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Me too. After it’s revealed in the song that the man is a boxer - mankind is a boxer - I can viscerally feel the punches landing, time after time after time… Mankind delivers blows and receives blows. Where should a follower of Christ fall on that spectrum? At various stages in our Christian...

I’m glad to hear it. I wish we lived closer together. I have, or at least had, relatives living in your part of God’s good earth. I haven’t been down your way since 1977. I lost my best friend (at one time) due to our different beliefs. He, a trinitarian, me - unbeknownst to him - a Jewish...

“Still, a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest” (Paul Simon, “The Boxer”)

@theefaith do you have any non-Catholic family or friends?

Everything on your list jumps out / is of great interest to me.

Why, in his human nature, was his God only one person? In his human nature, our human nature, he isn’t a trinitarian. He’s by definition in his / our human nature a unitarian. There is no Jesus the trinitarian; there is Jesus the unitarian. His faith is Jewish unitary monotheism, not...

I don’t agree with everything he said but I find that I’m able to agree with much of what he said. The man was extraordinarily witty. My Protestant upbringing prejudiced me against reading Chesterton and other Catholic writers. What a tragedy, but that’s the distant past. Read widely. Read...

I’m in favor of as much agreement as possible. The more the better. The more we talk and reason together the more we’ll find that we have in common. But it only goes so far. You have lines that you’re not able to cross, at least presently, and I have lines that I’m not able to cross (or even...

Paul wrote about a coming apostasy in the church, which was already at work even mid 1st century. You made an excellent point about Christ being an apostle. He is an apostle; his God - the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of Moses, the God of the prophets, the God of the Jews, the God...

Do, or have, you read Chesterton? “We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.”...

We are able to agree on much but 80% sounds like an overestimate to me. I like your optimism though. Yes. The more we speak together the more there will be. I’ve enjoyed our conversations and have shared some of what we’ve discussed with family and friends.

The correct answer is what the 1st century church taught. What comes after that, if it doesn’t align, is apostasy.

Our point of agreement is that he heard about baptism from Philip. When we take the time to really talk with and listen to people we’re eventually able to find points of agreement.

Yes. Why? “Jesus is God.” Now the question is, how is Jesus God? Trinitarianism has an answer. At one time I believed this is the correct answer. Binitarianism has an answer. At one time I believed this is the correct answer. Unitarianism has an answer. At one time I believed this is the...

Possibly from something he had seen or heard while he was in Jerusalem, but I think more likely he heard about it from Philip (Acts 8:34). How do you think he knew about it?

Which brings us full circle to the Lord Jesus Christ and the spirit of truth.

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of truth. Your church is littered with bad leaders. How do you know this is true? Would you blindly follow / obey those bad leaders? In this conversation, my mind continues to return to your comments on the Vatican.