A Methodist in Your Midst

[Angrboda]

Here's the thing. At the end of the day, a theology degree is a claim to know things that only the dead are in a position to know with certainty and confidence. Theology isn't knowledge. It's crass speculation. A preacher with a degree in theology has no way to tell if Jesus died for our sins, or Athena sprang from the head of Zeus or Ragnarok will come because Loki and Balder couldn't get along. At the levels of evidence, anything is possible, and the truth could easily be stranger than anyone's guess. (Hastur! Hastur! He's our man. If he can't do it, Nodens can!). So a person peddling degrees in faith is peddling the pretense to knowledge they have no way of knowing.

@FNM: I didn't follow the convo, but you might want to look at the Five Solas of Protestantism if you aren't already familiar.