Posted on 01/04/2009 8:07:31 PM PST by Stourme
Yes.
No. I believe God speaks to me every day in many different ways.
The Bible and the Universe itself. Both witness to their author.
Yes.
The Bible is a collection of books written and assembled by man.
There is a reason that the Protestants tossed those books from the Catholic Bible, reasons that hold up. I choose not to take cults such as Mormon, Jehovah Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventists seriously.
Islam is a man made religion that was a response to Emmanuel.
The Bible is the inspired word of God and is without error in the way to salvation.
AMEN!!!
I’m not calling people cults. I’m saying clearly that these three are cults. Because they are.
Yes.
And since it teaches divine healing, salvation through the precious Blood of Jesus, and the Baptism of the Holy Ghost with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues, I also believe in those things.
BTTT
Really?
What peculiar Mormon doctrines are taught in the Book of Mormon that are not taught in the Bible?
And where is the proof of the inspiration of the Book of Mormon or the accuracy of the translation?
What about Holy Tradition == the word of God that was handed down orally? But not written down.
Exactly.
Religion has always been a key to power... especially if the huddled, unwashed masses are illiterates, mostly. There is no way anyone can guarantee the “divine authenticity” of such a body of literature, which has, for most of its history, been under the control of a select few.
If Mormons can believe a man in the 19-th century was a prophet, and the Mormons number in the millions, population-wise, then the same thing could have worked 2000 years ago, and beyond. They were a less-educated population too, to boot.
We don’t have talking snakes and bushes today. Because they were made-up stories.
There is a BIG differance between "IS THE BIBLE GODS WORD?" and "Do you believe the Bible is the only word of God?"
Would you rather learn you were wrong about your beliefs now or later?
****Holding the “Douay” Roman Catholic Version of the Bible aloft in my hand, I ask, “Do YOU accept THIS Bible as the Word of God?” ****
From the preface to the KJV...From the Translators to the Reader.
1 Now to the latter we answer, that we do not deny, nay, we affirm and avow, that the very meanest translation of the Bible in English, set forth by men of our profession, (for we have seen none of theirs of the whole Bible as yet) containeth the Word of God, nay, is the Word of God.
2 As the King’s Speech which he uttered in Parliament, being translated into French, Dutch, Italian, and Latin, is still the King’s Speech, though it be not interpreted by every translator with the like grace, nor peradventure so fitly for phrase, nor so expressly for sense, everywhere.
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11 The translation of the Seventy dissenteth from the original in many places, neither doth it come near it for perspicuity, gravity, majesty; yet which of the Apostles did condemn it?
12 Condemn it? Nay, they used it, (as it is apparent, and as Saint Hierome and the most learned men to confess) which they would not have done, nor by their example of using it, so grace and commend it to the Church, if it had been unworthy the appellation and name of the Word of God.
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1 But it is high time to leave them, and to shew in brief what we proposed to ourselves, and what course we held, in this our perusal and survey of the Bible.
2 Truly, good Christian reader, we never thought from the beginning that we should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one, .... but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones, one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against; that hath been our endeavour, that our mark.
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