AFSCME Local 3911 Emergency Services

New Castle County Delaware Paramedics and Emergency Communications

Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 1

Construction workers in Delaware and Pennsylvania.

Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 1

Construction workers in Delaware and Pennsylvania.

Delaware Nurses Association

Affiliated with the American Nurses Association.

Delaware State Education Association

State affiliate of the NEA, the DSEA promotes and defends outstanding public education for all students and advances and protects the rights and professional interests of educational employees. Delaware educators will find lots of information, news and links of interest on this site.

Delaware State Education Association

Union representing public education employees. State unit of the National Education Association

Delaware Valley Health Care Coalition

Association of union benefit funds created for the purpose of providing quality products at significant market discounts.

Diamond State Telephone Commercial Union

Represents employees of Verizon Delaware Inc. and Verizon Services Corp.

IBEW Local 313

Delaware local of the electrician's union.

IBEW Local 313

Delaware local of the electrician's union.

Matthew Johnson wrote:

> > This was their
> >failure as well.
>
> It was no _failure_. You simply misunderstood what they were doing.
>
It is you who fails to understand the nature of their apologetical
presuppositions. But then, I realize the difficulty of your position.
When you have your nose pressed so hard against the glass, it is
difficult to see what is written on it. Like the neo-Platonist, your
doctrine of deification sees man as absorbing deity. Thus your
necessary dismissal to subject yourself to the soul authority of
Scripture, The idea of revelation which you correspond to is the idea
of immediate illumination of the individual by deity. Mostly, this
comes vis ectasy with transcends the self-consciousness of the
individual, sinking one further into the divine essence. Again, you
view it as a process of participation of the sinner in the
superatuaral. An idea of finality that is correlative to the idea of
process must be discovered by the will of man. So you are caught
exactly where Augustine found himself caught in his early
confrontations using Platonic reasoning on the one hand, and scripture
on the other. You, like him seek to serve both God as supreme in His
world and the autonomous man as supreme in his world.

Is it any wonder why the Reformation developed its so-called attributes
of Scripture in opposition the Romanist position? Two different
systems of theology require two different views concerning the
authority of Scripture.

In the Protestant system, it is by one act of faith that the believer
embraces the Christ and the Scriptures which tell of that Christ. It
is a matter of interdependence, not independence, based upon the
Creator-creature made in the image of the Creator as is literally, not
allegorically, revealed in Scripture -alone. Only via the Scriptures
does man come to Christ and it to the divinity of Christ. [Jn 1:1-5, 9,
10]

Christ came once and for all [Heb 9:28]. And His work is finished.
The debt has been paid in full. The faithful are justified, once and
for all. Based upon the promises and work of God, salvation is sure
and certain. God's program for history has no chance behind it and
therefore does not rest upon the will of man [Jn 1:13]. It is HE, not
man, who controls whatsoever comes to pass. THEREFORE, the church
stands *under* the Scripture. No supplimental tradition can stand next
to the self-attesting word of God.

Scripture must be interpreted by Scripture. The church must subject
itself in its explanation of the system of truth of Scripture as well
as in its identification of Scripture to the self-attesting Word as
found and illustrated in Scripture. No interpretatio