- Thank you for proving my point with your post. You did exactly as I wrote you would.
As for "decisive", yes, he is often enough that.
For the rest of the characterizations of what dan most often does here on, you just further established that it is himself whom is more correct in the overall course of this last exchange, though I'll grant that ultimately --- you were correct enough in saying I don't answer to you, for no one present here is that One ultimate judge.
Yet meanwhile, back at the ranch, as you said
- "This forum is for discussion"
is the very thing dan has long worked at engaging in here, though few are willing to take him up on it...oftentimes making it all personal against himself (if not entirely ignoring him) -- which then helps to lead to himself asking personal questions which are not attacks, yet are effort to require a person to think and consider what the ramifications are for whatever else they had just been speaking towards or else supporting.
1 Corinthians 11:19 [check the commentaries]
And what has there been for many centuries (since the 16th at least) but there having been one particular ecclesiastical community holding forth that itself alone could unilaterally dismiss all others, along with any and all arguments raised -- not necessarily against God, or the Gospel of Christ, but complaints raised primarily against itself instead which are neither (God, or the Gospel).
At the same time that "it" would (and still attempts to) point towards how in centuries yet even more distant past, disputes were settled in Church Council even though those Councils of earliest times this one ecclesia whom presumes to have settled all disputes already, did not order to be commenced, nor did they preside over those Councils, and more often than not ---- it would not be one from among their own ecclesia making and presenting the arguments which won the day, in the first places(s).
Yet this one ecclesia presents itself as the only ecclesiastical community (there were 7 Churches in Asia addressed in book of Revelation, there were multiple churches in widely scattered locales, and although then altogether considering themselves One Church --- yet one in which no "pope" in or from 'Rome' OR FROM ANY OF THE OTHER churches presided over all the rest in ultimate earthly authority, as head, etc., showing Rome to have become in it's own ways something of a heretic and schismatic, whom none can seem to approach unless in complete surrender to that one's principles of sola ecclesia, as defined unilaterally by themselves (alone).
And so discussion must still proceed.
Here on FR we discuss these things among ourselves.
For folks around here who can't hack discussing concepts such as these, there are waa-bulances standing by...
no worries as for that one though... cute as she was and as acute the intended treatment, Bill called and canceled.