I'm not claiming the Bible is 3000+ years old. It's a collection of books that were compiled into a canon (The Bible) in the 4th century by the Christian Church. The gospels themselves were written after Jesus's birth, so it's literally impossible for them to be older.
@nothanksnopeyno@CovenantReform2 I know that. We didn't have a Bible in the early church, we had lectionaries which were (and still are) used in the divine liturgy. People didn't have their own scriptures, they relied on the Church for teaching and reading. I don't think you have anything to teach me
@nothanksnopeyno@CovenantReform2 I think you need to reread what I said. I'm specifically asking where the Bible gives us a canon of scripture. Book, chapter, verse. Without that then sola scriptura is an invalid belief.
Also Wess Huff is a retarded plagiarist.
Another follow-up on the Gospel of Thomas paper Wes Huff wrote as a PhD student at the University of Toronto. Huff criticizes scholar Stephen Patterson as if it’s his own analysis. But it isn’t his. It’s copied from a 2014 article by Mark Goodacre, which Huff never cites.
@EvangelicalDW The only crisis the Orthodox have is that we're growing too fast. We have an extreme shortage of priests to convert ratio. A normal conversion rate would be like 4 catechumens at a time. Some places have dozens
@ianballarddrums@DanielLMcAdams@GOP__Ls How do you know you follow Christ? If your only information is from your interpretation of the Bible then you'd only be following yourself and your ideas
@Thedukeistheman@ankle_terrorist@ByJimbob@AndrewLSeidel If it's not inherent then it's not universal to humans. So only specific humans might have value if someone else thinks so. That's ridiculous. Either humans, a universal category, do or don't. And if it's not universal then humans don't have value.
@Thedukeistheman@ankle_terrorist@ByJimbob@AndrewLSeidel What you're missing is that saying "humans have value" is a universal claim about humanity and human nature. If your claim is subjective then it's false because subjective claims would only apply to the particular, not the universal. So your entire basis is flawed
@Thedukeistheman@ankle_terrorist@ByJimbob@AndrewLSeidel Then nothing has value. You just say it does, you haven't provided any explanation for why we have value or how value happens. You're just saying "we do cuz we do". And it's the most philosophically vapid thing I've ever heard