In terms of bublee withdrawing from this thread, I’d say it’s a case of, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” Though I’m guessing that for him, it’s justified as I justified my own refusal to go on trying to argue with him, by saying I was going to “shake the dust off of my feet as a witness against” the one who would not receive the gospel that I had to offer nor respond to the call to repentance. May God be with him – and us.