I have referenced a reason for my belief that the Unions have the decison making authority.
Where have you given any reference that unions have unrestricted authority to ordain anyone?
If he did not intend to do such, I will suggest that he intended scorn and sarcasm.
I did not. I was simply making the point that no one believes that the unions have such unlimited authority. The same point has been made in the gay marriage debate: Can someone decide to marry their dog or cat? At no time when such a point has been made have I ever thought that anyone was intending scorn or sarcasm by making such a point.
But, even in that case I would still say that he has cpmpared women dogs and equated their attempt to be ordained with the same value as an attempt to ordain dogs would have.
Would you then argue that someone who asks, Does someone have a right to marry their dog or cat?, is putting the same value on marrying a pet as on marrying someone of the same gender? I would not. Instead, the person making that point is simply pointing out that there is no divine basis for either absurdity.
Bob, by his comment, in my opinion has taken a very serious spiritual issue and trivialized it to the point where i find it very offensive.
False. But if you want to talk about finding offense, if you want to come here and use AdventTalk as a platform for promoting rebellion, I find that very offensive. And rebellion is definitely a spiritual issue:
1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
"'Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.' Rebellion originated with Satan, and all rebellion against God is directly due to satanic influence. Those who set themselves against the government of God have entered into an alliance with the archapostate, and he will exercise his power and cunning to captivate the senses and mislead the understanding. He will cause everything to appear in a false light. Like our first parents, those who are under his bewitching spell see only the great benefits to be received by transgression" (PP 635).
And so we see that dabbling with rebellion is akin to playing around with seances.
The question then remains as to whether the present rebellion against GC Session votes and properly constituted church authority, the latter of which is listed in the
Church Manual as grounds for church discipline, constitutes rebellion against God. For the answer to that, see 9T 260-261.
The whole idea, in my thinking is very offinsive spiritually to attempt to equate ordination to dogs.
Then don't raise the issue. I certainly didn't. The only issue I raised was whether you or anyone else really believes that the unions have an absolute right to ordain whomever or whatever they want to.
I think that my old and dead, grandmother would ask Bob to wash his mouth out with the old time soap that farmers used to make on the farm.
Speaking of old, dead grandmothers, or any other dead female, 2 years old or 100 years old, do unions have an absolute right to ordain dead people? Or are they restricted by GC and NAD policy, as well as Scripture, to only ordain the living?
Or, rather than give the obvious answer to that question since it destroys a key argument used in the current rebellion, will you instead attack the question?