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-This is plainly fallacious reasoning. It would be just as fallacious to presume things that have nothing to do with the definition of Sola Ekklesia only on the grounds that Catholic denominations do this or that. Sola Scriptura is not an interpretation, it is a method. It has literally zero to...

The confusion here is, I have come to believe, either a misleading concept of or a lack of distinction between ecclesiastical and ecumenical concerns. Both are integral to the Church as they serve crucial purposes in the Body of the Bride, yet often one is overblown in scope to the extent that...

The underlined has yet to be demonstrated anywhere here.

The Tanakh already existed. Neither does one need to possess all of the canonical scriptures in order to recognize Holy Writ as being more than human literature or oral traditions. While all of the books weren't individually enumerated, categories of books were recognized as...

Paul regards us as "true Israel" in the book of Romans. Esau's descendants were removed from the blessings of the covenant seed of Abraham. As the Lord Jesus may well have described it: "I cut those branches out and threw them in the fire." The only authentic Jews have been OT people who truly...

We are all responsible if we reject Christ. Also, we are all flawed, rebellious, and comparatively dull.

Statements directed towards a specific group aren't necessarily binding for all of Christendom. Otherwise we'd end up with quite a peculiar and contradictory concept of Christianity. That James considered the Noahide Laws important for association between Jewish Christians and Gentile Christians...

Scales aren't segments.

Don't sweat it. I'll let you form your thoughts to your satisfaction before digging very much into anything you've presented here. Okay. If anything is unclear you have only to ask. That's fine. I'm accustomed to using technical terms because of their precision, and the continuity of thought...

Would you say, in light of this, that such teachings that are peripheral to or even partially deleterious to the Gospel, have the affect of making the Good News less efficacious? Does a general message with these elements included still contain the Gospel? And are these issues not a direct...

Given your statements here, how do you understand Romans 14?

It is a daunting pitfall. The irony of it is that they themselves are not equipped to truly understand Holy Writ either. No one is. Attempting to control our exposure to it is a great folly, because with that attitude comes the underlying implication that it isn't true how any level of...

I am truly sorry if you took my words in the spirit of an indictment or rebuke. I was uncertain of your meaning and intent, so I wanted to see to what extent we agree about "mere Christianity".

While I understand and can sympathize with your sentiments here, how far do the contours of soteriology (salvation theology) extend? Simply because other Christians have differing views of how Scripture is defined and what relationship it has to tradition, does it mean they that teach a...

I wouldn't so quickly make light of this doctrine through that tact. Yes, transubstantiation is an Aristotelian concept, and consubstantiation has every appearance of being naught but a vacillation away from it while still maintaining this element of mysticism, but as fellow Christians we must...

How is Purgatory necessary for God to accomplish restoration in a person no longer bound by carnality? If He can justify so many people in a short space of time during the Atonement, what need is there for all of this on our part and all of this time spent by God and His subjects, in order to...

Please do demonstrate how. Especially keeping in mind your own word here, "only". Using these passages in the sense that they imply Purgatory is also allowing the direct implication that the Atonement is not efficacious to establish justification. That Catholic theologians appear to vacillate...

More like it's difficult for believers to think that theopnustos, the very breath of God gifting His teachings to the world, has been sullied by unfaithful servants.

And this directly implies Purgatory how? Seems to me that Catholics need to brush up on their exegesis and hermeneutics if they think that constitutes support. This is an exceedingly vague reference at best, and no where in the text is an actual place mentioned. That Jesus started the Church...

Well, my friend, here's a little primer on how Reformed Christianity views the formation of the canon of scripture. I would have composed some statements here for you, because it really is a worthy question, but I do need to get ready for church now. Have to go to Sunday school in just a bit.