[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by GreekChatObserv

I don't really need an education in Paulist theology, but thanks anyway. You could have identified exactly which church this "long-standing" distinction between ritual and ethical law comes from, because the last time I checked, many different churches believed many different things.

I wouldn't have thought that someone who doesn't need an education in Pauline theology would need to have any further identification. It's pretty much right there.

Meanwhile, it runs through many of the writings of the Church fathers and other theologians of the early Church, including Justin in his Dialogue. The concept is found in one form or another in Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Classical Protestantism -- and, I would suggest, pretty much any church that doesn't practice (as a religious matter) circumcision, abstinance from pork or shellfish or observance of a Seventh-day Sabbath rather than Sunday (the Lord's Day). But you knew that, of course.

To borrow a phrase, your dogma ran over my karma.

I always did think that was a stupid phrase.

My original post was intended to point out some of macallen25's often contemptuous views of brotherhood. For example, he picks and chooses who he considers to be his brothers, simply because they initiated in a different chapter. See a theme here?

No.