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It would be if the person that one was talking to had never shown signs of being rude. Did you not notice I am the not the only one that can see how you are being rather rude at times?
I think you missed the point of what @samtonga43 was posting. She was giving examples of loaded questions based on false assumptions the other poster was asking.
It is your continued rudeness that makes the abuse of a smiley rude. And you are back to claiming without showing any evidence. You do not seem to understand when and how to use evidence. When you accuse someone of something, such as "assuming" you need something stronger than failed logic. One cannot ignore one's past behavior.
Since you believe the Sabbath should be kept, do you believe the penalty for breaking the Sabbath law should be enforced?
Hi GC nice to meet you and thanks for joining us. I know this was for another member but I thought to add some comments that might be helpful as I have studied this topic in a lot of detail from the Old testament scriptures. You are referring to the death penalty under the civil laws of Israel in the old covenant right (Exodus 31:14-15; 35:2)? My answer is no absolutely not. The reason being is that the death penalties were civil laws for the physical nation of Israel to teach God's people that the wages of opening sinning and rejecting God's law was death. The same death penalty was not restricted to Gods' 4th commandment as a civil law for Israel but the same death penalty was given for all of God's 10 commandments. There is nothing new here as the death penalty is the same in the new covenant to all those who reject Jesus (see Romans 6:23) but will not be enforced on the wicked until the second coming.
According to the scriptures there are many laws in the bible that God wants us to believe and obey. At the same time there are many laws in the old covenant that are "shadow laws" pointing to Jesus and His role and new ministration under Gods' new covenant promise (Jeremiah 31:31-34; Ezekiel 36:24-27; Hebrews 8:10-12). For example all those laws relating to the earthly Sanctuary, the Levitical Priesthood, animal sacrifices and sin offerings, Feast days etc were all pointing to Jesus as God's sacrifice for the sins of the world once and for all (Hebrews 10:10; John 1:29; 1 Corinthians 5:7-8; Hebrews 7:1-25; Hebrews 8:1-13; Hebrews 9:1-27 and Hebrews 10:1-22). All these laws to do with the earthly Sanctuary and old covenant laws of forgiveness of sins and sin offerings and the Levitical Priesthood are all now fulfilled and continued in Jesus as the promised Christ and Messiah to who they were all pointing to in the New covenant promise of Jeremiah 31:31-34 and Hebrews 8:10-12. However, these old covenant "shadow laws" (Hebrews 9:1-27) are not the same as God's eternal moral laws (the 10 commandments see Exodus 20:3-17) that under the new covenant give us the knowledge of what sin is when broken *see Romans 3:20. So the role of God's 10 commandments in the new covenant have the same role they did in the old covenant and that is to give us the knowledge of good (moral right doing when obeyed) and evil (moral wrong doing when disobeyed); sin (moral wrong doing) and righteousness (moral right doing) *see Romans 3:20; Romans 7:7; 1 John 3:4; Psalms 119:172. According to James in James 2:10-11 if we break anyone of God's 10 commandments we stand guilty before God as sinners breaking all of Gods' law. Therefore to break the Sabbath which is one of Gods' 10 commandments in the bible is sin in the new covenant. There is not a single scripture in all of the bible that says Gods' 4th commandment has now been abolished and we are now commanded to keep Sunday as a holy day of rest in honor of the resurrection of Jesus. This is simply a man-made teaching and tradition that Jesus warns us about in Matthew 15:3-9 that has led many away from God and His Word to break the commandments of God.
For me personally, I believe according to the scriptures that God has His people in every Church who is living up to all the light of God's Word that He has revealed to them (see John 10:16). However, most of these Church's have departed God and His Word in order to follow man-made teachings and traditions. According to Jesus the hour is coming and now is that the true worshipers will worship the father in Spirit and in truth. God is a Spirit and those who worship the father must worship Him in Spirit and in truth (see John 4:23-24). God is calling all of is where ever we might be back to His Word so we can worship Him in Spirit and in truth. According to the scriptures as we grow in the knowledge of Gods' Word (Ephesians 4:13), God does not hold us accountable for sin until He gives us a knowledge of what sin is (see James 4:17 and Acts of the Apostles 17:30-31). When God gives us a knowledge of His Word that shows what sin is then God expects us to believe and follow what His Word says *Acts of the Apostles 17:30-31. At this time, when we have been given a knowledge of the truth of Gods' Word, according to the scriptures, if we choose not to believe and follow what Gods' Word says then God holds us accountable for sin and we will be in danger of the judgement unless we repent of our sins and believe and obey what Gods' Word says (see Hebrews 10:26-31).
You are just not getting this, SZ. Even if I had shown signs of being rude, why does this mean that think it is a bad idea to be polite?
Sorry, but no. Your understanding of the analogy fails. You say that I think it is a bad idea to be polite? But you have zero evidence. You are assuming, again.
SZ, this is really simple. You are accusing me of believing it is a bad idea to be polite.
I abused a smiley? How?
So, if I say something is obviously the case, it is not the case.
To be honest here sis. I do not see that you have been rude anywhere in your responses
Another logical fail. Does everything have to be painfully explained to you? If a person can only state "it is obvious" in a situation where evidence is needed, even though it has been explained to them why evidence is needed it is a rather good sign that there is no such evidence.
Do you think that you are fooling anyone? You use smileys to insult others. I shouldn't have to explain this to you.
No, there is plenty of evidence that you believe it is a bad idea to be polite. Your continual rudeness even after being corrected is evidence of that. You might not understand the concept of evidence.
I wasn’t quoting a verse - I was just saying that I think I understand what the badly written text was meant to be saying: a clarification - not a statement or agreement with a claim:
Thank you for the clarification. I see nothing about taking anyone anywhere. That is why I was asking for a verse. The only verse I see says Jesus will return to earth and gather people to him so that they can be with him wherer he is. When he returns to earth he will be on earth not in heaven. Nothing says he will take people to heaven.
Another one that has joined in a discussion thread and taken the wrong line on what a particular person (aka: me, in this case) was saying.
I’m glad we got part of that cleared up.
Soapy, I am starting to like you more. I also think the earth, either all or part of creation. will be populated by people who have gained eternal life. I see nothing about any of them "going to heaven" which is what most people hope to do. They would be better off trying to get to the glorious paradise that the earth will be.