In Reality, Most People Who Say They Are Affiliated with Some Religion

[Cary]

53. I didn't say you criticized

I said you rendered judgment.

Who appointed you? Who appointed pastors for that matter?

I have pondered the story of Abraham in his father's idol shop. If you see that story as a metaphor, as my own faith teaches, then you don't have to apply the story to only physical idols. So here I am in Abraham's shoes, telling you, father, that your bigger idol grabbed a stick and beat up all of the smaller ones.

You tend to not understand my subtle assertions, which since your comprehension is personal I will never be able to enable you to do. But think here of your bigger idol which you have named as "faith" beating the
smaller idols which you have named "nominal."

And before you judge that metaphor it isn't perfect. But who ever said it had to be?