All i was getting at is we're only responsible for ourselves and i shouldnt have commented on him making the thread at all. Thus my sorries
Thanks Rose for your explanation.
I don't mean to dissect words, but I did have differing thoughts in my mind when I read the word responsible and I just did a quick Google search on the definition of that word and this is what came up:
re·spon·si·ble
rəˈspänsəb(ə)l/
adjective
adjective:
responsible
- having an obligation to do something, or having control over or care for someone, as part of one's job or role.
"the department responsible for education"
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[TD]in charge of, in control of, at the helm of, accountable for, liable for "who is responsible for the prisons?"
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- being the primary cause of something and so able to be blamed or credited for it.
"the gene was responsible for a rare type of eye cancer"
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[TD]accountable, answerable, to blame, guilty, culpable, blameworthy, at fault, in the wrong "if an error's been made, I'm the one who's responsible"
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I'm thinking that you were speaking of responsibility in relation to accountability and if so, then I fully agree with you. Ultimately, we're all going to be held accountable before God for that which we have individually done. My own involvement here falls more in line with the first definition given above. In other words, I do believe that Christians have an obligation to care for one another as in being their brother's keeper or helping to watch out for their soul even as one is watching out for their own soul. In my estimation, that would fall under the category of loving one's neighbor as one's self. In other words, if I've been convicted by the Lord that something is wrong in my own life, then it's quite possible that it's equally as wrong when somebody else does the same thing especially if the same motives were involved. I'm nobody's judge and I'm certainly not the forum's fruit inspector. Again, my own involvement here and on several other threads has been related to seeking to get everybody, myself included, to just put down their swords. Oh, not the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God, but the swords which are regularly yielded here by some with which they seem to delight in trying to kill others.
Again, I thank you for clarifying your own comments and I've just sought to clarify my own beliefs, motives and actions myself.
Have a blessed day.