture verses you will see that in most posts, I actually say very little as compared to the verses.

I hope that gives you some insite to who I am.

Besides all that I am a wife, my husband and I have been married 26 years. I am the mother of one son, from a previous marriage, which, by the way, is what got me thrown out of the Catholic Church. My husband and I are the parents of two daughters and he raised my son as his own. I am a grandmother of one grandson, age three, and one granddaughter 4 months, with another granddaughter due in just a a week or so. My children are my one true accomplishment, the one thing of true value in my life. They come here for Sunday dinner, every Sunday that they can make it. I have turned out to be sort of a decent cook after many years, at least that is what I am told. I raise chickens for our own eggs, and I garden with a fever. I just planted over 400 tomato and pepper seeds for my own transplants, of which I will plant about half all over the yard, where ever I can find a place for them, and give the rest away. I sew and I like to create things from many different materials. I can come up with more things to do that I have time to do. I have a lap dog named Quincy, a cat, named Murphy, that likes my keyboard a little to much and a pure white rabbit, named Blackie, that lives in a big cage in my livingroom that is way to fat, (yes, in the livingroom). That is about all there is worth knowing about the eartly me. This computer and it's online focus to Bible Study, plus my kids, my pets, my housework and my garden are the main part of my day and my life.

I know this is a very long post, and I will try to keep them shorter in the future, if I am still here.

In Christ

Cindy