Lin

“I would think that he would have been more open to show me the error of my way instead of saying “God have mercy on your soul” and cutting off communication.”

This is a variation of one of the standard responses when they see you are NOT coming around to their way of thinking. It is meant to be a conversation stopper and it works. Another one that is used quite a bit is “It is in the bible you just don’t believe it”.

I would be interested in a link or resorce to the Koukls ‘raise the roof’ technique to get to the bottom line of a debate.