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  1. Vouthon

    Pope Francis allows priests to bless same-sex couples (not marriage)

    For anyone interested, see footnote 345 in paragraph 302 of Amoris Laetitia by Pope Francis from 2016, which refers to a 2000 statement by the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts called Declaration Concerning the Admission to Holy Communion of Faithful Who are Divorced and Remarried. The...
  2. Vouthon

    Pope Francis allows priests to bless same-sex couples (not marriage)

    Amen, I don't find it humorous in the least.
  3. Vouthon

    Pope Francis allows priests to bless same-sex couples (not marriage)

    I also think it's good that the document so clearly distinguishes such pastoral blessings of civilly married/partnered/unmarried gay or civilly married/unmarried hetero couples from sacramental liturgical marriage. In my church, as per Ephesians, there are exegetically insurmountable parameters...
  4. Vouthon

    Pope Francis allows priests to bless same-sex couples (not marriage)

    In Catholic dogma, you have something called grave matter. But for sin itself, you need three elements. Grave matter is the "tinder" of sin, so to speak, but not sin itself. "three conditions must exist at the same time. It must be of a grave matter; It must be committed with full knowledge...
  5. Vouthon

    UK PM Rishi Sunak: "A man is a man, and a woman is a woman, that's just common sense"

    I think Rishi Sunak is seriously and crudely simplifying a complex and nuanced issue for political capital, as many politicians are unfortunately inclined to do to appeal to voter bases (one of the shortfallings of lobbying and funding in electoral democracies). Biological sex or genotype...
  6. Vouthon

    What Kept You Going?

    The answer is the same from my side: @Rival Along with prayer, meditation and reading.
  7. Vouthon

    Signs of Holy Spirit guidance in Christians?

    There are no Pauline scholars of note, whom I am aware of, that would endorse your contention that everything Paul tells us about Jesus came out of his own head from revelations. We now know with relative certitude, based upon ample textual studies that in Corinthians, Galatians and Philippians...
  8. Vouthon

    Signs of Holy Spirit guidance in Christians?

    Yes but temporal lobe epilepsy is often associated with psychiatric comorbidity and emotional dysregulation (i.e. anxiety, depression, and interictal dysphoria). Granted, TLE sufferers can also have a tendency toward intense religiosity, strong emotions, detailed thoughts, and a compulsion to...
  9. Vouthon

    Signs of Holy Spirit guidance in Christians?

    The author of the authentic Pauline epistles comes across as a very sane and articulate individual. He uses pesharim in his arguments, along with other techniques such as midrashes that would become staples in the later Talmudic literature. The trend in modern scholarship, especially from...
  10. Vouthon

    The Love Life of Jesus

    Granted but you haven't addressed the linguistic and textual evidence that I presented at all.
  11. Vouthon

    The Love Life of Jesus

    The question of whether or not he had a sex life is distinct from that of whether or not he fathered children from said union(s). Why do you say so though?
  12. Vouthon

    The Love Life of Jesus

    And now back to Proverbs 5:15-20 which uses the exact language of the discussion between Jesus and Photini (as if the author could have belaboured the point any more that there is a clear sexual subtext to all of this!) Read...
  13. Vouthon

    The Love Life of Jesus

    Yes, he leads her to the awareness of his 'omniscience' but that's the result of her statement "I do not have a husband". There is an entire back-and-forth dialogue before this which prepares the reader for Jesus to ask about her relationship status. She understands him to be 'testing the...
  14. Vouthon

    The Love Life of Jesus

    That's a non-answer. You were asked why you think the Bible has Jesus ask that question in the context of the passage/conversation at the well in John chapter 4?
  15. Vouthon

    The Love Life of Jesus

  16. Vouthon

    The Love Life of Jesus

    The request makes absolutely no sense in the context and structure of the conversation, looking like an abrupt change of topic, unless one understands the subtext that preceded it. And the references are pretty overt - the scene is set up exactly to 'type' according to the template provided in...
  17. Vouthon

    The Love Life of Jesus

    @sun rise @metis @Left Coast Also keen to know your thoughts on this (if you have any, no worries if not!)
  18. Vouthon

    "We're watching the largest and most dangerous 'cult' in American history"

    I think that 'celebrity worship syndrome', which was what the Trump phenomenon started out as amongst his GOP fanbase (i.e. this 'no-nonsense' talking maverick from the reality TV and business world who speaks like a drunkard in a pub even though he's teetotal and doesn't take any crap from the...
  19. Vouthon

    Is it Reasonable to believe God is Transgender?

    If the OP means that God "transcends" human biological categories of gender, then yes I'd agree. But if they mean "trans" as in like a human transperson that was born with a neurotype that is at variance with their chromosomal and phenotypic sex at birth, and this person correspondingly...
  20. Vouthon

    The Love Life of Jesus

    @Rival @RestlessSoul @Estro Felino @Brickjectivity Also of note is that the narrative makes quite clear how the scene appeared to the disciples, as well, when they returned: 27 Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you...
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