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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Churches are human-created organizations and so inherently fallible.  Show me a church or a person that follows the Bible exactly.  You know, the stoning and all.[/quote]
Read the first few verses of John 8. We apparently get to stone people if we have no sins of our own. Fortunately, the only person who met that criteria was Christ, and he threw the stone at Himself, figuratively speaking.

People who get hung up on the stoning thing haven't tried to understand the Bible. That was a Jewish law for a people God was bringing the Messiah through. Christ did away with it. It's all in the Bible.[/quote]

Understanding the Bible is essential to understanding Christianity.  It is the book God gave us to understand what he requires from us and what great benefits belief in him give us.  For centuries, most of God's children were illiterate and had to depend on a select few to tell them what was in the Bible.  People outside of a small area in the middle east and then Europe didn't know about the Bible at all and depended on missionaries almost 2000 years later to spread the word.  Even then, some people rejected the Bible and adhered to religions that originated in their countries before transportation methods existed to bring Christianity to them.

Now, thanks to the Internet and the massive increase in literacy, the Bible is much more easily available to everyone.  [/quote]

It's called conversion.  And when you use an ancient fairy tale as a way to reach illiterate masses, you are in big time control.

had nothing to do with a god - and everything to do with controlling the masses[/quote]

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