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To: kosta50
That's silly, DM. Are you bigger than your heart, your lungs or your stomach? It's all part of one organism. There was a Church before there was a New Testament.

I notice that you say New Testament rather than saying Word of God. Why is that?

10,477 posted on 02/15/2007 7:23:58 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Acts 17:11 also known as sola scriptura.)
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To: DungeonMaster
I notice that you say New Testament rather than saying Word of God. Why is that?

Because there are many, many versions of the bible, with redactions, deletions and additions; because they don't agree in length, context or content. Because we have no original of any one of the books of the Bible whether the OT or the NT; all we have are copies or copies, segments of copies, variations of copies, in short: books we put together as the OT and the NT comprising the Christian Bible.

If the Bible were really the word of God, we would have to fall down and worship it because every time you opened it, God would be speaking to you. I hope you'd take a bath, put on pistine fautless new clothes on, and spend hours in prayer and preparation before you even dared to touch it, let alone look at it. I would imagine you would have to read it on your knees and use a pointing stick (as the Jews do) rather than touching it with bare hands.

Oh, don't get me wrong: there is God's message in the Bible. He gave us the truth and we made up the rest of it.

10,483 posted on 02/15/2007 7:58:47 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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