[cloudmountain]

Well you put me in quite a spot. The reasons are numerous. First, what I am changes not one jot or tittle of Jesus’ prayer in John 17. If I were the pope—the first woman pope, no less—John 17 would still be the inspired Word of God, useful for teaching, edification, exhortation and consolation.

If I were a flaming liberal, ditto. There is no liberal alive who can change one word in the Bible. I.e.: they can rant against the Bible, but the inspired words remain. Nothing in it changes just because there are liberals in the world.

The next problem is that, being a conservative, I don’t like the ‘jump through my hoops, on my command’ routine. Who are you, to interrogate me? I have a record on FR going back to 2000. Over 10,000 posts. Anyone can read them. That being so, why should I cough up all your neat little answers just so you know whether you need to accept God’s word, as conveyed in the 17th chapter of Gospel or John, or not?

Well put.

[Fantasywriter]

Thanks, cm. Strange times, when you can’t post a few vss of Scripture without all craziness breaking loose.