Maybe according to Bishop Editor-Surveyor, but he's outside the Church that chose those written gospels, so his opinion really doesn't matter.
It's just ridiculous to think all Christ's teachings are in the Gospels. If that were the case, why recruit 12 guys to help spread the instructions? Why not just hire a few scribes and tell 'em to start churning out the pamphlets for the good people to read? Why waste all that time explaining things to the Apostles? He should have just told the Apostles to just keep writing. All they need to know will be in the pamphlets. But that's not what he did, did he? No. Christ did not hire a scribe while he sat home dictating. The entire nature of his ministry is completely counter the notion there's a complete set of instructions that any idiot can decipher.
Christ's ministry was a hands on ministry in which nuance is essential. The written word fails miserably when it comes to describing the nuances of LOVE, and that's exactly what God and Christ is. To put that much faith in a BOOK is, to me, just plain stupid.
The fact that REAL Christianity is so much more than following the instructions in a magic perfect book is what makes Christianity such a beautiful religion. It's like comparing a book about how a mother should love a child to the actual experience of a mother's actual unconditional love. There's no way a book can capture that beauty, no matter how well it may be written. You can't teach what is beyond words by simply using words.
There you go trying to be logical, again, with the crowd that believes in talking snakes and donkeys...
> “Maybe according to Bishop Editor-Surveyor, but he’s outside the Church that chose those written gospels, so his opinion really doesn’t matter.
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Wrong again! (no surprise)
I am very much a part of the body of Christ. It is the catholics that by choice are not a part. They cherish the idolatry of Ishtar/Mary worship, Icon worship, Pagan seances in place of Passover Communion, and praying to mortal men rather than the Father, to whom Christ gave us access in his name.
> “It’s just ridiculous to think all Christ’s teachings are in the Gospels. If that were the case, why recruit 12 guys to help spread the instructions?”
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Its really ridiculous to think otherwise. Perhaps you hadn’t noticed that one apostle, Paul, was responsible for 90% of that evangelism, and all of the specific written instructions for the daily management of the church. All that the church needs is in writing, and was within 35 years of the Lord’s ascent to the Father.
It was the evil traditions of men that gave birth to the ‘catholic’ church, centuries after Paul’s epistles were written, and brought about the death of the church in the fourth century, not to be revived until over a millenium later when the Holy Spirit called Martin Luther to the task of breathing life back into it.
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