exchemist
Veteran Member
No, the scriptures are the writings of holy men, trying to explain God to everybody else. That accounts for why they are often obscure, sometimes contradictory and even on occasion cruel.I always think of religion as man trying to explain God. It's like the Model-T trying to explain Henry Ford.
The scriptures, on the other hand, are God explaining Himself to us. They do say that we are one body with Christ as the head. God makes it clear in 1 Corinthians 1:10 that He wants us all united. The fact that we have 40,000 different denominations is enough evidence that the church has fallen far from what God wants.
I think you are absolutely right in saying that if one wants to know the truth, they must go to the scriptures and nothing but the scriptures.
Take care.
Two people can go to the scriptures and come away with quite ideas about what they mean. You are a fool if you just rely on reading it for yourself. You need to listen to what other people have thought about what it means, too.