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Okay, I think what is happening there is that you are allowing how you have been taught to understand those selected verses to skew your understanding of the rest of the New Testament, rather than letting the rest of the New Testament correct and calibrate your understanding of those verses...

Yeah, Nestorianism and Miaphysitism aren't really a rejection of something central to the Gospel the way Arianism is. We all agree that Jesus is both 100% God and 100% human, it's just a squabble about the precise terminology to use. Or it looks that way to me at least. I'll address the rest of...

Let's try this from another tack. What do you understand that passage to be describing as having happened? I say it's about the Gospel being preached to a representative of the Ethiopian Jewish community. And you?

Peter was the leader of the Jerusalem church, yes. But he never behaved as if he believed himself to have the sort of authority that the Roman Catholics claim for their popes. Peter had to justify his actions to the other apostles. But yes, they decided some things in councils - not with one...

Are you asking me how reading comprehension works? It's a narrative passage - it describes a sequence of events. People doing things and saying things. We can discuss what the eunuch meant by what he said, but that's all it was: what that guy said. The conversation was recorded by Luke, the...

I have already answered you. Refusing to listen and just repeating yourself over and over proves nothing. Everyone else reading this discussion probably has no trouble understanding that what the eunuch could not know from reading the Book of Isaiah, was about how Jesus had fulfilled those...

Insightful. I'm getting the same feeling myself.

Now for those unfamiliar with the Book of Acts, this is the passage that TNoL expected me to have no "explanation" for... Somehow that was supposed to prove that the Bible cannot be understood except by a pope, or something.

Funny how I can reject both of those, and not be in a situation where everyone is "pastor of his own church".

That sounds like an all-or-nothing fallacy. Plus a bit of strawmanning. To go further on the subject I'd be trying to get you to understand some logical distinctions that your ideology requires you to not understand. Sure, no problem. What is it about that passage that you need explained...

Are you serious? When one side is saying "Look, we can show from the plain text of the Bible that..." and the other side is flatly refusing to debate on those terms, since they know full well that their traditions contain stuff that can't be defended from Scripture... "Oh but the Protestants do...

Well, we don't have the original copies of the New Testament, but yes, we do look at the Greek text. That's what all modern Bible translations work from - the original Greek and Hebrew. We aren't playing a game of broken telephones with translations of translations, as some people seem to...

Is this a troll thread? Because all this talk of "Commoners" or "peasants"? Seriously, this isn't the Middle Ages anymore. All of us taking part in this discussion are Clerics, in the literal, technical sense. Some of you Papists... I think that if Mr Morden from Babylon 5 showed up at your...