In BIBLE we trust? - Misplaced allegiance?

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St. SteVen

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If you are saying that God is not a book, I agree with you.
Yes. You got it.
- God is not a book
- God is not a verse
- God is not the words in a book
- God is not a church
- God is not a doctrine
- God is not an interpretation of words in a book

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St. SteVen

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Is that because they hold to the Bible's teaching instead of yours?
There is no consensus. Don't blame me for that.

Do you really believe that everyone is on one side of the fence and I am on the other? - LOL

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Yes. You got it.
- God is not a book
- God is not a verse
- God is not the words in a book
- God is not a church
- God is not a doctrine
- God is not an interpretation of words in a book

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However, God and Jesus are quoted often in the Bible.
 

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There is no consensus. Don't blame me for that.

Do you really believe that everyone is on one side of the fence and I am on the other? - LOL

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I'm addressing you. You attack the credibility of the Bible. I believe you do that because you don't like what it teaches. So you endeavor to discredit others as making an idol of the Bible, and to discredit the Bible itself as our source of information about God and life and everything.

Much love!
 

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Wow, "mushroom theology"? That's a curious term.
I can think of at least two directions that could go. - LOL

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Mushroom theology .
First we must consider what works best for a mushroom . Lots of dark and lots of bull .
And believe me , i see lots of folks keeping their congregations in the dark with daily feeds of bull doctrine .
This might work well for a mushroom . But it wont bode well for the people who fed or do feed of it .
 

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I'm addressing you. You attack the credibility of the Bible. I believe you do that because you don't like what it teaches. So you endeavor to discredit others as making an idol of the Bible, and to discredit the Bible itself as our source of information about God and life and everything.

Much love!
This is why folks do as they do . you NAILED IT SPOT ON RIGHT my friend . THEY dont LIKE some of what is in the bible
but they cant just come out and directly attack the bible itself and thus they try and make it seem
as those who put their trust in THEM HOLY WORDS are somehow comitting IDOLATRY . YOU GOT IT SPOT ON RIGHT .
But good news i do have for all . THE SHEEP WONT BE HEEDING THEM . we stayin DUG IN THE BIBLE .
 

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You attack the credibility of the Bible. I believe you do that because you don't like what it teaches.
I question the credibility of the Bible because it lacks credibility on the level you claim it is credible.
We don't even have the original documents. Just one of three methods at a best guess as to what was written.
The gospel accounts were written decades after the events.
And the synoptic gospels are basically three copies of the same document.

But mostly I attack the credibility of the interpretation of the Bible.
And YES, many make an idol of the book and worship it ABOVE the author.
Too many work to know the book more than the author.
Mostly because they believe that the book is their only connection to the author.
Without the book, they have no God.

But apparently you don't have a problem with any of this.
Your problem is with me.

Here is our oldest copy of a copy of a copy... of the Gospel of John.
Only a fragment left. Front and back.

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Which is effectively the same as, "Every man did what was right in his own eyes", because we read the Bible with our own eyes.

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sounds like you in the spot THEY WANT YOU IN . this lamb aint buying all that mess .
 
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Probably "quoted" and misquoted. Do all translations agree? Do you know where the Bible came from?

Majority Text vs. Critical Text vs. Textus Receptus – Textual Criticism 101​

Majority Text vs. Critical Text vs. Textus Receptus - Textual Criticism 101 - Berean Patriot

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I would disagree with you when you say that God and Jesus are probably misquoted in the Bible. I don't think the Bible lies. That doesn't mean I agree with all the opinions expressed by Paul and Peter, but I don't think anyone is misquoted.

The Bible has 66 books, each with its own origin. I don't know all the details of how each of those books came to be.

If all translations agreed, there'd be no need for more than one. But I think most are pretty close.
 
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I would disagree with you when you say that God and Jesus are probably misquoted in the Bible. I don't think the Bible lies. That doesn't mean I agree with all the opinions expressed by Paul and Peter, but I don't think anyone is misquoted.
I think the problem is that the translation work is colored by the doctrinal bias of the translators and their employers.
Translation methods vary widely as well. It's a very complicated process. Try reading the document at the link I provided.
You will discover in short order what is involved. Even the translators agree that one of the biggest problems
is that they have so many manuscripts. An enormous task. And which ones to use?
The oldest? The majority copies? The copies accepted by the church as "doctrinally correct"?
What if the "doctrinally correct" versions disagree with the oldest and most original?

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I think the problem is that the translation work is colored by the doctrinal bias of the translators and their employers.
Translation methods vary widely as well. It's a very complicated process. Try reading the document at the link I provided.
You will discover in short order what is involved. Even the translators agree that one of the biggest problems
is that they have so many manuscripts. An enormous task. And which ones to use?
The oldest? The majority copies? The copies accepted by the church as "doctrinally correct"?
What if the "doctrinally correct" versions disagree with the oldest and most original?

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If you look at it that way, it becomes easy to dismiss the Bible entirely. I won't do that. I will believe the Bible accurately quotes God and Jesus. There might be versions that don't do that, but I bet the major versions are accurate.