Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
You said:

I have to disagree that i failed to answer the original question. What i attempted to do was distinguish between the different gifts because i felt your question was a little broad. So i tried to demonstrate that the oversight ruling and teaching is different to other teaching like prophecy.

What you have done is to commit a logical fallacy. While you said my question was too “broad” you actually made it “broader” by exchanging “work” of an overseer and renaming it as a “gift” over “oversight ruling”. Thus while we were only talking about gifts, you exchanged the topic for a discussion on a “work” that can be appointed.

Red Herring
Topic A is under discussion.
Topic B is introduced under the guise of being relevant to topic A (when topic B is actually not relevant to topic A).
Topic A is abandoned.

We were talking about spiritual gifts. You introduced the topic of overseer and then claimed that only elders can teach in the church. Your conclusion is faulty and out of order as well as unbiblical and I reminded you that you did not answer my questions. You even admitted at the end that you were not going to answer my question.

This kind of evasion and an introduction of a logical fallacy can be very frustrating to have to deal with.

I am going to break my comments up into smaller bites so my responses aren’t as long.