How often should I sacrifice a beast to appease God?

Those are all dependent clauses; none stands on its own. If you want them to stand on their own, they must be written as, "He was focusing...", "She was focusing..." and "You are focusing..." or "You're focusing...".

Just accept the correction already.

I never claimed his death was a 'merely human effort...'.

No, you didn't. However, you keep using a term that describes human effort to appease an angry god. I added the word, "merely" because the truth is that the death of Jesus on the cross was God's plan and it was not in any way a "human sacrifice" with the motivation of that practiced by the Aztecs and other groups.

Meaningless gobbledegook. Try learning proper English.


Actually, you are, because the words, "parables the signified tongue of God" is not a word combination I would use except when quoting you, and it isn't in Scripture.


Yes; an incorrect understanding.


Scripture tells us plainly that parables were used to hide the truth from the unbelieving, not to "teach us how to hear God called walking by faith."

You have taken individual verses or statements from Scripture, discarded the context in which they were written or spoken, and made up your own beliefs around them. You need instruction in English, and then you need instruction in hermeneutics.

Nope. I think the issue being my sentence was complete.

Perhaps I should have corrected it by saying something like:

'I was referring to your focusing on'

Or maybe 'I was referring to you're focusing on' would make better grammatical sense to you?

'Human effort to appease angry god' is not the definition of 'human sacrifice'.

However, was God not angry? Does he not need appeasing?

If parables are not the signified tongue of God. . . the poetic language of faith . Then what is it as it is written? The literal tongue? And then no need to hide anything. Simply walk by sight and pretend the kingdom of God comes by observation?

That's funny; there's another grammatically incorrect sentence. If you wrote, "I think the issue is that my sentence was incomplete," it would be correct.


The bolded version is closer to being grammatically correct, but that is not what you wrote. Even then, "your focus on" would be better.

That's funny; there's another grammatically incorrect sentence. If you wrote, "I think the issue is that my sentence was incomplete," it would be correct.


The bolded version is closer to being grammatically correct, but that is not what you wrote. Even then, "your focus on" would be better.

No, it is not. Your following sentence demonstrates it; "You were focusing" is correct grammar for the past tense, and "You are focusing" is correct grammar for the present tense. "You're" is a contraction of "You are".


No, it doesn't.

"Your focusing having been interrupted, you demonstrated some irritation" would be correct, because it makes "Your focusing" part of a dependent clause. The sentence in question, "Your focusing on whom it was that had him killed," does not have "Your focusing" as part of a dependent clause.

"Your" is always possessive. "You're" is never possessive.

It's time to concede and accept the correction.

How could you possibly get that from my post?

I GOT IT FROM your focusing on whom it was that had him killed.

I don't see why 'you're' would make more grammatical than 'your' in that sentence.

Which post?

I GOT IT FROM your focusing on whom it was that had him killed.

I don't see why 'you're' would make more grammatical than 'your' in that sentence.

The issue being THAT my sentence was incomplete.

That's not a complete sentence either! It's common but sloppy usage, as it's grammatically incorrect.

Here are your words from post #89: "Are you suggesting Jesus did not intend to be arrested and executed? "

Yes, I explained that Jesus was killed by the Romans after being handed over by the Jews. I did not say or imply anything about Jesus' intentions in that post. Your question was a non sequitur.


"Your" is possessive, and it makes the sentence incomplete. Although you may have been meaning "the focusing that I was doing" making the possessive sense valid, you still would have to add more words to make a complete thought. "You're" would be correct, given the other words you actually wrote. It's just that simple.

Many people are either ignorant or confused about the distinction; you are the first person I have encountered who has argued about it. Once you understand that the words don't mean the same thing at all, you likely will not make the same mistake.

Fine.

'I got it from you are focusing on whom had him killed'

Doesn't make any sense to me but okay.

Sorry.

THAT doesn't make any sense to me, but 'okay'.

Fine.

'I got it from you are focusing on whom had him killed'

Doesn't make any sense to me but okay.

Sorry.

THAT doesn't make any sense to me, but 'okay'.

Alright. I have given you the explanation consistent with what an English teacher would give you. How about you explain your understanding of your statement as you wrote it and of the grammatical rules that guide it.