Re: What Theists Can't Answer

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 Governor Swill at 
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 typed this:

> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:39:49 -0400, "CB" <CB@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>> Faith is a gift of great im****tance in everyday life unless it leads
>>> to certainty from superstition.  In this case 'superstition' can be
>>> defined as baseless beliefs.  One believes one's crop failed because
>>> the neighbor is a witch.  The proof of this is that one night very
>>> late when everybody should be asleep, one happened to wake and find
>>> a disliked neighbor walking near the fence and moving his hands
>>> mysteriously.
>>
>> A good Bible based church helps protect us from cult mentalities.
>> One whose faith is based on wide consciences (mainstream).
>
> "A good Bible based church" is as subject to disagreement and
> translation debates every bit as much as a church that accepts a broad
> array of beliefs among their pari****oners.  Come to think of it
> though, all Churches are based on their particular scripture whether
> it's the Bible, the Koran or the Torah.
>
> FWIW, history demonstrates that most often, the churches which claim
> to be based on scripture rather than consensus have been the radical,
> fundamentalist ones.  The Puritans come to mind as does The Church of
> God in the US.  The latter is most usually where I hear "bible based"
> intoned as if all other Christian religions are operating on some
> other scripture not included in the OT or NT.
>
> I've noticed that the more a particular sect intones that it's beliefs
> are based on "what the Bible says, not what you're told it means" the
> more likely they are to dictate to you what that is.
>
> A disagreement I had with the Church occurred when I realized that
> Church doctrine over the millennia had developed not from what Jesus
> said or what the Twelve wrote, those parts are generally taken as
> history and background, but on what Paul (a Roman businessman) said
> was so.  Let's hear it for Paul the Roman, the L Ron Hubbard of the
> Roman period!
>
> Swill

LOL!  All too true.