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No, actually: one relies on the authority of Scripture. " Sola Scriptura," remember? The scripture was canonized by the church. In addition, scripture often contradicts itself. The Gospel of John is often at odds with the other three gospels. The Book of James seems at war with the Paulin...

I didn't understand the wording of it. The Church didn't create the Bible. As I said before, it's better to say that the Tanakh and the events of the gospels are what constituted the Church, since the Church did not exist at all until Pentecost. So it seemed to me you were asking a question premise...

Too much of any thing is a bad thing by definition. If it wasn't bad, it wouldn't be "too mich".

Luther, by the way, disagreed with IC about free will. One of his famous debates with Desiderius Erasmus focused on this issue. Luther thought original sin left humans incapable of good without divine intervention, and that God's foreknowledge proved that free will was impossible. Here is Erasmus: “...

[ Actually, no. And you can find that out for yourself, if you wish to take the time; so you don't have to take my word for it. But the later dictates of popes and councils have often even wildly gone against what Scripture has said. And that's actually what produced Luther's rebellion against the ...

The Catholics and the Orthodox believe in what they call an "organic" revelation: that the Bible may have been the starting point, but that the revealed truth of God "grows" through the pronouncements of the clergy and councils, which can alter, supplement, or even countermand e...

accelafine wrote: ↑Wed Dec 03, 2025 5:58 pm

Who said you had to? Of course, it's all about you. Men are such self-absorbed arseholes. No wonder they manage to ruin everything.

Maybe we can avoid being arseholes by transitioning.

It's the other way around, actually. If anything, we could say that the Bible created the Church, since it was only through the OT the gospels and the apostolic writings that we know there should be anything to call the Church. I thought Jesus created Christianity... He did. He's the grounds of the...

This can only be a be a gift to the trans community. Now they won't have to experience the horror of actually being in Girl Guides. They can join the boy scouts where they belong. It's a shame it went downhill like everything else. Boy scouts used to learn lots of really useful, practical 'outdoors...

Alexis Jacobi wants to assassinate 200,000 people so that his pathetic little life will be slightly more comfortable. How horrible that he was once robbed! O, the horror, the horror! OK, I am reasonable: let’s settle on 50,000. But I won’t sacrifice the heads on pikes in the town plazas … No, I jus...

So what is needed is a truly democratic project of mass-assassination. You need to go after and eliminate possibly as many as 200,000 people all across the country. But it has to be sort of like in The Usual Suspects . Keyser Söze not only assassinated the perpetrator but annihilated his entire fam...

This can only be a be a gift to the trans community. Now they won't have to experience the horror of actually being in Girl Guides. When my son was 7 or 8 he expressed an interest in joining Cub Scouts. I've always disliked such groups (too much organization and not enough fun). But I took him to an...

[ It's the other way around, actually. If anything, we could say that the Bible created the Church, since it was only through the OT the gospels and the apostolic writings that we know there should be anything to call the Church. [ Thanks for informing me. Silly me. I thought Jesus created Christia...

Major Hegseth should make the new orders clear... only destroy the drug smuggler's method of aquatic transportation while they are travelling through schools of sharks... killing the enemy? heavens no, we are merely helping the environment by creating fish food... -Imp Huh? If we kill the drug smug...

The moon was a ghostly galleon, framing the dark spires of a black castle. Surrounding the castle was an extensive lawn, green, but shaggy, as the grass was many inches high and had not been mowed in months. From the castle dungeon, bedecked with chains, a prisoner was dragged. He blinked and stumbl...