This is not the gospel. At all. I actually had a teacher--no Tridentine papist, mind you--say when lecturing on Psalm 24:4, "If you say this is Jesus who does it all for us, I'm going to slap you." And good for him. Because that isn't what it says. Paging Fred Noltie! For all the Rome jokes, and the cracks about Borg marching orders, I'm here to tell you, mother Church's grid is pretty wide open. You get the big stuff right, you can interpret the Bible to your heart's content. It's this grid that is limiting and authoritarian. I don't even recognize this figure of Jesus you are attempting to fashion. Someone should say it.
Hilarious Com-Box Quote of The Day: "I was caught immediately because it is the Acts of the Apostles, not the Acts of the Holy Spirit Acting Erratically."--Donald Todd, reacting to the inartful opposition of the Holy Spirit and the Magisterium. Mark Galli, an editor at Christianity Today, had suggested that today's "confusion" in evangelicalism replicates a confusion on the day of Pentecost. Mr. Todd commented after this reply , and the original article is here. My thoughts: By what means was this Church-less "consensus" formed? If the Council did not possess the authority to adjudicate such questions, who does? If the Council Fathers did not intend to be the arbiters, why do they say that they do? At the risk of being rude, I would define evangelicalism as, "Whatever I want or need to believe at any particular time." Ecclesial authority to settle a particular question is a step forward, but only as long as, "God alone is Lord of the con
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