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## Livyatan is the Ugaritic monster Lotan, "tyrant of the seven heads", & the "fleeing serpent" whom JHWH will slay. Lotan/Leviathan is part of the recipe for the GRD in Rev.12

## In Fundyworld, they are useful as tests of whether someone is a True Christian(TM). No liberal is or can be a TC No TC can be a liberal All theologies are liberal that do not affirm the absolute inerrancy of the Bible in a Fundamentalist sense No one is welcome to Fundyworld except...

## Harnack was a liberal - but Bultmann ? Hardly. Unless the assessment is from a Fundamentalist POV: but in that case, every scholar who is not a Fundamentalist is a liberal. There are so many gratuitous assumptions & misrepresentation in the text pasted above, that there is no point on...

## Er...no. I Tim. 2.5 is very important. Actually, no sole mediation of Christ would mean no mediation by the Church. That of the Church is contained in that of Christ, which is not exhausted by or equivalent to or identical with it Being Catholic does not entail, require, necessitate or...

## The idea that people don't know their own intentions, makes no sense. If it's valid, then for all we know, we could all be adoring Satan. All of us on earth, all Christians of all time included. Therefore, without being aware of it, St. Paul was really a Satanolater. This is what comes of...

## In a sane Church, that would stop the "Santo subito" stuff in its tracks :) Why does that photo remind me of the Duck Song ?

## Pietism I've heard of - but not in that form :)

## Because the Church, which ought to be a support, all too readily becomes a split reed that pierces the hand. Things shouldn't be that way - but life does not follow what should be the case.

## That's a serious liturgical abuse :( except in case of emergency (though even that is going much too far IMO). Only Catholics in good standing & in a state of grace are permitted to receive the Eucharist - "holy things for the holy".

## :thumbsup: No disagreement there, at least :) It's the bishops & ecumaniacs in authority who are the problem, & who won't face facts. Not us.

## The slaying of the prophets of Baal by Elijah :) ? The OT is full of such ecumenism LOL The Abomination of Balamand - see here for some Orthodox re-actions to it: Ecumenism Awareness: The Balamand Agreement is an excellent example of the deceptiveness of ecumenicalism. Strange, that...

## We can't fulfil what he says in Matt 5.48 - that's the point. And He was not talking to Christians. Paul is, but Jesus is taking to Jews, & should be understood within that context. Jesus radicalised the Torah, but He was always a Jew. Dispensationalists sense, rightly, that Jesus & Paul...

## Whatever God wants them to be. No one answer is going to fit everyone's circumstances.

## Maybe he/she deserved it. ## They are not the same at all - the one replaces the other. St. Paul makes that clear. ## That's fine for God to do, but it asks too much of human nature. Loving enemies merely makes one more vulnerable to them - and 9 times out of 10 it does no good anyway. It...

## It's a pity he had to be so emphatic in Matthew 16.28 & 24.34. Going all out to give the impression that what you say is a certainty, & then delaying, not by generation, but by 60 generations, is not impressive. Well, it is - but not in the right way. Maybe those verses were put in the mouth...

## It's a Christian borrowing from the OT & inter-testamental idea that the Kingdom would be realised on earth by an ideal Messianic kingdom ruled by a (sometimes Davidic) Messiah-king (or line of Davidic kings); after which the Messiah would either die, or render up the Kingdom to God for...

## I know the feeling well - it re-inforces my natural cynicism :) Some ideas are so completely-off-the-wall, round the bend & up the twist, that I just ignore them: they are obviously wrong, so aren't a problem. Incredibility & absurdity are possibilities not for theology alone, but for any...

## Which may however reflect not the true date of the Crucifixion, but the theology of John, who seems to be quite happy to fit chronology to the meaning he is seeking to get across. He is not reluctant to have a very different date for the Cleansing of the Temple; he moves it to near the...

## The alphabet wasn't invented until 1700* BC or so - long after Enoch's presumed date: Ancient Scripts: Proto-Sinaitic *But see also: http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/111499sci-alphabet-origin.html

## That was all said at a time when the knowledge of cuneiform, as well as of how to read it, had been lost. Happily, that is no longer the case. It looks like this: "Assyrian" is now called Akkadian (see Gen.10.10). Cuneiform was used by Sumerian, then adopted by Akkadian - the Semitic...