Please, I do not have time to respond to everything. I am asking one simple question. It doesn’t matter at this point where you draw the lines on the narrowing details. I am asking, in principle, whether God’s word trumps every other source of truth claims. I understand we disagree on canon, etc. That is not part of the question. Your math students, if you ask them whether the quadratic equation, as a form, accomplishes certain things, they do not need to answer with all the variables filled in, do they? This is not a hard question. I am stunned you are providing encyclopedic treatises, when this question is so easy to answer. As an attorney, I would look at these as unresponsive, and I would so urge the judge to consider them. Here, I leave it to the reader to make their own judgment. I can proceed no further without an agreement that the living word of God must be the supreme source of truth. I am sorry.
Peace,
SR
SR,
With all due respect: you’re getting a little random, here. Any good lawyer knows that definitions are critically important, when arguing a case; if your client’s action does not technically fit the definition of “aggravated assault”, that’s very relevant, and it directly affects your actions/decisions from that point... and so on.
Here’s a clear, straight-forward question (which I’ve asked you at least once, already, and you haven’t touched): when you say “God’s Word”, are you referring to the 66-book Protestant Bible (and it alone), or are you not? It’s a very simple question... and you’re being rather evasive, for reasons which I don’t quite understand.
Isn’t it logical to settle the definition of “God’s Word” before talking about its authority? If we mean two different things by the term, then we’ll be talking past each other... pointlessly.
Now, if you’d rather not answer (for whatever reason). that’s your right... but at that point, I’ll have to go with what you said at the end, and say that I’m not sure that any further substantial discussion could happen between us, on this point.
Could you at least CONSIDER answering that question, as a gesture of goodwill?