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To: Elsie
I do not have the expertise to be able to decide which parts to throw out.

neither do I. I do know that there were a whole slew of Gospels back in the day. The church (I am assuming the early Roman Church) edited down the Gospels to only those by the 4. I read there was a Gospel of Judas, if you can believe that.

I don't know what is the true bible. I believe Jesus is the messiah...I follow his moral teachings...after that I just don't know.

134 posted on 12/15/2008 5:44:50 AM PST by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero
I believe Jesus is the messiah...I follow his moral teachings...after that I just don't know.

There are a lot of things I don't 'know' either.

Since what I 'know' about Jesus COMES from the book these early church folks assembled from various writings, and what I 'believe' about Him also comes from the same book, I must, to be consistant, also 'believe' whatever else I find there.

True, there are many things that seem to require 'interpretation', but study of the subject can move many from the Belief column to the Knowledge column.

136 posted on 12/15/2008 5:50:30 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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