***The truth written in Scripture or the “truth” that a bunch of guys twisted around to suit themselves and then foisted on the world ever since?***
Umm, you may wish to consider what Scripture is. It is what we wrote as an accompanying manual for the teachings of the Church. The Church is what Jesus left for us, not writings. The NT wasn’t put together for 300 years after Jesus was taken up to Heaven.
DING! DING! DING!!!
We have a winner, folks!
The church at Rome wrote the Bible!!!
Such foul hubris knows no limit.
God forgive them.
“The NT wasn’t put together for 300 years after Jesus was taken up to Heaven.”
Ah, another man made fallacy. The letters of the Apostles were circulating the churches as soon as they were written. They had the “Old Testament” scriptures already.
I’m not interested in the “teachings of the Church”, I’m interested in the teachings of Christ, in His words and the explanations of Peter, John, Paul, Luke etc.
If you’ve got a “manual”, then I suggest you get a Bible and start reading.