nPeace
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Great! Then by all means find a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, and regularly attend the meetings each week, and don't hold back from requesting a free home Bible Study.Thank you for all of the passages. I love reading passages I haven't heard before.
Not only will you be reading scriptures you never read before, but you will hear and understand things you never knew before - things that are accurate... unlike what is found written on the page you linked below.
Matthew was the first Gospel written... followed by Luke, then Mark.I can reject that which was obviously written by man. If someone were to write a book or letters today and say God dictated to him or her, no one would believe it. It would not be placed in the Bible. Why are these particular books and letters considered to be completely accurate? They were not written at the time of Jesus. They were written later. Many people since the Bible have stated that God has dictated to them. Many were found to be frauds. Just because a group of religious men got together and declared these books to be of God, does not make it so. In fact, Mark was changed. Originally, Jesus did not die on the cross and was not resurrected in Mark. Someone wrote the ending in.
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org...-of-mark-and-why-it-makes-all-the-difference/
Why do you believe that those scholars got it right? Why believe them?
It's strange to me how people doubt a written record, which we have from over a century ago - corroborated by other writers living closer to the events than today's guessers - guessing the best they can, and people prefer to believe the guessers.
Does that not bother you?
Does anyone question that Nebuchadnezzar wrote anything?
Many more things people say, that may be as far from the truth, as North is to South... I am sure they are.And there are many more things. The Bible is not inerrant.
There are many professed Christians.And I do hear much more hatred toward gay people than toward adulterous or other people who go against the Ten Commandments. It is all over the news constantly. So, I don't know which people you are talking about who care about adultery. I remember a church group called God hates ****. These people were very adamantly hateful which goes against Jesus teaching love. They definitely were not Christians, just haters.
We know what a Christian is. (Matthew 7:16)
If a "carpenter" turned up at your home, carrying a flame thrower, I'm sure you would be quite nervous, and in a short time, you would certainly know if the guy was a carpenter, or not.
I think people choose to believe what they want, for reasons of convenience. From my experience, the Bible is completely harmonious and complimentary.
I don't see how it's possible to claim to love it, and at the same time pick out parts we like, while discarding other parts. It sounds Pharisaic.
Have you examined the Bible for yourself, in order to determine if is is true?
Do you doubt it's truthfulness? By what means do you determine its reliability or unreliability? Is it based on what "scholars" say?