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To: metmom; Cronos; MamaB
This means that we worship Jesus Christ as the living Word, we do not believe that the Bible was existent before time or that it is divine of itself

It's good to know you got something right.

Muslims revere the Quran to the point that if a copy touches the floor, even accidentally, it must be solemnly buried. Now, I wouldn't use a copy of my Bible disrespectfully - like for toilet paper, but I respect it because it contains Divine revelation meant for all mankind to know the truth. No doubt there WOULD be Bible worshipers had we found the original autographs, but I think God knew that and ensured these letters didn't last. What we CAN be assured of is that there are thousands of manuscript copies and what the first believers had been given we also have available to us today - the whole counsel of God.

786 posted on 07/29/2014 3:05:29 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums; MamaB
No doubt there WOULD be Bible worshipers had we found the original autographs,

I disagree with that -- Christians have always believed that what the various Holy books in the Bible contain are divinely inspired, but not that God dictated it and the authors wrote it word for word

This is, as the Bible consists of various books written over millenia, but the Koran dates (as per islamic belief) to a fixed period of time. And, the believe that it was copied word for word exactly as Al-illah dictated it. This means that to them it is holy of itself. Also they hold that it was created before time, because oftheir flawed understanding of John 1

But we know that the Word of God is Jesus Christ and HE existed before time itself. The bible as in the collection of books did not exist before time itself

853 posted on 07/30/2014 8:00:29 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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