[berned]

Christians are REQUIRED to give a ready answer for what they believe. Polycarp adamantly refuses to do this. This is not about fighting or arguing. This is about Polycarp refusing to answer a simple question.

1Pe 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

[Myrnick]

I agree. But while you have hammered on Polycarp for failing to answer (to your satisfaction) some questions about Mary's whereabouts on the weekend of resurrection, you have also failed to engage him on his point potentially refuting the legitimacy of this archeological find - in Post #131.

I for one would like to think this is a genuine find. I can even convince myself that the second "hand" is the result of a second person coming along and adding a detail he was familiar with which the carver neglected. But you haven't even given Polycarp the benefit of that shaky theory, let alone any rock solid proof that this is the ossuary of THE James. You've allowed your sight to be clouded by a doctrinal point which in the end, likely won't matter much.

[=Intervention=]

Yes, we do have to give an answer for what we believe, but posting perpetually tangential attacks is simply HERETICAL. Paul states to beware the man who goes about creating factions. Whether RC's are Christian is *NOT*, I repeat *NOT* the point of this thread. YOU, sir, are giving Christians a bad name. I am reporting you for abuse.