tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post4148978457792994359..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: The big Roman Catholic apologetic thumb on the scalesRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-46398549780435205212015-01-26T05:11:22.653-05:002015-01-26T05:11:22.653-05:00Thanks John. Without answering the question, you a...Thanks John. Without answering the question, you answered it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05323613617701622125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-64628266761896179342015-01-24T14:22:29.901-05:002015-01-24T14:22:29.901-05:00Hi Ted -- Thanks for your comments here and on the...Hi Ted -- Thanks for your comments here and on the other thread. I truly appreciate it. <br /><br />I haven't had time to read your entire article, although I've looked at your website earlier. I am not quite comfortable with the word "mandate" -- I understand you may be using it rhetorically -- and let me give you an example. I have gained a tremendous amount of respect for "the Reformed confessions". However, I do think that there are some who use the confessions as a tool to coerce behavior in one way or another. A good thing, and maybe even with the best of intentions, used in ways that people can be harmed. I also think that "unity" (in a sense beyond the way that Steve defined it above) may be going too far. It is Christ who "build[s] my church". It's his job, and when we presume to be doing his job, I think problems can result from that. <br /><br />I'm going to get into that in the next piece about Allison's work. I continue to disagree with you that Allison was "dishonest" in claiming that his assessment was "an evangelical assessment". He does not claim it is "the" evangelical assessment -- and he even allows that there may be other "evangelical assessments". It's not his role, in the space of this work, to say what every evangelical assessment might be. He's simply saying, "I'm an evangelical, these are my beliefs, they are fairly representative, but not totally representative, of evangelical beliefs. But here is what we say about Rome". And in the process, Allison has done a service for the church, has provided something for the contemporary church, that nobody has ever done before. And people can (and will) build on his work. There are small flaws, but I can't really take issue with them.John Bugayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728044301053738095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-3402971752028396542015-01-24T11:56:30.077-05:002015-01-24T11:56:30.077-05:00Thanks John. I really appreciate what you and Stev...Thanks John. I really appreciate what you and Steve have written here. Could the methodological argument from CtC, as you've outlined, be called Fideism? I mean, it takes a blind faith on one level, and a rejection of the NT on another.....<br /><br />One thing though, that we should see assuming the inevitability of "The more that more Christians live [and are taught] according to God's word, the more they convergeā is actual, physical, converging - i.e., merging of churches. <br /><br />Not only is this what it means to converge in a physical, flesh and blood world, but only such unity can fulfill the NT ethic of loving one another and ministering our gifts to one another. I've written on it here: http://www.churchsonefoundation.com/the-ephesian-mandate/<br /><br />In your opinion, is that kind of converging taking place?<br /><br />Thank you for all you do. - T<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05323613617701622125noreply@blogger.com