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Cronos said: By the way, it’s more than a book — it’s the outcome of the canon councils of The Church that under the guidance of the Holy Spirit closed the canon and left out correctly the “Gospel of Thomas” and for some reason didn’t add in the “Didache” or the “Shepherd of Hermas’

There are those of us who believe that the Holy Bible is Jehovah Gods gift to man. You see it as the product of a particular institutional church, which is of course your right to believe. But if you are correct, at best the RCC doesn't play by it's own rule book. Not that I care, you are after all an adult I presume, but 3/4 of the Bible was already in the wraps before that institutional church of yours graced the planet.

I have said it before and will repeat again, we can never go back to the "unity" that you all think existed before the reformation. Why? because before the reformation very few had the scriptures for themselves. Now, there are so many copies of the Bible in circulation and on computers and inscribed in literature, architecture and folk lore that there will always be those who if they desire will find the Bible and compare it to the teaching of the Bishops. They will conclude, as I have that there is a problem nestled along the Tiber.

Groups that have "pastors" like Jesse Duplantis are loony cults. For those that don't know, Jesse Duplantis who has a story beyond all others. He has gone to heaven and has quite a tale to tell. Unlike the apostle Paul who kept quiet for 14 years Jesse stays quiet for 9 years after the Lord tells him to tell everyone, and he agreed, he then disobeyed. Do we need Duplantis to tell us Jesus is coming back? But he says this is the very reason he was brought to heaven, to let us know he’s really coming.

In his hotel room on August 1988 he “felt a suction as if I was being pulled up out of the room” which he describes as” zooming along at a phenomenal rate of speed, being carried in something like a cable car. It was a chariot without a horse” He notices a “ blond-headed angel” and asks, “Where are we going?” He smiled and said, “You have an appointment with the Lord God Jehovah”

Duplantis decribes Jesus as a “ shaft of light. He was so glorious! He turned toward me, and I fell at His feet. I said, reverently, “Oh, God!” He said, “I'm here.” As I was kneeling down, I noticed Jesus' feet looked like burnished brass. I thought there would be scars in His hands and feet. But it wasn't like He had been cut and scarred. I could see the holes in His feet. They were so big - about the size of a nickel (Heaven Close encounters of the God kind p.88).

After Dupantis says to Jesus, “I'll do anything for You.” He smiled at me and said, “I chose you. No one else wanted you, and I need you, Jesse.”

Before Jesse is sent back home to earth Jesus explains how He dreads the day when He has to send some of the creation He loves to hell. “I wanted to reach out and comfort Him, so I put my hand on the Lord. . .I could tell that Jesus was hurting” (p.127).

Why would one believe this rot?