Dear Joe,<br><br>Thank you! That's the sort of response I was hoping the thread would elicit, which I believe can lead to illumination and/or discussion.<br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]definitions are important and thus my other questions deemed to be posted</font><hr></blockquote><p>I completely agree with the importance of definitions, and never meant to imply they were not important. My family and catechism classes shudder whenever I start talking about a new term, because they know I am about to spend the next 10 minutes defining it. My reasons for not "pre-defining" the terms here were 1) I myself wanted to learn a great deal more about them, and 2) I hoped to do so in the context of a particular application.

In Christ,
Paul S