thanks for responding homestarmy your opinion is reasonable for most circumstances but not here much or most of the comments and theology of matt slick are derived from his website the christian apologetics and research ministry because it is slick's site there is little doubt of the reliability of comments posted there under his name the same applies to john ratcliff being it is ratcliff's site and the link in question has been there for two years without deletion by the webmaster in fact the thread originates in a section where only ratcliff and administrators have access it is more than a reasonable assurance that the comments are directly from him