[smvoice]

I have heard some corrupting of God's word before, but NEVER to this extent. "Some believe that God chose these apparently contradictory passages to illustrate that we cannot rely upon the entire Bible in its unified context, not individual versus and snippets. Since none of us are clever enough to learn this by ourselves, we Catholics call upon the Magisterium to decide."

If this isn't the cherry on the heretic sundae, I don't know what is.

"ALL SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN BY INSPIRATION OF GOD, AND IS PROFITABLE FOR DOCTRINE, FOR REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION, FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAT THE MAN OF GOD MAY BE PERFECT, THROUGHLY FURNISHED UNTO ALL GOOD WORKS."

What is WRONG with you people? Do you think God is playing some GOTCHA game with mankind? And that He sent secret decoder rings to some fallible group of men to teach other fallible men HIS TRUTH???

[Natural Law]

"If this isn't the cherry on the heretic sundae, I don't know what is."

Good catch. I left out a word from what I was trying to say. It should have said:

"Some believe that God chose these apparently contradictory passages to illustrate that we cannot rely upon the entire Bible EXCEPT in its unified context, not individual versus and snippets.

My thanks and apologies.