***That’s right. Many variations, showing individual interpretations and no unity. Hardly the work of the Holy Spirit!***
I am trying to figure out why you even care. You don’t believe the Bible as God’s word, you don’t believe that the Holy Spirit works in our lives to understand the Bible, You doubt assertations that express belief in God unless YOU have proof of it. What exactly DO you believe?
I’ve been wondering that myself, irish.
Apparently we look at the same thing and see two totally dissimilar things. I see Christians eliminating spurious books such as "the Protoevangelium of James" and "the Acts of Paul and Thekla" without any "authoritative council" and the immediate recognition of most of the New Testament. All within a hundred years of the end of the Apostolic Era.
It was done with no printing presses, computers, fax machines, or system of communication other than letter or face to face conversation. I see the Holy Spirit guiding these Christians. If not what book or books did they miss?
Why do you care why I care?
Why do you care what the Catholics and Orthodox believe?
You doubt assertations that express belief in God unless YOU have proof of it
Yeah, I ask for proof. How insolent. Imagine that! How dare I ask for extraoridnary evidence for someone's extraoridnary claims!
But you know, those with proofs don't mind being questioned. It is only those who have no proof that get enraged by those who doubt their subjective stories. The anger and threats that result is a taletale sign that they don't have the cards they claim to have.