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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just want to hear if anyone has something about Christianity or the Bible that they don’t get or confuses them [/quote]

How did some random folks a couple thousand years ago managed to somehow write stuff we still discuss today?[/quote]

God inspired the writers of the Bible, even though most didn’t know each other and never met each other. But all of what the writers wrote forms a coherent message that is called the Bible.

Because I believe the Bible is truth, we still discuss it and it is still practical, even though it was written thousands of years ago. The Bible itself declares that it cannot be destroyed and it’s message is everlasting. That’s why it’s been around for so long, even through all the attempts in history to destroy it.[/quote]

How do you know that the translations you are reading the bible in are actually conveying the exact same thing that was written in the original Hebrew and Aramaic? How do you know that the texts on the very first scrolls, which no longer today exist, didn't get changed over the course of the centuries as they were transcribed by one scribe after the next (like in the game of telephone)? The oldest texts in existence are only 2000 years old, so essentially from the time of Jesus, well after any of the Old Testament stuff happened.  The oldest text from the Gospels dates to the 2nd century AD, so well after Jesus died.   I don't get the blind following of texts that you haven't actually read in the original language. Translation can really get things wrong.

And why do you think that the old sacred  texts that have been rejected from the biblical canon weren't also inspired by God? What about the Book of Enoch? What about the Gnostic Gospels? What about the book of Tobit or the other 6 Old Testament books accepted by Catholics but rejected by Protestants? Who gets to decide what is sacred?

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I read several different translations of a verse to get a good understanding of what the verse is trying to say. It’s good to consider different interpretations. And while each translation is different, the main themes are usually the same. Of course, there are some crap versions out there.

I don’t believe the Apocraphya should be in the Bible, because they contradict what’s already in the Bible. I don’t believe they’re inspired. I really wanted to, especially with the Book of Enoch. But I think that those books can still contain a lot of truth with some false ideas mixed in, that’s why I consider what is already canon as the supreme authority and always be cautious when reading the apocryphal texts. The Catholic Church rejects what was decided by the early church councils who put together the earliest 66 book Bible, that’s why they use the Apocrophya [/quote]

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