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Here is the point I am trying to make: I am not arguing one position or the other since I am still researching and working through these things. My contention is with the misrepresentation of many good Bible preachers and teachers by those who hold to egalitarian views. This is a common trend I have discovered as I have been researching this issue. I have seen the same thing in the Calvinism/Arminianism debate. There is a constant use of falacious and slanderous arguments and accusations. Ad hominem attacks, straw man arguments, etc are employed primarily by the egalitarian side. This has been my observation from what I have seen so far. I think the best thing is for official moderated debates to be held about these issues so each side can point out where it is being misrepresented. No offense, but I think that many of you are shadow boxing and are taking this thing way too far. This will be my last post. I just want to end with a quote from the Baptist preacher, Charles Spurgeon which illustrates what I have generally seen in this debate as well as the the spirit of this blog. The quote is in reference to Calvinism but I think the principle applies in this debate to the Egalitarian approach:

“The most infamous allegations have been brought against us, and sometimes, I must fear, by men who knew them to be utterly untrue: and, to this day, there are many of our opponents, who, when they run short of matter, invent and make for themselves a man of straw, call that John Calvin and then shoot all their arrows at it. We are not come here to defend your man of straw — shoot at it or burn it as you will, and, if it suit your convenience, still oppose doctrines which were never taught, and rail at fictions which, save in your own brain, were never in existence.” – Charles Spurgeon