[Cassidy]

Cliffhanger> Let's give Nigel Tomes some room, after all he was under this kind of myth for many years and he is just trying to work his way through all the Local Church myths.

Cliffhanger,

Nigel Tomes is entitled to his view as we all are. Furthermore, if he his groping his way to clarity and is expressing that in his writings then the reader can factor that in as they read them.

However, I will continue to challenge his arguments, the validity of his assumptions, and the conclusions he draws. After this amount of time he has now become a teacher of sorts and therefore his public teachings should be examined. In another thread he has discarded respected Greek scholars in favor of modern ones..... he embraces a scholar (Barr) who challenges the inerrancy of the Bible for instance... and here in this thread he has used an internet search engine trend to draw conclusions about membership in the local churches.. we can call it the "Google Trend Fallacy" and add it to the lexicon of argumentation fallacies (you heard it here first). He has room to sort matters out privately but once he takes to the airwaves and instructs others then his ideas become a matter for public discourse.

Nigel Tomes' writings need to be examined.... not only to test them for the readers sake but for the sake of Nigel Tomes' own understanding... assuming he ever takes the time to read a counterpoint.