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Actually, while there may have been a time that had a little truth to it, the more we get into a world with Wikipedia and other growing online resources it absolutely is 100% false. You can prove it easily. Printed works always have some kind of updated errata that is published later, or available. Bibleworks resources, which actually most of them are full open source licensed digital versions of the Bible, or Greek / Hebrew text, are updated much more frequently due to it being much easier to do so. How many times a year does Bibleworks connect up to their servers and download an updated version complete with corrected material? I'd say I've seen it at least 3-4 times a year. Printed books? Nowhere near that frequency. No, researching the Bible with a small limited printed library of works is like doing a book report only using materials you can find in your local small town hicksville library, as opposed to using more global resources. Just because the Internet as new technology has had a gap between free usage and regulation and "post anything" vs. peer reviewed sources is ABSOLUTELY NOT a reason to bury your head in the sand and not use digital media. The Way's approach there is very similar to their surrounding neighbors at the Indiana campus - the Amish.

Hey Tom, Us Unitarians (biblical that is) have a rough row to hoe. On the one hand, the things related to the "secret of God" (1 Corinthians 2:1 "musterion" instead of marturion ("testimony")) were "hid in God", "hid from ages and generations", "kept secret since the ages began" and "not made known unto the sons of man". On the other, Christendom has in its two bit brain that Jesus knew everything. He did not. He also was a man; nay "the son of man" (that Hebraic expression epitomizing humanness). Progressive revelation shows us that what came on the day of Pentecost was not what was expected in prophecy, but prophecy will be fulfilled. Jesus could only speak of what he knew and he knew of the "last days", the "great tribulation", the "day of the Lord", etc, but he did not know what was coming as the intercalation (large theological BS meaning "commercial interruption" for TV lovers) of events. A secret made known unto the Christian prophets, Paul being tapped to write it all down. Peter referring to Paul's writings as kinda "hard to understand". Jews had a hard time with Pauline theology. Anyway, not knowing something is not a sin (think Jesus here) and prophecy will come to pass (think Joel's prophecy about the spirit that Peter referred to on Pentecost...and he wasn't the Pope yet so he couldn't have been speaking Ex Cathedra...a little humor for my Roman Catholic compatriots). Lots of stuff to sort out RE

Hmm, so when Jesus told Philip "he [the father] shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you," Philip really wasn't going to see that comforter? Neither were we "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word." Does context nullify the promise to Philip and those of us who believe? Tom

I'm not a language scholar either but I've seen the word "moved" in - "And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters" - translated as "brooded" - like a mother hen brooding over her eggs. If in fact that is a correct translation then the first reference to God as spirit is feminine.

So where did the little green plus "reputation" button go in my own posts? Does this mean someone can't give me a little green thingie anymore if they like my post? I can see it in other people's posts, but not mine :(

That was setup at the Rock of Ages every year that I can remember..I never met him that i know of...but I can remember the teepee. I dont know exactly when or if TWI came out against Teepee's (How can you be against a type of dwelling??) but I'd guess it was sometime in the period when they morphed from a bunch of carefree hippies into a band of corporate clones in 3 piece suits carrying briefcases. That was a really odd transformation to watch. It took 5 or 10 years or so as i remember it...I dont know if they came out with a teepee 'doctrine', or when it actually stopped but Id guess that it followed that somehow. The suits always loved making up new rules off the tops of their heads and out of thin air--usually about nothing

True I have to say I never really understood the appeal of fame very well People that would otherwise claim to personally know Jesus Christ would get all giddy if they met some third tier rocker or pro athlete as if they had seen a burning bush or something.