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To: boatbums; Cronos
What I had been told was truth turned out to be wrong and I knew that by reading God's word for myself just as he intended us to do.

You know I came to be an agnostic by doing the same thing you did, but perhaps I did a better job (sorry, my "pride" is showing), because I wans't looking for something out of a need to find it, but out of a quest to get to the bottom of things I didn't understand. Funny how motivation leads people to different destinations.

For one, first I discovered that disciplines such as what is "proper" fasting were invented by bishops, and not God, and then I discovered that the Bible is not the pristine edition made in heaven; then I discovered that Christians can't figure out which books constitute the Bible, and that even those who can agree (more or less) on what is the Bible can't agree what the Bible says, and are ready to kill each other (literally) over it, etc.

3,399 posted on 06/16/2011 9:08:29 AM PDT by kosta50
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To: kosta50; boatbums
"Funny how motivation leads people to different destinations. ...I discovered that the Bible is not the pristine edition made in heaven; then I discovered that Christians can't figure out which books constitute the Bible, and that even those who can agree (more or less) on what is the Bible can't agree what the Bible says"

Likely story totally based on your "motivations", as you said.

However, it doesn't leave you off the hook.

The basic claims of Christianity are still there, canon or no canon.

3,402 posted on 06/16/2011 9:28:01 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (In the latter times the man [or woman] of virtue appears vile. --Tao Te Ching)
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To: kosta50
For one, first I discovered that disciplines such as what is "proper" fasting were invented by bishops, and not God, and then I discovered that the Bible is not the pristine edition made in heaven; then I discovered that Christians can't figure out which books constitute the Bible, and that even those who can agree (more or less) on what is the Bible can't agree what the Bible says, and are ready to kill each other (literally) over it, etc.

So far, all you have complained about are what PEOPLE have done. No mention of what God has done and what people were unable to mess up. What will you do with Jesus? Who do you say he is? A lot more will fall into place once you resolve these two questions.

3,455 posted on 06/16/2011 6:19:01 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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