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To: Rashputin
Do you ignore Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation like Luther did or do you just redefine parts of those books to suit yourself? When your're ignoring and revising various chapters and verses to suit your own personal interpretation of Scriptures, do you insert whole pages of revised replacements you came up with or do you go verse by verse with Post-it notes layered one over the other?

My personal interpretation is that gays should not be clergy or in the ministry? What do those books have to do with that? Did they say somewhere that immorality in the leadership of the church is acceptable?

2,241 posted on 12/03/2011 8:42:44 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom
didn't read that, didn't need to

Luther came up with a new doctrine and then threw out seven books in the Old Testament and wanted to throw out books in the New Testament as well but his drinking buddy Phil didn't think that was a good move politically, so Luther let the books he didn't like in the New Testament stay but called them junk. Calvin added a book to the New Testament he included in his version of the canon saying what he wrote was every bit as inspired as what the Apostles wrote.

Since it's obvious that the originators of the doctrine of each individual having their own personal version of Scripture started with their own doctrine and then manipulated the Bible to suit themselves, why shouldn't everyone who interprets the Bible to suit themselves add and subtract books to suit their own interpretation of Scripture instead of crossing out so many verses and sticking Post-It notes everywhere?

Do all infallible interpreters of Scriptures who started by accepting a Bible with parts of the Old Testament thrown out buy special copies of the New Testament with some of the verses already crossed out or is adding and deleting verses something they all do for themselves because they are each and every one individually infallible and smarter than anyone who has ever lived before in the entire history of the world?

2,246 posted on 12/03/2011 8:58:03 AM PST by Rashputin (Obama stark, raving, mad, and even his security people know it.)
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