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Hello, Gavin!Welcome back! This is a classy blog! ...

2006-07-02T14:29:00.000+12:00

Hello, Gavin!

Welcome back! This is a classy blog!

I hope, also, that the Painful Truth will be back and running in the near future.

Betty B.

Hello, Jered Said, about the Bible, : "This was a...

2006-06-24T00:27:00.000+12:00

Hello,

Jered Said, about the Bible, : "This was a book assembled by men of the Catholic church who had final say on what did and did not make it into cannonization".

Well, this claim is not necesserily true. That's what a lot of people seems to think - yet another explanation is that it's the Apostles Paul, Peter and John themselves who made the canonization or, at least, that the canonization was made largely before the Catholic Church ever existed.

May I suggest a book I read few times ago concerning the Bible question - references below. It's a Scholar study - but if I'm not wrong the writer - Ernest L. Martin had been for a time in the WCG in the 60' but quit because of disagreement with Mr Armstrong's incorrect views on some knowledge. I was not there since I was born in Brussels in 1970, so I don't know exactly what was the problems.

Yet, I like to read scholars point-of-view on the COG claims (I don't care if they are not Christians - paradoxically, I think it's sometimes a good point not being a Christian scholars). Even if I'm in one of these COG in Belgium, I applied the biblical notion of "examine everything like the Berean"... and I refuse to bow before the "leading preacher" because he say something (as a lot of people blindly did sadly with Mr Armstrong, with all the consequences after is dead - Mr Armstrong was not the problem here, but the fact that so much people blindly see him as the new apostle, or the prophet Elisha-Elija?, without examine anything he said). God is the real boss, CHrist the real chief of the Church and not men.

Hope the book will be of some interest for you and others.

Wish you an excellent day,

Joël

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Concerning the book I mentionned you can read it FREE online if you want at :
http://www.askelm.com/restoring/

or
you can buy it :

"RESTORING THE ORIGINAL BIBLE"
By Ernest L. Martin, Ph.D. - 1994
Edited by David Sielaff, 2004

ISBN 0-945657-83-8
The Associates for Scriptural Knowledge
P.O. Box 25000
Portland, Oregon 97298 USA
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The whole concept of the Bible as being the "final...

2006-06-09T02:31:00.000+12:00

The whole concept of the Bible as being the "final authority" is suspect unless your a Roman Catholic. This was a book assembled by men of the Catholic church who had final say on what did and did not make it into cannonization.

That so many people disagree vehemently with the Catholic church yet still take the Bible as the "only" and "final" authority on Christianity is baffling.

And the argument that most give saying that, "God inspired the Catholic preists to get the Bible right," is a complete load of horse puckey. If you believe that then you must believe in the authority of the Catholic Church.

The Bible as the "only" authority of Christianity is a staggering deception that nobody even blinks at.

"The Gospels circulated a long time before agreeme...

2006-06-07T08:50:00.000+12:00

"The Gospels circulated a long time before agreement was reached on who actually wrote them."

I'm afraid there isn't a shred of historical evidence to support that. It's true that the Gospels themselves do not identify their authors, but there is no historical record in the early centuries of the Christian religion of any doubts regarding the authorship of the four gospel, unless you count the claim of the Alogi that the Johannine books were actually written by St. John's nemesis Cerinthus. Other than that, there is no other tradition of authorship of the four Gospels than the most ancient and commonly accepted one. The earliest primary sources indicate that "agreement was reached" on the authorship of the four Gospels very early on. Indeed, there's no compelling reason to believe anyone else but the traditional authors wrote the four Gospels, which would explain why that "agreement" was so early and so widespread.