02-24-2011, 10:46 PM
dr p Wrote:@Judge: do you feel free to disregard the opinions of elder statesmen of the church?
Yes I feel free to. Sometimes they were wrong. Sometimes they held views but expressed that they weren't sue that that must be correct. And sometimes they were probably right.
So the only sensible tbhing todo is to feel free to disregard things.
Quote: I don't follow everything those men wrote,
Does that mean you feel free to disregard some things?
Quote:but Solomon was under divine inspiration when he wrote "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding (Proverbs 3.5)."
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Quote:If the majority of Christendom holds to a position, one would be well advised not to lightly dismiss it.
Im not sure how we decide how we know when the majority holds something, much less if it's agood idea to follow them.
Perosnally I feel very comfortable dismissing a lot of christian "orthodox" doctrine. I have spent a lot of time arriving at that position, so probably didnt do it too lightly. But thats just me and probably off topic, but Im happy to duscuss in another place.
Im not sure if this forum is the place though.
Quote: Then again, if you have a scholarly , believing, and compelling reason to question the P/A, I'd be curious to examine it.
I dont really, though I suspect that there would be scholars that think so. I tend to think at present,that the peshitta represents the purest form of the NT, but it doesn't seem important to me if that is not the case.