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PRm–I’m working particularly long days, on top of my family responsibilities. Yes, sometimes I will forget exactly how I phrased something earlier. I’m just plain tired sometimes. I already asked your forgiveness if you felt it was needed. It seems you can’t give it?
I realized my use of “jumped the gun” may have been confusing. I think the phrase comes from racing, where a runner or horse jumps off the starting point ahead of the gunshot. I believe you were saying I ironically “jumped the gun” myself. But, I’m thinking you meant I “jumped to conclusions”?—an unwarranted conclusion of what you meant in your first two posts?
When I used “jumped the gun”, I wasn’t thinking you did something bad–running is not bad—but that, IMO, the order was what was off. (IOW, please wait your turn to run.) To me, if we were all sitting around your patio table having this discussion, I, if I were a Catholic, would have been quiet and looked to the few Evangelical posters to go first. I’d let them explain themselves what they know about the origin and history of the sinner’s prayer—that was one of the OP’s questions; I’d discuss with them Indifferently’s next question regarding if he was understanding the practice rightly or not; if I were him, I’d want to know if what I’d observed was a correct (to an Evangelical) use of the sinner’s prayer, or a perversion of it. To me, even if I were a Catholic on a Catholic forum, that would seem like like the most helpful and logical sequence of discussion.
As I said before, I would not be offended, and certainly not outraged, at a Catholic thinking my beliefs were heretical. If I’m using 'heretical" in a way that isn’t specifically Catholic, then let me say I wouldn’t be offended at a Catholic thinking my beliefs were born from a departure from the lens by which Catholicism views how a person becomes a Christian. But, I would want, first, to have the Catholics and Anglicans around the table to seek understanding of the Evangelical practice under discussion before any sort of Catholic or Anglican judgment was passed on it. Then, since I know already from other threads that Catholics see problems with the sinner’s prayer, as an Evangelical I’d want detailed, helpful information on just where they see it as problematic. I think I finally did get that information from JonS and Andrewstexas.
PRm, please consider that you may have invested my written words with an emotional overlay which I wasn’t putting on them. I’ve never been outraged, by any means, here at CAF. I once told a poster squarely that I was annoyed with him. Sometimes I get exasperated here in a facepalm sort of way. But I never even been close to being outraged…not even close to it at all.
