[Mad Dawg]

I would still say that circumcision of the heart is basic and the only needed requirement for salvation, and everything else is the rules of the organization, whether for preaching with authority or for membership.

The Holy Spirit will lead us into truth (in his own sweet time -- Mad Dawg gloss).

I like this.

I am gestating a meditation (as part of my famed Veritas series, soon to me a major motion picture) on Veritas et Fides. The image that I cannot escape is this. Take two tuning forks of the same pitch. Strike one. Soon the other will vibrate as well. The first is Truth (who is a person, not a proposition). The second is faith.

and the gift is (a) exogenous and (b)inexplicable (though not indescribable.) One just discovers a, what, an openness. And, if one is at all smart, one is grateful for it, and them TO Him who gave it.

But (papist tug at the sleeve coming up) that doesn't make one a teacher.

A pleasure to exchange thoughts with you this ridiculously humid day.

[esquirette]

Take two tuning forks of the same pitch. Strike one. Soon the other will vibrate as well. The first is Truth (who is a person, not a proposition). The second is faith.

and the gift is (a) exogenous and (b)inexplicable (though not indescribable.) One just discovers a, what, an openness. And, if one is at all smart, one is grateful for it, and them TO Him who gave it.
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Amen. That analogy brought tears to my eyes. I am appropriating it for evangelical purposes immediately. Thanks.