Here is a piece of advice, however, that you might actually follow: read the scripture slowly and read all of it. The Protestants skip from prooftext to prooftext; for every passage that runs counter to protestantism (like most glaringly James 2 or Matthew 16, or Matthew 25 or John 6) there is a ready spin to dismiss it. The
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Fascinating. Low these many shared threads and I'm still known so exasperateingly little as to be misperceived, misconstrued and outrageously misdescribed so repeatedly.
Very sad, that.
For the record . . . I HAVE READ THE BIBLE COVER TO COVER MANY TIMES IN A VARIETY OF TRANSLATIONS. Am now on the 2nd reading in THE MESSAGE VERSION. I always read it slowly and thoughtfully, prayerfully.
Goodness, if I'm so misperceived, misjudged, misconstrued--here in living color through my colorful fingers in real time . . . no wonder Romanists have such a horrid time avoiding misconstruing Scripture and history.
That, incidentally, is a horrid translation. Read Douay.