[matthewrobertolson]

Please don’t quote me a Catholic article in this. I don’t believe in your approach. It is weak and indefensible.

And this is coming from the guy that insists that the first Christian community was Baptist, in defiance of history and with no credible support, who also refuses to consider any evidence that proves him wrong?

[imardmd1]

And this is coming from the guy that insists that the first Christian community was Baptist, in defiance of history and with no credible support, who also refuses to consider any evidence that proves him wrong?

Take your Bible, and find in it any passages that--interpreted with a literal, grammatical, historical, cultural hermeneutic--proves me wrong.

Take your footing, shear from it any reference to extra-biblical fallible tradition, and rests only on Biblical truths, that proves your position Scriptural.

Paul's gospel is my gospel. It stands solely on the Scriptures revealed to him and his fellow apostles, and explained by them. Yours is not, and cannot stand without extra layers of post-apostolic excuses, IMHO.