Please wait...
Just like an abusive boyfriend, most traditional religions are.
Bent to my Will or Burn.
Best case scenario concerning the pope: He has a speedy recovery
and then immediately retires.
Why wait? He should abdicate right now.
The power hungry never give up their power over the serfs willingly.
Wed Feb 26 2025 14:19:25 UTC from IGnatius T FoobarWhy wait? He should abdicate right now.
Mon Mar 24 2025 21:34:48 UTC from IGnatius T FoobarYeah. Apparently he's out of the hospital and getting ready to do a gigantic lame duck streak of apostasy. I hope and pray that he drives many many people out of the roman catholic "church" and towards genuine Bible-believing churches.
you all have your own bible that you believe in. what makes any one better than any other?
2025-03-25 08:29 from PanaSonic
Mon Mar 24 2025 21:34:48 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar
Yeah. Apparently he's out of the hospital and getting ready to
do a gigantic lame duck streak of apostasy. I hope and pray
that he drives many many people out of the roman catholic
"church" and towards genuine Bible-believing churches.
you all have your own bible that you believe in. what makes
any one better than any other?
I am not particularly CHristian or anything, but the Catholic church, as an institution, is very inconsistent. So yeah I am willing to buy protestantism is "better" by some vage definition of "better".
By the way, protestants and catholics believe in the same magic book.
Internally consistent message spanning thousands of years and 40 or so human authors confirms authenticity of the "magic" of the book. Isaiah 53 was written before the first Roman crucifixion took place but hundreds of years later, that's what happened to the messiah.
Ironically, the word "magic" was invented by engineers called "magi" in ancient Babylon who needed to maintain trade secrets in the absence of intellectual property laws. There was a group of magi that recognized Jesus as King of Kings by giving valuable gifts. The modern Christian calendar is based on that recognition and is still used by secular governments to this day.
you all have your own bible that you believe in. what makes any one
better than any other?
As most of you know, I'm a pretty hardcore Bible-believing Christian. And a recovering Catholic. I have a lot of objections to things the roman catholic "church" has done, but to be fair, they've only messed with the Textus Receptus minimally. Mostly the inclusion/exclusion of the apocrypha and how they unpacked Exodus 20:2-13 into ten commandments. Not nearly as bad as the mormons who just added a third testament and started making shit up.
But I do think the "inerrant as originally given" claim holds up to scrutiny, as SamuraiCrow has suggested.
"Better" can be an awfully subjective claim, though, especially when reading the text in any language other than that in which it was originally recorded.
Pre-V2 Catholics looked poorly upon reading it in any language other than Latin.
Crispies think anything other than King James 1611 is the devil's bible.
Me, I
am pretty happy with ESV or NIV, and I know that sometimes I'm going to have to look up some meaning of the translator's word choice to get a better idea of what it meant.
And that's OK !
Not really. Regardless of my personal feelings about 'the book', consistency like that only shows that they are all repeating the same things, be it truth, manipulative lies, or totally made up fiction. It does not validate the content in any way ( or invalidate, to be fair )
Internally consistent message spanning thousands of years and 40 or so human authors confirms authenticity of the "magic" of the book.