Ok, I honestly thought you were being sarcastic. I am very very sorry. Based on all the encounters I have had on this site and the diatribe of double sided comments where I was not sure how to take the reply I have since been sitting in defence mode. Kinda like were Bafana Bafana are most of the time on the soccer field. Not that I care one bit about soccer. I will buy a vuvusela only to make people think I actually was there…

I do on the other hand really care how people handle scripture and interpret it because of the consequences in their lives and others lives if passed on incorrectly.

I gather you wont be attending the cage fight ;)

Ok, let us move on from here… I am happy now, you happy? Good. lol

I think you missed my intention. As stated above, “thanks for your concern and please continue to pray that God will direct my life, my thoughts and my writings. I have no desire to bring Him into disrepute and wish only to do His will.”

God first, then others (including you), “I believe you have a high regard for Scripture and I’d ask that you continue to hold me, and others, accountable for what we write and say against His Holy Word.”

I’m only asking you to test what I write against God’s own Word. If it’s found wanting then please point the error out.

I’d offer you the same grace.

Surely the Holy Spirit is the One who holds you accountable through conviction that what you write is Christian or not Christian? Yes of course I will have my say for others out there who need to know the truth as well. But that’s not the point, the point is, where is the Holy Spirit? There is only 1 message of Jesus Christ, and 1 Holy Spirit that will always confirm if you are speaking the right message or not. If you can’t discern which message you speak is the truth then….how do you even know that the one you want to hold you accountable is speaking the truth?

This is a spiritual thing Mark. You need the Holy Spirits council, otherwise you wont understand.

I deleted the comments off my blog after reading what I wrote, what you wrote and then deciding that the spat, on a public forum, did nothing to glorify God, His Word or the work that His done in my life. As such I deleted it. It’s my site, that’s my prerogative.

I’m not as cunning as you might think.

If you never went and wrote those comments on your blog about me being uneducated etc, (in fact you said that to me on this blog too at one stage, that my first language is possibly not English), that I wrote mean and nasty things about you when conversing with you on my blog. Which is COMPLETELY untrue. I would not have written the above.

See the section on “A real life example of a spiritual language mis-understanding” came after your comments on your blog to someone else about what a horrible and illiterate person I am (that you then went and deleted) after I questioned you.

After I saw your comments, I thought, ‘huh, well that’s not nice Mark…please prove that I said utter horrific things to you’ and you couldn’t because there was none. So to save yourself you just deleted ALL the comments under that one section. *which I must say gave me a good chuckle*. Btw thanks for the email letting me know you were going to do that. Much appreciated.

So take your sarcasm and go put it on your blog where all can see what you really stand for. Very cunning you are ol’ chap.

Will you have front row seats when Roger Saner manages to get me in that metaphorical cage fight he so dreams about?

Pfff… so alike, so predictable.

I know I said I no longer read your blog but as it turns out I was drawn back like a moth to the flame.

I assume that this article is referring to me? If so, thanks for your concern and please continue to pray that God will direct my life, my thoughts and my writings. I have no desire to bring Him into disrepute and wish only to do His will. I believe you have a high regard for Scripture and I’d ask that you continue to hold me, and others, accountable for what we write and say against His Holy Word.

In Christ,

Mark

When I heard about the SEACOM cable I got so excited, whoohooo bandwidth – then I thought, “who’s paying for this?”. Who is Herakles Telecom? I found out who now owns most of the bandwidth pushed out by that puppy in SA.

As for cheap? Well… I say nothing….

SEACOM intends to develop, construct, own and operate a privately funded submarine fiber optic cable to be commissioned in the first quarter of 2009. The SEA Cable System expects to compliment the business of national carriers, broadcasters and education and research networks by providing a wholesale solution for international bandwidth to be sold by national carriers through their already established retail channels. SEACOM expects to sell ‘cheap bandwidth’ that encourages volume discounts and large bandwidth growth. The SEA Cable System is being designed with a nominal capacity of 1,280 Gb/s comprised of two fiber pairs expected to connect South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Tanzania and Kenya to India and Europe (with an option for UAE).

God bless
Pete

I actually missed this comment of yours, need to say something here. Java is not the problem. It’s a terrible language to program in when you struggle with object orientation haha. A bit of useless info there…

What I wanted to say was: I’ve been thinking about this article for a while now since I posted it and actually there is an even more serious side to this.

I have edited the article and fixed it to what I should have said from the beginning…