Recent content by Man_With_A_Plan

I don't know which is more offensive: the fact that you've quoted passages of the New Testament that are highly controversial and debated as if they're not (golly, if I'd only read those passages I'd be shown the error of my ways...), or the fact that you're being intellectually dishonest by...

I'm going to be a bit sarcastic here, but I don't mean it personally. I don't have access to a parallel universe, so I can't comment on this. Assuming your first statement is true. Again, no access to to a parallel universe. You think abortion is ok, I assume? Have you ever heard of the...

I should say that I'm not a Christian. (I might become one the future, but for now I'm definitely not.) So I have nothing to gain by proving or disproving anything. Well, the near-silence on the life of Pilate outside of the NT shows that most historical records simply disappear over time...

Fundamentally, there are two types of Christianity. There's the sort with apostolic succession and historicity (Catholics, Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, etc.), and then there is Protestanism, which is a mixture of semi-Christian theology, biblio-idolatry and humanist philosophy. Those belonging...

Hey! I thought the debaters weren't allowed to post in the Peanut Gallery until the debate was over lol. Oh, and did you actually read my post before replying to it? It seems like you briefly scanned it and missed everything I said. Anyway, I never used the gospel of Nicodemus as an argument...

I agree completely. I was saying that, in his own time, Jesus was not anybody important in the secular world.

Interesting debate. In my opinion, Jesus most definitely was an historical person. 1.) From a secular perspective, Jesus was not an important person. There had been individuals before (and after) him who even claimed to be the "messiah." As such, it wasn't likely that Jesus would have...

The minutes of Nicaea are not known to exist. Either you're lying, mistaken, or you have something in your possession that historians would love to check out. I honestly think it's a stretch to call the meeting in Acts an ecumenical council. That's a completely anachronistic reading, and my...

The Canons of Nicaea? http://www.fourthcentury.com/nicaea-325-canons/

Yes, we have the canons, of course. But you claimed that we have the minutes, and that was a complete lie on your part. Unless you can show us these minutes, then please don't say I'm wrong. Thank you. I've always claimed that the ancient church had a uniform belief. I actually went to great...

1.) There is no record of any minutes of Nicaea. I checked Wikipedia and Google just to make sure. 2.) Against Heresies was written to counter Gnostics and their new "gospels," if I recall correctly, which was a novelty that no churches were holding to. The Gnostics had a new religion. Irenaeus...

unbaptized*

There are no minutes from Nicea, as far as I know. The closest thing I can find to the "visible" church is St. Ignatius' definition. The fact there are at least a couple of dozen distinct bodies with apostolic succession all claiming to be the true visible church, and the fact that they can all...

I'm not trying to be arrogant with the stuff I say here. In fact, it took me a long time to accept the truth. The "true church" is found wherever the Eucharist is found, regardless of the name on the outsude of the building. The problem with the Council of Nicaea is that Constantine's goal was...

Ignatius was writing shortly after the New Testament was written and to churches of great geographical distance from one another, and yet he acknowledges the bishop/priest/deacon structure. I find it hard to imagine that churches in both Rome and Asia Minor would suddenly and consistently fall...