In regard to the “Mistakes” article, I am just saying that we shouldn’t feel guilty and condemned when we make them, even if we turn up the volume too loud. I wanted to say it in a funny way.

Good points though. I appreciate you thinking these things over.

Now, I’m very cautious about commending any theists here for fear someone will think, “Oh, no! If that bad, wicked atheist thinks it’s right, it must be wrong!” So, I won’t.

My quibble with your linked post is the “accidentally” because it seems like you’re endorsing wink-wink-nudge-nudge-of-course-I-didn’t-mean-to-turn-it-up-that-loud. It’s one thing to make mistakes and assure people that mistakes are part of the learning curve, it’s another to encourage people to hijack an unsuspecting audience and make purposeful ‘mistakes’ in order to see how far you can push the envelope. I hope what you are trying to do is the former and not the later, but that particular line is iffy to me.

Thanks for clearing all that up.

Don’t forget to read this if you haven’t already.

It occurred to me that if you look at things through some sort of Calvinistic lens, you are right. Because God has already chosen and if you’re not part of the elect you’ll never be part of the elect and the elect will never need correction, because, you know, they’re elect.

It doesn’t mean that you, Rev William Mills, aren’t deluded. It just means that it would be a waste of time to correct you if you were. Because if you’re already going down a wrong path, that you’re on a wrong path at all means you were never one of the elect and if you were never one of the elect you might as well keep your delusions for as long as you can.

Unless you are claiming that each Christian is omniscient, there is no way to know with 100% certainty that you have the message right. Even assuming that God is powerful enough to let you know something with 100% accuracy, you still don’t have the means to determine between what you think God is telling you and what your flesh is telling you. You would need omniscience for that. But you may be claiming this – I don’t know.

And I think you understand this. I think you know of people, or groups of people, that sincerely believe they are doing God’s work even though you think they are not. What I’m going to say is something that you will reject, but it is quite possible that you are as misguided as those others. And if you turn on the echo-chamber because you’re absolutely convinced that you could not possibly have it wrong, you’ll never know this.

Unless they’re completely narcissistic or deeply delusional, most people understand the benefit of constructive criticism.

To tell someone they are making mistakes is saying Jesus is making a mistake, and we KNOW Jesus makes NO mistakes.