@MaryBowdenMD Looks an embalmer isolating the jugular vein in a cadaver. That’s the standard incision and exposure to place embalming fluid. The white strings around the vessel are embalmer’s twine (fibers can clearly be seen fraying off the twine) not silastic vessel loops used in surgery.
@PaulNedelisky@michaelbd If it’s so obvious, you should have zero problem naming the correct interpretation. Tell us which interpretation is the obvious one. I can tell you which one I know is obvious—the interpretation of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
@PaulNedelisky@michaelbd Straightforward, but at complete odds with reality? That there are an enormous multitude of Protestant interpretations is fact. Your insistence that the correct one is obvious is blatantly false because 100,000s of your coreligionists interpret it widely differently.
@PaulNedelisky@michaelbd I’d argue the authority is the author. Interesting, isn’t it that Tolkien recognized the popularity of his work and knew there would be differing camps regarding his legacy, and took great pains to appoint his children, especially Christopher, as the keepers of his true legacy.
@PaulNedelisky@michaelbd To engage your LOTR analogy a bit. Most of LOTR is a straight forward prose narrative, but it clearly has allegorical and figurative meaning. Who best interprets those allegorical/figurative elements? There are more different interpretations of LOTR. Which is correct?
@PaulNedelisky@michaelbd I read the thread. It’s a circular argument. The criteria for a better or worse interpretation is the very thing about which 100000 Protestant sects disagree. You don’t offer any criteria other than the individual as the arbiter of Scritpure’s meaning, and then say it’s obvious.
@MeatFriday@MaryAnnAhernNBC One of the follow on pieces will try to make it look like Cupich is the real power broker in the Catholic Church in America. He’s butt hurt that he’s not in with Leo like he was with Francis.
I analyzed 84,000 U.S census tracts to measure how many Americans can actually reach a hospital that can open a blocked artery during a heart attack within the guideline window: 98% can.
And the comparison to Canada — the country we're told to emulate — is devastating.
@PaulNedelisky@michaelbd Again who says which interpretations are better or worse? This is the same, old, refuted, ahistorical, unscriptural argument. The Protestant answer, all 100000 different ones, is “MY interpretation is the best.”