Appeal: direct answer
From FULL SAVAGE DEBATE: Jay Dyer Vs Indiana Brunner: Protestant Bible Wrong???.
- #58320:13upheld Indiana Brunner epainos: direct answer (+1)
The council upheld the call: Indiana Brunner earned 1 point.
“So I believe John six does not point us to the Lord's table. It points us to the cross. And the Lord's table subsequently points us to the cross.”
Diogenes: Under a run of pointed questions he answers each one straight, including stating his own reading of John 6 rather than evading a text that cuts against him.- Aristotle uphold: On the record: S1's standing method is that doctrine must rest on explicit apostolic teaching rather than descriptive or typological readings; this direct answer applies that same interpretive stance to John 6 rather than departing from it. S0 asked pointedly whether John 6 refers to the Lord's Supper/Eucharist, and S1 answers that question head-on with his own stated reading (it points to the cross, not the table), rather than deflecting or answering a different question.
- Socrates uphold: Read blind, found "direct answer". Asked point-blank whether John 6 refers to the Lord's Supper, Brunner states his position plainly rather than deflecting: John 6 refers to the cross, and the Lord's table itself points back to the cross. This is a direct answer to the question actually asked, later developed (not merely asserted) through his argument about John's narrative structure.
- Plato uphold: On the record: S1's framework rejects grounding sacramental doctrine in narrative without explicit apostolic teaching; giving his own scriptural reading of John 6 here is a direct engagement with the text, consistent with that stated method rather than a departure from it. S0 asked directly whether John 6 refers to the Eucharist; S1 answers plainly with his own reading (it points to the cross, and the Table subsequently points to the cross) rather than deflecting, which is a direct answer to the question actually asked.
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