>> I appreciate that you replied without slandering Catholics or the Pope, or engaged in hysterics as many others have done.
No problem. I have nothing against the Pope or Catholics. The Pope is a very educated theologian, and his ideas and interpretations are certainly noteworthy. Not guaranteed accurate, but certainly well educated.
Catholics are a different side of the same coin. My contention is that God gave us His word so that we may do our best to live by whatever we think is the appropriate interpretation of its tenets. For those areas in which our interpretations are erroneous — thank God for Salvation, for scriptural misinterpretation is but one of many sins I’ll have rung up by the time He calls my name.
So, Catholics have their interpretation, and Baptists have theirs ... we each think we’re right. In reality, we’re probably both mistaken about something.
For the most part, we’re on the same side anyway.
>> BTW, where does your current FReeper handle come from?The Unit.
“The Unit” — a CBS TV Show about a Delta Force Team deployed for special ops. The field code-name of the lead character (Dennis Haysbert) is “Snake Doctor”. I thought it sounded cool — and it had military significance, however tangential.
SnakeDoc
The Catholics would not agree there is a symmetry like that; we would point out that our interpretation is in harmony with the Early Church, hence it is authentic.