[malakhi]

Yours is an especially radical brand of study of Scripture that would equal the radicalism of say vmatt's Christology. If only what you define as the "literal" word of God (that which has no alternate theories of composition) is theopneustos, then we've got nothing. We've built all doctrine on some shifting sand, including Catholic doctrine. You can say the Church authority remains, but without any Scriptural background (where you view swiftly leads) it crumbles soon enough into the rubble of historical-critical scholarship.

Thank you, bass. This is exactly what I was wishing to express.

[malakhi]

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that I don't expect I'll be around as much over the next week. I'm taking off of work the week of Thanksgiving, and so this looks to be a really busy week for me. I'll check in as I have time, though.

In the meantime, I wanted to let you know that I think the newspaper cartoonists are reading our discussion. I found the following in this past Saturday's newspaper:

BigMack, Becky, have you been holding out on us? ;o) I about fell out of my chair when I saw this on the editorial page!

And then I saw this on the funny page. What're the odds?

The last one is not as directly related, but was still funny: