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<blockquote data-quote="Aboulia" data-source="post: 1319820" data-attributes="member: 16697">What work specifically that is relevant to this discussion? I checked out his website, it seems like a bunch of nonsense about UFOs, the man has a podcast called &quot;The Naked Bible&quot; which is a ridiculous, because that is an assertion that the bible can be taken in abstraction from it's context. What exactly does this man teach that's edifying? I read a few articles and came across this.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://drmsh.com/thoughts-signs-wonders-part-2-whats-apostle/[/URL]The author misplaces authority by putting it in a person, and conflates authority and power. Authority is the right to rule, those who are authorities on subjects have knowledge on that topic. Power is just vulgar domination. Paul could correct people because he was accurate with regard to teachings, and his teachings were only true because they corresponded to reality.Ego driven domination has no place in the Christian worldview. The author comes to correct conclusions that churches are to be de-centralized in power, but he's mistaken that if one is a &quot;apostle&quot;, he must wield power. This is what happens when you take the bible in abstract. If he's this wrong on basic church structure, does he have anything of value to say?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aboulia, post: 1319820, member: 16697"] What work specifically that is relevant to this discussion? I checked out his website, it seems like a bunch of nonsense about UFOs, the man has a podcast called "The Naked Bible" which is a ridiculous, because that is an assertion that the bible can be taken in abstraction from it's context. What exactly does this man teach that's edifying? I read a few articles and came across this. [URL unfurl="true"]https://drmsh.com/thoughts-signs-wonders-part-2-whats-apostle/[/URL] The author misplaces authority by putting it in a person, and conflates authority and power. Authority is the right to rule, those who are authorities on subjects have knowledge on that topic. Power is just vulgar domination. Paul could correct people because he was accurate with regard to teachings, and his teachings were only true because they corresponded to reality. Ego driven domination has no place in the Christian worldview. The author comes to correct conclusions that churches are to be de-centralized in power, but he's mistaken that if one is a "apostle", he must wield power. This is what happens when you take the bible in abstract. If he's this wrong on basic church structure, does he have anything of value to say? [/QUOTE]

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