tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post145452893798715704..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Evading Sola FideRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-77533107033396447562008-05-27T00:49:00.000-04:002008-05-27T00:49:00.000-04:00Hi Jason,The frustration that you experienced with...Hi Jason,<BR/><BR/>The frustration that you experienced with Nick's reasoning ability or lack thereof is the same ones that I experienced. In boldface from your previous post:<BR/><BR/>"The readers should note at this point that I gave multiple reasons for concluding that the tax collector in Luke 18 was unjustified prior to the event Jesus describes. <B>Nick has ignored most of what I said.</B><BR/><BR/>Nick writes:<BR/><BR/>"Fortunately, the parable nowhere mentions faith, is not focused on faith, and thus the phrase 'justifying faith involves more than that' will have to be proven elsewhere rather than this parable."<BR/><BR/>I explained how Luke 18 implies the presence of faith, whereas it doesn't imply the presence of something like baptism. You've ignored what I said. <B>Simply repeating your earlier comment that faith isn't mentioned in Luke 18 doesn't address the evidence I cited that faith is implied.</B> Faith doesn't have to be mentioned in order to be implied. As I said before, the idea that Jesus was commending a tax collector who had no faith is ridiculous (Hebrews 11:6). How many times in the gospels does Jesus commend people for their faith? And we're supposed to believe that faith isn't implied in Luke 18, as if He's commending a faithless tax collector and referring to this faithless person as justified? Your response above is another illustration of why I refer to "Roman Catholic desperation"."<BR/><BR/>Jason, when I think of how Nick interprets and understands the Parable of the Tax Collector and the Pharisee, I'm reminded of this: "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear" (Matthew 11:15; 13:9, 43; Mark 4:9,23; 7:16; Luke 8:8; 14:35).Truth Unites... and Divideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08891402278361538353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-54056383140362216802008-05-25T17:14:00.000-04:002008-05-25T17:14:00.000-04:00GeneMy apology for being off-topic but I had poste...Gene<BR/><BR/>My apology for being off-topic but I had posted to my blog last year and brought it forward today. I had used the phrase "functional unitarianism" and had since found your use of it. I would like your comment to my recent post. http://watchinghidtory.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>I am not a scholar at all and just an arm chair theologian but very interested in theology.WatchingHISstoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10339668990091164802noreply@blogger.com