The fruit of dialogue will be greater progress toward the truth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\nNow, the person using the word is coming from the evangelical side of the world. What does his use of the word mean?<\/p>\n
Would you say that an ‘invitation to dialogue’ was issued? Did ‘dialogue’ take place?<\/p>\n
If anything took place, were any fundamentalist people edified (strengthened, built up) by the exchange?<\/p>\n
I’m just asking… I’ve been told that it is a sin to judge motives, so let’s assume all the motivations here are as pure as the driven snow.<\/p>\n
But something surely took place here, didn’t it? Was it an advance for truth or not? I’m not entirely sure.<\/p>\n
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