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Author Topic:   Straightforward, hard-to-answer-questions about the Bible/Christianity
jallen04
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Message 204 of 477 (557656)
04-27-2010 1:40 PM


Before I ask my question I want to establish a few things that I understand about Christianity.
1) One is not just Christian because they go to church or even wear the robes of a priest or minister. It is a personal thing that exists between a believer and their god.
2) The bible was gathered together from thousands of texts. A group of monks poured through these and determined what was divinely inspired. They included those in the bible and discarded the rest that weren't. It stands to reason that they would have to be divinely inspired themselves to determine if the original writer was divinely inspired. Otherwise their decisions might be influened by personal beliefs and politics.
3) The RCC from whence the divinely inspired creators of the bible originated from it's beginning was plagued by individuals in it's leadership that were decidedly less than christian.
Now in view of the previous statements:
If even one of those monks faith was compromised in any way, if they were swayed by evil wouldn't that make everything they determined to be divine suspect? How do you know that every determination of divinity was made by an individual who was divinely inspired and not including or maybe more importantly excluding texts that didn't meet his personal religious and / or political views? Doesn't this make the whole bible suspect?
Edited by jallen04, : No reason given.

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jallen04
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Message 212 of 477 (558624)
05-03-2010 9:10 AM
Reply to: Message 206 by Pauline
05-01-2010 3:59 PM


Dr. Sing,
That is far and away the best answer I have ever had to that question despite asking that question to a number of ministers over the years.
I first asked that question when I was 14 and was starting to question my faith. We happened to have a sermon about the meaning of being a Christian and Sunday school on the same day was about the history of the NT.
I still see the system being subject to the fallacies of man, mainly through translation errors, both deliberate and accidental and, IMHO more importantly, the exclusion of documents that didn't agree with the agenda's of the powers at the time.

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