In studying this passage I realized it wasn't the
common understanding of the words in the sense of turning
away. No, he had to deviate from the path he was on, go out of the way,
detour, and purposely seek out what this was, altering his course from then
on.
This reminds me of something one
Each
claim that there is a personal God, who created the universe and man, and if
man participates in the sacraments of their religion, he will achieve
everlasting life.
Dear Steve,
I'm afraid this person is poorly informed as to the tenets of these religions.
Only Christianity has sacraments.
Dear Susan,
I think the problem has largely been that Protestants have read Paul though the eyes of St. Augustine and Luther. Bishop Stendahl talks about this in his article "Paul and the Western Introspection" which can be found in his book *Paul Among the Jews and the Gentiles.
I don't have
Dear Ron,
Your recent post was thought-provoking; I enjoyed it
very much. Here are my responses to some of your points:
We, as a community, seem to me to be rejecting science,
insisting on literal infallibility of our Writings in all domains,
and trumping all other evidence, logic, and
True, it's a mishmash and I didn't get passed the intro (online on
publishers site). But the 'virtue' is that the secular opponent here is
seeing the continuity between the Judaeo-Christo-Islamo-Baha'i religions and
giving the Baha'i Faith relative equality with its sister religions, even if
he
Hi, Susan,
At 04:54 PM 11/20/2004, you wrote:
I think the problem has largely been that Protestants have read Paul though
the eyes of St. Augustine and Luther. Bishop Stendahl talks about this in his
article Paul and the Western Introspection which can be found in his book
*Paul Among the Jews
