In Reply to: (message deleted) posted by Alan on January 05, 2004 at 12:56:49
PLEASE direct your post to Eva, and not to "Dear fellow exers." You may not realize it, but for a start that would make a lot of difference.
You are not here to instruct or to teach others what to think about someone else's beliefs, measuring them according to your ideas of orthodoxy or lack of thereof.
You may freely addess Eva, debate with her about her statements, and we can benefit and learn from your discussions.
What you are doing is invalidating someone's beliefs and warning others against them, by subtly/indirectly labeling them Bergish, when the discussion is obviously a complex one and has not taken its course.
A good suggestion would be for you to speak up about how you are not comfortable with discarding Paul and the bible, as you perceive Eva is doing that, and she can answer whether this is or is not the case. What you are doing here is concluding for everyone that you are right and that her ideas are false, once again, without using those words.
Kindly do not impose your own validity or lack of validity you place on another's beliefs onto everyone else. Kindly share your experience. Speak up about your journey. Address Eva about where you agree or discagree with her. As she mentioned, she may not be able to answer for a while.