What would happen if leading proponents of the classic positions could actually come together in a spirit of love, unity, humility, and selflessness, with everyone vowing to study the texts and the issues afresh with commitments to no prior agendas and with no polemic that those who came out in a different place from them are in any sense academically or spiritually deficient? I have no doubt that there would be differing conclusions, but I also strongly suspect that the extremes in each camp would be eliminated. I could hope that people would conclude that there was room in the church of
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