basicallyblues wrote:

>
> >Was the transfiguration a
> >hallucination, or was that really Moses and Elijah there on the
Mount
> >with Jesus?
>
> It was a vision- it was not truly Moses and Elijah (Matt. 17:9)
>

If you would simply take the time to look at a Lexicon at the very
least, or if you feel up to it, a word study reference such as TDNT,
you'd see that the word means simply, "to see.", "to look" "eye
witness" etc.

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lsenders@hotmail.com writes:
>Stephen M. Adams wrote:
>> lsenders@hotmail.com writes:
>>
>> You fail to exhibit even the most basic understanding of Orthodox
>> theology. You also misrepresent the teachings of the Scriptures.
>> Finally, you make "sola" statements and then turn right around
>> and either contradict them or explain them away.
>>
>
>I wrote and sent of a lengthy reply to this post. I guess it must have
>got lost. I was hoping you had merely chosen not to post it until you
>could post a reply. Oh well.

What you describe is not my practice. If I recieve a post that is on
topic, I post it. If it's not, I attempt to return it via email. This
often fails for a host of reasons. I checked my logs and can not find
any record of such a post from you.

>In brief I will add only this. In all my years on these two NG, I have
>repeatedly asked for a detail listing of RC "traditions." Over the
>last year or so, I have asked the same of the OC defenders. You refuse
>sola scriptura yet you also refuse to provide any website, book title,
>etc. which provides a true disclosure of your "traditions" which you
>say are equal in authority to the Scriptures. Thus I have rightly
>called your traditionalism relative. There is no verification and yet
>you would have us blindly believe there is something more than
>Scripture to rule over the Church.

One more time - my rejection of "sola Scriptura" is based on the Scriptures.
They refute it. The Scriptures support *our* position, not yours.

As for a definative list, I'll provide one as soon as you can provide
a definitive list of Scriptures, using ONLY the Scriptures themselves.

>Also, in this reply of yours, you repeatedly made statements that led
>me to believe that you believe in total depravity. You stated that man
>cannot of himself save himself. This indicates two things. 1) Man is
>ruined. 2) he doesn't really have free will. He is a slave.

No, it does not. It indicates that without *grace* man can not do
these things, but God gives grace to all men to *enable* them to do
them. Yo