[OLD REGGIE]

I guess I was doomed to be Catholic. it seems to me the Bible comes to us as the Queen of traditions -- of things handed down. She is attended by other traditions which assist in making her known, as a queen might be attended by ladies, some competent, some not so much.Which adds up to: I don't care who wrote which bits. I mean, I'm interested, but I don't care.

Is that wrong? ;-)

Frankly, I have no idea whether it's completely right, completely wrong, or a combination of "right" and "not right". In all likelihood that is the reason I evolved into a Unitarian? While I am relatively certain that our Scripture is not "perfect" in it's choice of words, books included, and books excluded, I have come to accept it as "sufficient". (Is that wrong?)

(Ask me sometime about my belief in the importance of Mary Magdalene in the miniistry of Jesus, her role in the pre and post ressurection of Jesus, and the possible "jealousy" of males who wrote her out of Scripture.)

[Mad Dawg]

When you have said you are a UNitarian, I have always thought you meant NOT that you were a member of this or that group but that you were NOT in the Nicene strand.

I am not ready to nail some statement to the mast, but I think of the Bible as a book (or books) in a context. So I guess that would suggest that it is not "sufficient" because it does not -- in this line of thought -- stand alone.

But, as I say, I'm just mulling this thing over.

and ask ME why Dominicans claim a special relationship of patronage with the Magdalene who is, as we say,"the apostle to the apostles".