I was visiting a friend yesterday and his roomate started yelling at me for being a liberal. I was discussing with my friend the issue of doctrine - and how often in perfecting our doctrine we try and make clear that which the Bible doesn't make clear. I was discussing why I thought that this was not necessary ... it causes division (taking a controversial statement and making Biblical fact can only cause division) and it takes away from that which Jesus made perfectly clear(we debate all day about how many angels can fit on the head of a pin and ... oops we forgot about the poor!).

So, here is his roomate's line of thought. Is God sovereign? Yes. Then you need to trust that the Bible is right and you are wrong. You need to give up your liberalism because the Bible is overwhelmingly conservative.

We discussed a few different points. I finished zero complete thoughts and maybe 4 complete sentences. This boy was so angry at me - just because I existed. The whole time he kept saying a lot of stuff about how Christians need to show love in truth ... well, if he thought that I was wrong he should have tried out his love in truth principles and tried showing me some love.

It was a really painful conversation for me. I saw my friend change in the blink of an eye.

Also, a good friend suffered horribly last night and I failed a presentation today.