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It’s reasonable to believe that many Christians in Paul’s time used the Septuagint, which has the DC books. I think today’s arguments are constructed to support traditions that originated for different reasons. As the early church became more Greek than Jewish they naurally used the Septuagint...

Church of England votes against allowing women bishops. If you do a search you'll find several other sources. The only house that didn't give it 2/3 in 2012 was the lay. They voted for it 132 to 74. Not quite 2/3.

Vague how? The vote was very close in 2012. In one of three houses it was a few votes short of 2/3. By 2014 it was over 2/3. That doesn't seem particularly surprising.

No. But it's really on both sides. All it takes is one ill-considered statement to bring someone down. If you want an example of it on the right, look at what happens to people who supported the fact that the recent election was accurate. Contradict the Leader once and you're dead.

I think you want to be careful in citing Col 2:9. Read straightforwardly it actually suggests a model that at least verbally sounds Nestorian: that God is fully present in and through Jesus. It also uses "God" without qualification, so it would be consistent with a non-trinitarian concept of...

So let me try to explain. God works with his people in a variety of ways. First Century Judaism had many ways of talking about his presence. These included the Holy Spirit, and a set of what are sometimes called intermediate forms. Torah, Word, and Wisdom were spoken of as if they were separate...

I agree. The doctrine of the Trinity was created by people to summarize what the Bible says about God. It isn't, and isn't claimed to be, a complete explanation of God. While we don't understand God fully, if a human statement isn't intelligible it's a defect in that statement. A statement may...

Right. My only point was that the early tradition doesn't make Matthew the author of the current Gospel attached to his name. What it means is unclear. I've also seen a suggestion in a commentary that it didn't mean in the Hebrew language, but in the manner of Hebrew writing. Really, it's very...

Interesting. I've looked into it a bit more. There was an existing Air Force Space Command. It became the Space Force. So no one needed to be pulled from an existing job. It's still a part of department of the Air Force, under the secretary of the Air Force. I don't have any problem with the...

The early sources say that Matthew wrote something in Hebrew. Its more likely one source for what we have than the final form. I believe the earliest witness is that Matthew wrote a Gospel in the Hebrew language. It's unclear what the relationship between that and the current Gospel is.

She sort of apologized today. She noted that space is going to be an increasingly important area for our military, and said there are no plans to reconsider creation of the space force. I’m not convinced we needed a new branch of the military, but it’s probably not worth changing.

Or wives shouldn't have authority over their husbands. It could equally well be translated that way. It also makes more sense of the explanation. If you read 1 Tim 2:16 as about women in general, I think you end up with women not be trustworthy because they are more easily deceived. If you read...

Jesus also had a few women among his core group of followers. I'm not so sure there was much difference between the men and women. We don't have stories of how the women ended up in the group, while we do have call stories for a few of the men. But is there any reason to doubt that he called the...

Incidentally, NJ considers them in group 1A, although in practice they started with medical workers and nursing homes. Unfortunately we depended upon the Federal arrangements for nursing homes. Those have been a lot slower than everyone expected.

I wouldn't put them before those in various elderly care situations, but they have a risk almost as high, so I'd put them right after group 1a, which is medical workers and nursing homes.

Of course plenty of Republican leaders demonize liberals as well. Put together, these encourage tribalism. We need a president who sees dealing with tribalism as more important than defeating the other party. I'm not seeing many of either party who are willing to do that.

One of the most important things BIden needs to do is find a way to convince people in rural areas that the administration cares about them. Doing things that objectively help them isn't good enough. People don't vote based on likely outcomes but on who seems to be like them and sympathetic to...

This article contrasts responses. Rioters breached US Capitol security on Wednesday. This was the police response when it was Black protesters on DC streets last year. The big difference is in how authorities prepared. The last sentence in the article suggests that the White House decided that...

Yes, you've got to wonder why police weren't prepared, and didn't react. I believe there's going to be an investigation. It will be interesting to see what it turns up. It probably won't be a single decision that we can hang someone for, but rather a pattern of mistakes. That's how things...

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