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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe it is all just stories, no?  Do you simply ignore all the verses you disagree with?  Do you think this buffet-style Christianity is ultimately fulfilling?

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But you just described the essence of Christianity!  We pick and choose what to keep from the OT and ignore what we feel like leaving out. [/quote]

Have you actually read the entire Bible?  At least the New Testament?  Again, this is explained pretty well in the New Testament, so you also have missed some really, really basic Christian theology.  Once you start dismissing the New Testament too, you might as well throw the whole thing out.  That’s all I’m saying.  [/quote]. Yes. I went to catholic school k thru 12 and my kid goes to catholic. She’s learned about Moses, Jacob, Solomon et al. And Jesus. But we ignore Leviticus. Explain. [/quote]

If you had religion in high school, you should realize that there are a lot of other books, including gospels, that were excluded from the official final version the various editions of the Bible currently in print. People, human beings, made choices about what to include and exclude. [/quote]

The books chosen for the Bible were not some random choice, but the result of a consensus in the early church.  Either way, they are an authoritative source.  There are many early writings by these early Christians that shed light on many issues, and along with the Bible, [b]many Christians[/b] consider these to be authoritative sources.  Again, basic stuff.  You can either choose to accept the Bible, or not accept it and go with your own thing.  But your own thing is not Christianity, it’s your personal spirituality, which is fine.  But don’t act like the Bible is somehow not relevant to Christian belief because you don’t like something in it or that you can’t even be bothered to understand basic concepts in it.[/quote]

Many Christians is not the same as all Christians.

Someone is a Christian if they believe that Jesus is the son of God, or the "way, the truth and the light".  Belief in Jesus is what makes someone a Christian.   Two people can have enormously different opinions about other questions, including which books are the inspired word of God (e.g. all of the Bible, the Gospels, the Book of Tobit, the book of Mormon), but if they both believe that Jesus was the son of God, then they are both Christian.  Someone who believes in a more conservative form of Christianity isn't "more Christian".  There is no "more" or "less".  [/quote]

LOL considering the Bible authoritative (if not always literal) is definitely not “conservative.”  Especially the New Testament!  And most Christians do not consider Mormons Christians. [/quote]

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