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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LLCF who wrote (22682)	10/14/2005 10:00:01 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"notice I said the 'Catholic Church' claims to... which of course I suppose IS their job {interpreting the bible}... not that I think they do it well." I don't know who told you that. The OT is the Protestant Bible as much as the Catholic Bible. en.wikipedia.org You had said that: "In fact his teachings directly contradict in several places as I've said". So my question to you was: How on earth do YOU know what contradicts what Jesus says or believes when YOU are the one deciding what is and isn't Divine and Holy in the bible? When you run into contradictions you need to either reconcile them (as fundamentalists attempt unsuccessfully to do to show that the bible is inerrant and infallible), or you can simply cherry pick the things that appear Divinely inspired to you and toss out the rest. "How do I know what he taught whether it's divine or not?" If you were a Christian you would believe it to be Divine teachings. Christians believe that the Bible is the word of God. It appeared to me that you were venerating Jesus which might suggest Christian leanings. But perhaps you simply have an interest in mythology. "No wonder you think Jesus and the bible as being interpreted by religion is some evil conspiracy." You have certainly misunderstood me, but whether willfully so or out of a genuine ignorance--who is to know? I don't think that "mythology" equates to "evil conspiracy".