[ArrogantBustard]

Me: What does the Bible say? Look around what passes for Christendom these days, and you'll find numerous contradictory answers to that question. How is a third party to distinguish one from another, to find the "correct" message of the Bible in the competing fray of contradictions? By mere offensiveness?

Thee: "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth". (2Timothy 2:15).

And ... what? An ill considered interpretation of that passage has resulted in the competing fray of contradictions. Would you simply have our hypothetical "third party" add his voice to the babble? Again, how is he to judge? By offensiveness? By some other means?

Please, be specific.

[small voice in the wilderness]

By realizing that the Word of Truth can and must be divided. this is not truth from lies, it is truth from truth. The Gospel of the Kingdom was a truth. The Gospel of the Grace of God is a truth. They are not the same. what happened? Something changed. Where is the division between the two? do you want me to answer or do you want to think about it and answer?