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I may be very fond of Calvin but take exception to many things he wrote. Once again and in small words: John Calvin was not a pope.

You better ping your standard bearer OP back to this thread. You've undercut so many of his fine apologetic efforts and individual debate victories, and the excellent debating points he fought so hard to win, that if you continue you will further erode the OP position credibility beyond even OPie's talents to repair.

My opinions do not change OPie's arguments in the least. My understanding of certain matters may be different than his. There are very few areas where I think I can equal his broad grasp of doctrine and its history. He is a trained debater and a strong logician. And he is excellent with the search engines. I am doing well if I can occasionally find a few nuggets of history or writings that he and some of the others have not already discovered.

As much as I like and respect OPie, as much as he has done to help illuminate certain concepts and scripture and the history of doctrine in various traditions, he is not my pope. I doubt you grasp this but OPie would undoubtedly consider himself to be a failure if I treated him like some sort of pope. I think that would worry him more than almost anything else a person could say.

[Sorry, OPie, but you did probably already suspect that you aren't a pope. Anyway, it's just as well or we'd have to start calling you 'pOPpie' instead. Still, it does have a certain ring to it...]