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elijah23

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I believe the Bible is an accurate account of the events it relates.

I believe that when the Bible quotes God or Jesus (who I believe is God in flesh), those words need to be obeyed to the letter.

However, I think it is a stretch to believe the opinions expressed by Paul and the other epistle writers were always the opinions of God.
 
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Elijah23

I agree with you that "the Bible is an accurate account of the events it relates." But it doesn't matter because Christians don't believe in the Bible. They believe in their interpretations of the Bible. I would probably still be a Christian today if it were otherwise.

FC
 
Former Christian said:
Elijah23

I agree with you that "the Bible is an accurate account of the events it relates." But it doesn't matter because Christians don't believe in the Bible. They believe in their interpretations of the Bible. I would probably still be a Christian today if it were otherwise.

FC
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Jesus, I believe, is God in flesh. It is good to be a Christian.

I think a mistake many Christians make is that they all but ignore the teachings of Jesus, which are found in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and build a religion around the teachings of Paul. Paul was very wise, but Jesus was God in flesh.
 
elijah23 said:
I believe the Bible is an accurate account of the events it relates.

I believe that when the Bible quotes God or Jesus (who I believe is God in flesh), those words need to be obeyed to the letter.
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I'm curious, what are your reasons for believing the Bible is an accurate account of the events it relates? How do you know Jesus really said and did the things written in the gospels? On what evidence are you basing this belief? Since you have already begun to question whether Paul's writings were inspired by God, what is stopping you from questioning the gospels too, since they were also written by men decades after Jesus lived on earth?
 
JustWondering said:
I'm curious, what are your reasons for believing the Bible is an accurate account of the events it relates? How do you know Jesus really said and did the things written in the gospels? On what evidence are you basing this belief? Since you have already begun to question whether Paul's writings were inspired by God, what is stopping you from questioning the gospels too, since they were also written by men decades after Jesus lived on earth?
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There is a difference between recording events, as Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John did in the four Gospels, and understanding the Lord’s will, which is what the epistle writers are trying to do. No human being completely understands the Lords will. Paul says so himself:

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.
I Cor 13:12 RSV
 
Justwondering

Martin Luther started this kind of thinking for Protestants. He didn't think much of the book of James. A natural way of thinking in view of the way the Catholic Church says that it gave Christianity the Bible thus choosing what is to be retained and what is to be rejected. Luther was originally a Catholic. Makes some Christians think that they can pick and choose what constitutes the Bible. Doesn't help that there is a controversy over the Deuterocanonical/apocryphal books in the Old Testament. One of the Christian factions that began in the first millennium has even more books in their Bible than the Catholics.

FC
 
what about the relations within while'what a holy calf was built and uhhh.
i speak no i dont fight.
i may act though.

what's this holy war about? and it's pretty much what?
sry

i took care notes of paul in seperation while i thought dieng to.
but i live.

i gues i could be him
abrupt end...
 
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Justwondering

Martin Luther started this kind of thinking for Protestants. He didn't think much of the book of James. A natural way of thinking in view of the way the Catholic Church says that it gave Christianity the Bible thus choosing what is to be retained and what is to be rejected. Luther was originally a Catholic. Makes some Christians think that they can pick and choose what constitutes the Bible. Doesn't help that there is a controversy over the Deuterocanonical/apocryphal books in the Old Testament. One of the Christian factions that began in the first millennium has even more books in their Bible than the Catholics.

FC
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If read and obey the teachings of Jesus, which are found in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, I think you’ll do okay.
 
Nacho said:
The grass withers,the flowers fade, But the word of God stands forever.
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I would define the Word of God as the things that God and Jesus, who I believe is God in flesh, are quoted as saying in the Bible. Yes, those words will stay with us forever.
 
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