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Brother Boot?

I'll try to get back here after the kids are abed, but just for the record, Lester and Valerie, I is and always have been a "he."

Valerie, the risk of relying on "oral" tradition is that we can assume any issue was addressed that we want, and it truly creates an unrestrained blank check. Secondly, most of us on here take the early church writers (beyond the actual authors of the accepted Biblical canon) as very infor...

Were they really extra-Biblical? I would view them as a summary of the moral code of the Old Testament. Thank you, Lester. Could you expand on that a little, especially in light of Paul's consistent emphasis on freedom from the mandates of the Mosaic Law? Might it have been such a summary because i...

A couple questions for y'all. Why do you think the Jerusalem council only required 4 specific things of the Gentiles? And was there something special about these four things (previous mention, cultural issue, etc) that they settled on them in particular? And do you understand the Jerusalem council d...

I'm curious too, Boot. I'll agree Max started out seeming a bit arrogant and elusive (while, in fact, he's been much more polite and less in your face on MN than he was on MD, as far as I can tell unless I missed a run in between you two), but your seemingly persistent and rather aggressive attitude...

Some eternal security proponents would basically say that. Other eternal security proponents would say if you fall away you were never really saved. I've never understood how you could fall away from somewhere or something if you hadn't first gotten there... 8-) Also, I would humbly suggest that we...

This, right here and now, is your opportunity to not reply. Ah, the beauty of free will.

We thought that was your intention, based on your last comment or two.

If Plain Catholics exist, let's have direct, open discussion about them, where we can find them, how they live out their lives, why they would choose, of all things, Mennonite-inspired clothing and what that means to them. Let's not pretend that there is a group of Catholics that are just like Plai...