63 Frank,

I just found your comment in my “spam” box. I am not sure what triggered the software to think your comment was spam. Sorry that the comment from delayed getting up on the blog.

Cheryl, it is good to have you back and up to top form in expounding the Scriptures,

Thank you, Frank! I do apologize for being so slow lately. I have a lot of fires in the iron right now and distractions galore. I hope that things will get back to normal soon and it is my plan to finish my next “Paul” post within the next day or two.

In fact, in the Catholic Dictionary of Theology, the terms for these types of heretics are, as I recall, an Informal Heretic, one who teaches a heresy in ignorance, not realizing it is contrary to orthodox Christianity; and a Formal Herectic, who not only knows what orthodox Christianity but rejects it and deliberately teaches a heresy for his own reasons.

Thanks for educating us on this issue from another angle. I also appeal to reason. I think all of us inside know that there is a valid difference between one who has been deceived and who does his/her actions in that state and the one who is a conniving liar waiting for their next victim. God certainly will judge the heart and make a difference in his judgment between the two.

Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight, But the LORD weighs the motives.

Frank, I think your bluntness was done with graciousness. You even kept your words to “I” instead of “you” and thus defended yourself well.