In the midst of holding down the old church job and keeping my woman happy and learning Greek, I have little time to blog. Apologies. Someone step up to the plate and fill in the gap. So in the absence of content (I have ideas up the ying yang but no time!), here are some links:
Or you could just go and read Zoomatics…
Your Correspondent, Applying what he likes to call the “Compliment Sandwich”
Zoomy
Just saw your college id card on another post and had to say that theres a fair amount of milhouse in you.. Possibly you are related to the O Van Houtens of Kildare?
I am the definitive Poindexter.
ZT what is your fav Milhouse moment. i bet you have it to hand?
maybe the “abandoned warehouse security guard job” episode? “i was watching, i saw the whole thing… first it started to fall.. then it fell”
My dad is a big wheel down at the box factory
Zoom.
Thought youd be the man to interpret this. I found it in the Christian Community Bibles’ ( a Roman Catholic translation) intro to Romans
” we have said however that this letter had its roots in Paul’s experience as a Jew, a Pharisee and an apostle called directly by Christ. It is from that point that Paul spoke of sin and justification, of call, of salvation through faith. For their part Luther and his contemporaries read this letter against the background of their own problems -- or rather- their anguish.
They magnified the perspective of sin and eternal condemnation, victims of a philosophy (nominalism) in which nothing good or bad in itself but only if God declares it so. Because of that everything Paul said about predestination of the Jewish people was interpreted by them as a personal predestination to heaven or hell”
Theres more but im interested to know what you think they are trying to say here… I don’t know what nominalism is.