...the peculiar Evangelical approach to the Bible which sees it entirely apart from its place within the faith community.There you go again!
I am sorry, but it appears to me that you are just being contentious. I have said nothing here except that you do not believe that the Bible is subject to Church interpretation. How is that wrong? And why do you keep snatching portions of sentences and trying to infer bizarre and confrontational ideas out of them? You really should just read the entire post as a whole, without carving them up into little bits which are no longer connected to one another. That is not how I am presenting them. That you can even manage to be defensive about posts which are nothing more than observations of how different our two perspectives are is actually a bit alarming. You seem to be getting a bit punch drunk around here, and are seeing attacks in everything. Not everybody is trying to cast aspersions at you. Some of us are just having a conversation.
I wonder why I'm like this?