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To: Teófilo
I examine the spirits, and retain what is good. There’s much that is useful in these methods.

No there isn't. It didn't exist until the nineteenth century. Are you telling me that a pure flight of fancy that is only two hundred years old for which proof is inherently impossible has anything positive to contribute vis a vis the immemorial Tradition?

A surgeon’s scalpel is a tool for good in skilled hands, a tool for evil in the hands of a murderer. It’s all in how you use the tools.

This is a pure non-sequitur. See above.

Sola Scriptura, KJV-Only, Fundamentalist Baptists have more in common with Islam that with historical Christianity. And that’s history for you. ;-)

And islam is closer to the Truth than historical chr*stianity.

I don't suppose you've ever heard of Torah min Shamayyim?

10 posted on 11/03/2009 6:31:45 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Vatabbet 'ishto me'acharayv; vatehi netziv melach.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
No there isn't. It didn't exist until the nineteenth century. Are you telling me that a pure flight of fancy that is only two hundred years old for which proof is inherently impossible has anything positive to contribute vis a vis the immemorial Tradition?

Yes. As long as it doesn't replace immemorial Tradition. But then again we differ on what "immemorial Tradition" is.

This is a pure non-sequitur. See above.

It's only a non-sequitur if we accept your answer as the only possible, true answer. But that's what we're discussing aren't we? Your argument is circular and non-probative. A "non-sequitur" in its own right. Let's move on, shall we?

And islam is closer to the Truth than historical chr*stianity.

Then we disagree. Profundly.

I don't suppose you've ever heard of Torah min Shamayyim?

No, but I've heard of "Torah Min-Hashamayim." Might be a matter of simple spelling and transliteration from the Hebrew.

"The Torah from Heaven," the title of Abraham Joshua Heschel's theological masterpiece. Heschel is a highly-respected theologian on both sides of the Jewish-Christian divide. But, although I've heard of the work, I haven't read it, nor do I know why is it relevant to the divine inspiration and integrity of the Koran, or to the acuity of KJV-Only, Independent, Fundamentalists Baptist a la Pensacola Bible Institute.

You will have to elucidate.

-Theo

11 posted on 11/04/2009 12:20:50 PM PST by Teófilo (Visit Vivificat! - http://www.vivificat.org - A Catholic Blog of News, Commentary and Opinion)
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