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<blockquote data-quote="Sammie" data-source="post: 513200" data-attributes="member: 8657"><p><em><span style="color: darkgreen">Correct me if I'm wrong Tourist, but I think you stand hard and fast about</span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: darkgreen">believers and non believers. There's either doubt-free faith or those who feel there's no such thing as absolute certainty. This is where you and I may differ. Can I have doubts and still consider myself a Christian? Of course I can.</span></em></p><p> </p><p><em><span style="color: darkgreen">About the video you wanted us to watch, I didn't listen to all of it but</span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: darkgreen">I believe I get it's drift. The minister mentions the gospel writers and who</span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: darkgreen">wrote what. In regards to the Bible, most of the world couldn't read or write two thousand years ago. History was recorded thru oral tradition. In the ancient times of Jesus, only the nobility, scholars and priests knew how to read and write. Were Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Jude, Peter and James highly educated? And how many of them actually knew Jesus, who didn't associate with the upper echelon. I've read that there could have been 20 - 30 generations between the actual time of Christ and when the oral traditions began to be written. A lot can be lost in translation during that time so that's why I take the Bible with a grain of salt. </span></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sammie, post: 513200, member: 8657"] [I][COLOR=darkgreen]Correct me if I'm wrong Tourist, but I think you stand hard and fast about[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=darkgreen]believers and non believers. There's either doubt-free faith or those who feel there's no such thing as absolute certainty. This is where you and I may differ. Can I have doubts and still consider myself a Christian? Of course I can.[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=darkgreen][/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=darkgreen]About the video you wanted us to watch, I didn't listen to all of it but[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=darkgreen]I believe I get it's drift. The minister mentions the gospel writers and who[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=darkgreen]wrote what. In regards to the Bible, most of the world couldn't read or write two thousand years ago. History was recorded thru oral tradition. In the ancient times of Jesus, only the nobility, scholars and priests knew how to read and write. Were Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Jude, Peter and James highly educated? And how many of them actually knew Jesus, who didn't associate with the upper echelon. I've read that there could have been 20 - 30 generations between the actual time of Christ and when the oral traditions began to be written. A lot can be lost in translation during that time so that's why I take the Bible with a grain of salt. [/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=darkgreen] [/COLOR][/I] [/QUOTE]
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