[tbpiper]

But 2000 years of human editing and "spinning"

Do you have a firm basis from which you can make such a claim?

[tkathy]

But 2000 years of human editing and "spinning"

If you look at the revisionism and spinning of events in our own time, such as the Vietnam War, the deifying of Kennedy (who started Vietnam), there is good cause to suspect that the absolute truth of the biblical times is lost forever. It may be better to concentrate on the wonderful mystical aspects of Christ rather than the vicious mass tortures and murders of the times.

[Dudoight]

You don't think that in the 2000 years since Christ that there has been various interpretations and spin of Christianity by Christian sects? Most recently, David Koresh's bunch, early colonial times: the Salem Witch trials. Think about it. Various 'rules' in various present day religions have changed. For example, Homosexual clergy, fish on Friday....all the variants vary, depending on the human entities authoring the variants. None of these man made spins have anything to do with the core mystery and truths of Christianity.