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Very wise. We cannot know otherwise. Our Reality itself manifests in the Consciousness of God. We know consciousness has unlimited imagination. Consciousness is the "mind of God" and Jesus had the "mind of God" so that makes everything possible for Him.
Why do you feel your only method of knowing anything about God and what it wants is through the Bible that must be literal ? How did illiterate Christians get along without a personal Bible for 1700 or so years ?
Thank God (who you refer to as an it) for the ignore feature on this forum.
Why do you feel your only method of knowing anything about God and what it wants is through the Bible that must be literal ? How did illiterate Christians get along without a personal Bible for 1700 or so years ?
there were spiritual explanations while Paul was around , and his hand picked spiritual people ran his churches. may be till about Constantine.
Thank God (who you refer to as an it) for the ignore feature on this forum.
For accurately pointing out that Christians , as well as most people , were largely illiterate for thousands of years, and didn’t possess a personal Bible if they were literate unless they were rich ?
LOL . I suspect someone doesn’t understand history and doesn’t realize that most people were illiterate until about the 1700’s , and took the comment as an insult to Christians . So I guess we can add history to the things some Christians aren’t real up on .
For accurately pointing out that Christians , as well as most people , were largely illiterate for thousands of years, and didn’t possess a personal Bible if they were literate unless they were rich ?
LOL . I suspect someone doesn’t understand history and doesn’t realize that most people were illiterate until about the 1700’s , and took the comment as an insult to Christians . So I guess we can add history to the things some Christians aren’t real up on .
I've brought that up here before and was told that I was wrong. I realized there was no point in continuing the conversation.
Funny, I was listening to a radio talk show about technology's impact on history while I was driving, and the interviewee mentioned the printing press, which enabled the common person to be able to read the Bible without a priest telling them what they said, and how the Church hated it and tried to ban it as evil until they realized they could use the press to print indulgences. But THEN, Martin Luther realized HE could use a printed document for his purposes...and oh what a mess it made, giving the ability to have printed material to so many common people...
Lol. But you are still ignoring my question. Can you answer it or not?
Yes, o.k all scripture is god breathed. It means the holy spirit, the helper, aka God himself (in 3 persons) comes into the Christian's Soul making it eternal and eternally connected to the Father. No more estrangement.
For accurately pointing out that Christians , as well as most people , were largely illiterate for thousands of years, and didn’t possess a personal Bible if they were literate unless they were rich ?
LOL . I suspect someone doesn’t understand history and doesn’t realize that most people were illiterate until about the 1700’s , and took the comment as an insult to Christians . So I guess we can add history to the things some Christians aren’t real up on .
That is not the only thing most Christians are not up on, Nate!
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I've brought that up here before and was told that I was wrong. I realized there was no point in continuing the conversation.
Funny, I was listening to a radio talk show about technology's impact on history while I was driving, and the interviewee mentioned the printing press, which enabled the common person to be able to read the Bible without a priest telling them what they said, and how the Church hated it and tried to ban it as evil until they realized they could use the press to print indulgences. But THEN, Martin Luther realized HE could use a printed document for his purposes...and oh what a mess it made, giving the ability to have printed material to so many common people...
Why do you feel your only method of knowing anything about God and what it wants is through the Bible that must be literal ? How did illiterate Christians get along without a personal Bible for 1700 or so years ?
What does that have to do with whether the Bible is God-breathed?
What does that have to do with whether the Bible is God-breathed?
It doesn't. It just serves as a powerful piece of evidence that "sola scriptura" is a self-defeating proposition as it could not have possibly been normative or practical for the vast majority of Christian history.
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That is not the only thing most Christians are not up on, Nate!
