@wvpeach,
wvpeach;37761 wrote:Silver child
again I find this post of yours fascinating . And you seem like a reasonable person to discuss the scriptures with so I'm game.
Am I taking from your posts that you agree Christ did not do away with Gods commands , holy days and sabbath from the OT?
I do not believe he did , I believe Christ only clarified what Father God said , not did away with it. But I am ever learning about the Holy Word and expect that will continue as long as I am alive. So I welcome study partners when I can find civil ones.
Maybe we can study this together in a fruitful way on another thread, as it seems died for you only means to hit and run with short statements that make no sense to me so I am about to give this one up.
it's just
silverchild no space. I'm pushing 30 so while I wish I was a child I'm afraid I'm losing grasp on my youth, although I was carded three times at the Ducks game :-)
My concern with modern Christianity is how little they know about the Bible. Not the word for word text, but rather how it came to be. For example the choice of conservative protestants these days is the KJV (not the NKJV), the irony is for the first 100years after it's release Protestants wouldn't touch it because they felt it was too much like the Latin Vulgar
Going further, most Christians view the Gospels as some authoritative journal kept by the apostles, when in fact they are not.
The oldest Gospel is John, and the oldest version on earth dates back to roughly 125CE (about 90 years post crucifixion and therefore not actually written by john unless he wrote it well after his 100th birthday). An interesting note is that this very early gospel doesn't actually say anything of a resurrection, in fact that won't appear in writing for another 30 years. Christian Apologists, such as those interviewed for Lee Strobel's "The Case for Christ" (which I've read) say that prior to the writing of the Gospels they were passed along as oral traditions. Even the apologists claim that in that day only 40-60% of the source document would have remained pure from oral tradition.
Yet to this day there are uneducated people, who claim to be "true believers" who ignorantly overlook many of the glaring contradictions in the Bible claiming that those who find them just "misunderstand". I simply do not attempt to draw a line connecting dots which do not join...