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OK, you're going to have to show me some historical evidence for this. Whether you think the groom's father announced the date a day before, a week before, or a month before the wedding date doesn't matter to me -- I'm just looking for ANYTHING which supports your statement that the groom's...

I wouldn't fret over 2 Tim 3:16-17. Paul wasn't referring to his own writings when he used "scripture" here. He was referring to the OT.

Since "trinity" doesn't appear in the Bible in Hebrew, Greek or any other language, you'll need to explain what you mean by "trinity translations." My understanding is that trinity "translations" don't exist -- and therefore cannot be altered or error-filled.

Well, @bluedragon, both I and @BlessedPeace have steered you toward this article. Have you come around yet?

Good article! I particularly like this part of it: "The current statute authorizing Supreme Court review of state court decisions allows the Court to review the judgments of “the highest court of a State in which a decision could be had.” This is often the state’s court of last resort, but...

I don't have a clue what you are trying to establish with this "in the woods" encounter. U.S. Supreme Court CANNOT REVIEW a state court conviction while there are still appeals available within the state court system. Period. Do you need to hear it from Fox News in order to believe it...

I would love to see some examples.

As long as further appellate review is available within the state court system SCOTUS can't take up the case. Only when state appeals are no longer available can SCOTUS do so. An example is “Powell v. Texas, 392 U.S. 514, 517 (1968), where the Court said "There being no further right to appeal...

No. I am trying to understand him.

I suspect that rejection of female clergy may be incorrectly based on Paul's teachings on husband-wife relations. First up is 1 Cor. 14:34-35: “the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is...

It's hard for me to be objective on this. My wife is an Episcopal priest.

That raises an interesting question: whether Paul's ban on female clergy was a nod to the mores of the times, or whether it still holds 2,000 years later.

I guess that's the safer "default rule" -- unless Paul says his message is not from the Lord, we should presume that it is. But when he does say his message is from the Lord (like as in 1 Cor. 7:10 and 1 Thess. 4:15), I'd have to ask myself "why is he bothering to mention this?"

How can we tell whether, for example, 1 Cor. 14:34-35 ("the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.”) is Paul speaking his own thoughts, or Paul...

Thanks for the advice, but I AM a lawyer. A 1979 graduate of Cornell Law School. Message me if you want proof. Nothing I said was lifted from Wikipedia. Compare both, and you'll see that.

OK, I have listened to Levin. He is mistaken on many fronts. Lets start with his spiel on the All Writs Act, which authorizes federal courts to intervene in lower court proceedings when necessary to aid or preserve the writ-issuing court's jurisdiction or effectuate its judgments. It cannot...

The 16th Amendment precludes such an effort by the Executive Branch without Congressional legislation..

Trump is going to change the tax code first day office? He has no such power. Only Congress can change the tax code.

Not sure what you mean here. Obviously 2 Baruch doesn't say its a just decree. I can't see how it could be just. Can you?

Original sin is easier to explain than it is to see the justice in. I read 2 Baruch 23:4 (“when Adam sinned and death was decreed against those who should be born”) -- and I think, why is that a just decree?