But the Romans have put on top of biblical statements (whose manuscripts date at latest to the first century AD, questions of the date of official recognition aside) stipulations that certain earthly artifacts not mentioned in those statements are a must for incorporation into a valid faith. We’re expected to believe that the apostles were either written a blank check from the bible with no closure of doctrine, or that they were talking about this stuff from the word go and nobody bothered to record it till much later.
and THAT is bogus -- this discussion has nothing to do with Bachman but is a ploy to get conservatives to fight and perhaps then associate Michele with divisiveness.