That's a really good point. Ultimately, any NT canon that erases Pauline texts is going to (by consequence) include texts that otherwise didn't make it in. This is because they would've no longer been inconsistent with what the apostles already considered canonical. Since we know that Paul's...
Lack of official punitive capacity doesn't mean there's a lack of ethical understanding regarding what is "Godly" within the Jewish foundations of morality. Even if Paul's Epistles disappear, you're going to have a hard time justifying Christian teaching as being in-line with the way God has...
Right. Paul's texts are the ones that reference homosexuality the most. But if you're all doing is importing ethics from Judaism to supplement the missing moral instructions of Paul in Corinthians, then Paul's subsequent removal from the canon doesn't necessarily mean that Christianity is now a...
Theologically, if Arianism doesn't gain the traction it received OTL, then the Church is going to be far less prepared to deal with later Christological heresies that arose. Arianism was a definite "proving ground" for Christians to establish what the philosophical foundations were for the...
I think a lot of this discussion is contingent on whether or not you believe the early Church held to Sola Scriptura. If it didn't, you're gonna have a harder time justifying whether or not the Church should continue in regards to what it was teaching about ethics by the 16th century...
Theologically, what kind of distinction would we be looking at in regards to works-righteousness? Paul draws the distinction pretty early, building in Romans 1 and ending in Romans 8 before going into election/providence in Romans 9. The central theme, nonetheless, is that the benefits of the...
Yes - heavily influential, but not "evangelical" by any means. Many of its strong philosophical members during the 4th and 5th centuries took a Gnostic approach in regard to what they taught and learned however, i.e. "we're on the "inside" and you're on the "outside" and we'd like to keep it...
DISCLAIMER: Please do not incorporate any discussions on inerrancy/inspiration/preservation of the Scriptures in here by any means! This scenario is purely historical - not theological, ontological or philosophical.
So: what are the IMMEDIATE effects of an inability to faithfully preserve...
Hello readers! Wow, how time has flown. It is now nearly August of 2013. In November this timeline will reach a full year old and our young Republic has yet to even reach formal independence. Yikes, I have some work to do.
Just checking in and letting you know I'm all doing well. I'm still in...
Hello readers. I'm still here. Just giving you all an update and letting you know I'm alive and well. Hopefully I will be able to continue this timeline this summer. My prior statement still stands, however.
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http://www.alsa.mil/library/mttps/jfire.html
13F2PL7, 4.5 years
B Co. 1/505th PIR, 3rd BDE, 82nd ABN DIV
A Trp, 1/91st Cav (ABN), 173rd ABN BDE
AFG DEC 2009 - NOV 2010
AFG SEP 2011 - FEB 2012
"No skill involved" means you have very little concept of how modern warfare works. This...
My apologies to all of my readers. I've peacefully settled back in Minnesota and am currently enrolled in Saint Cloud State University where I've been pursuing both a B.S. and a B.A. in history simultaneously, so needless to say my spare time has been completely eaten up.
Upon further...