I will have to re-read everything. Part of the reason I stopped and never came back to it is because I gave you specific verses to back up my arguments and you totally ignored them (#74). You never went pasts my first paragraph. Why should I spend time and energy researching my notes only to have them ignored. My post #71 is pretty lengthy and is full of quotes.
For instance the one where Jesus tells his disciples "your God and my God." His God?!? It seems you never even saw something as provocagtive as that verse is. For if you did, I can't imagine that you wouldn't respond.
It's like you never even read it.
But I will go back to your post #60 and see what I left out. The reason I had to break it is because it took so long to put together than I couldn't do it in one sitting , and when I realized that all that work was going to just go over like a lead balloon, I saw no reason to continue.
You wrote:It's like you never read it.
Blush. I admit it, I reacted at first because my arguments were dismissed because of two Pauline references in parentheses--not even essential to the points I was making. At any rate, I have read it and am even meditating a bit on St. John of Damascus. Another reason I didn't respond to 71 more thorougly (77 was a partial response) is because there is a lot to respond to. You know how to pack a ping!!!