The Logic Off Topic list

> >not theologians, biblical scholars, or Koran scholars. Like amateur
> >musicians, they are entitled to their opinions, and I personally don't
mind
> >them expressing them.
>
> Why does it take a religious scholar to have a spiritual relationship
> with "God" by whatever name? Even common people can love a song and get
> an emotional charge from it - without an explanation from a musician.

I don't think that was the point, the issue is that for people who want to
explain the relationship of the Old and New Testament to modern Christianity
and be credible they should have a background in one of the aforementioned
fields.  He brought this up because there was some supposition about how the
NT superseded the Old.  Now on a personal level that's totally fine.  But if
one's making a generalization and relating that to how warfare should be
viewed by Christians (at least post-NT ones), then it helps to have some
background.  But of course he also stated that everyone is certainly
entitled to their opinion and even without credentials it doesn't mean
they're specifically wrong.