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a man asked Jesus, "Master what must I do to have eternal life" Jesus told him: "Love God with all your heart,all your sould and all your mind Love your neighbor as you love yourself Keep the commandments" So show me a human who loves God, serves and loves his neghbor and lives a...

There are both broad and narrow answers to your questions. The Church is us, it was founded by the incarnate God on the shoulders of men. In a way this answers your final question, is the Church what Jesus intended. Yes (all of it). He gave it into our hands to make the church, so what we made...

I can't and won't presume to speak for God. Holy Scripture gives us God's complete revelation to man, but that almost certainly doesn't mean that we know all there is to know of God. What scripture seems to reveal is that God holds man accountable for how he lives his life. Under the covenant...

I am familar with Romans (as are all Christians), I have come to different conclusions then you have. Explain this, in light of the OP. If your inturpretation of St. Paul is correct (and, being correct may be used to supercede the teachings of Jesus) then: How is this moral? We are promised...

There are, in fact, many people (mostly in Old Eire) who do believe in the Little People. They arrive at that belief in the same manner that I arrived in my beief that there is a God, that he became man. That he taught us the complete path to sanctity, and that he died in utter defeat at the...

If man is in "bondage to the law of sin", and thus can not, by his will seek to be virtious, then how is ANY punishment by God justified? Can God be declared merciful, loving and just if he punishes a creature for doing that which it is incapable of abstaining from?

And personally believe it ought to be part of the Christian canon, in my own life I treat it as such. I reccomend it to anyone as a very holy tretise on being a Christian.

Then we must also believe him about the other 590. Moses assures us that all of the Law came from God, not just the Ten. I agree with you that the Ten Commandments are singular, and the direct expression of the will of God, but to dismiss the remainder is hard to support. First of all the Law...

First, I was unaware that so complete a copy exists. There are a number of referances to the Gospel in early church history, and it was considered (and rejected) for inclusion in the canon. I had always understood that no more then a few fragments survived. What is your source for this extensive...

Your on, St Bede's 1350 W. Ina Rd, Tucson, AZ. Service starts at 9:30. The really interesting theological discussions don't start until coffee hour (which often stretches into several hours) in the rectory. :wave:

Many hold that view, but I think it is inarguable that he DID change the law. The Law consists of over 600 admonshions that govern everything from agriculture to washing your cloths. Jesus wiped almost all of that away and replaced it with "Love God, Love your neighbor and keep the...

Jesus was changeing the law, as it was promised he would do. Recall that Moses promised that another would come to make a new covenant. To me the ressurection of Jesus marked the end of the process of creation, God wrought man and ordered his world. For the coming eons he perfected that...

Is why else she might weep. That Jesus might love, comfort and care for the least of the people of the City, love and joy simply to be in the presence of the Holy One of God. Tears often come to my eyes in Church at the moment that I consecrate the bread and wine - from the shere joy that...

Especially since the conclusion I have come to is the polar oppositie of yours. I understand that as a Pauline scholar yourself the writings of Paul loom large in your thinking. After a lot of prayer, study and discussions I have concluded that only the teachings of Jesus truly matter (The...

I got the impression that you were conservative (at least on some issues) from other exchanges we have shared in other threads. Obviously you know your mind far better than I do, so I shall certainly defer to you as to where you fall on the spectrum I am not certain that "academic...

First, you seem to have an issue with Catholics (they come up again and again in your posts). While I am not a Roman Catholic, but rather an Utrecht Catholic I think you may want to pray on letting go. The "catholics" organised the cannon becasue at the time they were the ONLY Christian church...

You pre-suppose that liberal Christian beliefs and pagan beliefs are close enough that they need to be demarked. My experience is that conservative Chrstian thought is far closer to classical Paganism. Liberal Christians tend to be opposed to violence, whereas many conservative Christians seem...

That's just a blatant misconception - I'll always settle for indentured servent or seriously wounded. Says so in the bible....

As an American I can notr even rejoice that justice was done, becasue it wasn't - we take pride that we are a nation of laws, not men. We presume innocence (well, we used to in the pre-bush era). This man was an enemy in war, he was killed as such. I am glad that his crimes have ended, but join...

New Oxford Study, New Jerusalem, Douy Reims and for poetry - King James.