I'm glad you're enjoying it, but you're letting your subjective feelings determine what you believe to be right and wrong. That's dangerous ground to be on. Just saying.
You're looking at this objectively and enjoying reading the Bible, something I don't see with most self-proclaimed Christians, so kudos to you!
I've had similar feelings for a long time and I'm very concerned, as a Christian, that we trust books chosen by mankind, and not necessarily God, as 100% true. I do believe most of it but I honestly believe the gospels more than anything and would let anything else go if I had good reason to believe it wasn't true.
I've e been meaning to read the Apocrypha, I think you might enjoy it as it isn't considered Canon by kost denominations.
Also, what about the fact that the Vatican has worked to hide things, such as biblical evidence and buying out an entire print run of some anti-catholic, atheist book (I may jot have those facts exactly right)? I think there are a lot of dirty secrets about the Christian religion that we may never know the details of, but I don't want to be a sheep, but I do still believe in Jesus Christ.
We have copies of what you're reading right now that are more than 2000 years old. Rome had no chance to "editorialize" the Dead Sea Scrolls--and when it comes to the New Testament in particular, they actively suppressed knowledge of what it said for centuries, but there were just too many copies floating around to change it. And I'm not talking about dangerous for others, although you're doing no one any favors by spreading these half-thought-out conjectures. I mean dangerous for you. Don't start from the assumption that corruption you're so quick to point out isn't also in your heart. If you trust your own judgement that implicitly, you'll read anything you want into the text, while completely ignoring what it actually says.
I'm glad you're enjoying it, but you're letting your subjective feelings determine what you believe to be right and wrong. That's dangerous ground to be on. Just saying.
You're looking at this objectively and enjoying reading the Bible, something I don't see with most self-proclaimed Christians, so kudos to you!
I've had similar feelings for a long time and I'm very concerned, as a Christian, that we trust books chosen by mankind, and not necessarily God, as 100% true. I do believe most of it but I honestly believe the gospels more than anything and would let anything else go if I had good reason to believe it wasn't true.
I've e been meaning to read the Apocrypha, I think you might enjoy it as it isn't considered Canon by kost denominations.
Also, what about the fact that the Vatican has worked to hide things, such as biblical evidence and buying out an entire print run of some anti-catholic, atheist book (I may jot have those facts exactly right)? I think there are a lot of dirty secrets about the Christian religion that we may never know the details of, but I don't want to be a sheep, but I do still believe in Jesus Christ.
We have copies of what you're reading right now that are more than 2000 years old. Rome had no chance to "editorialize" the Dead Sea Scrolls--and when it comes to the New Testament in particular, they actively suppressed knowledge of what it said for centuries, but there were just too many copies floating around to change it. And I'm not talking about dangerous for others, although you're doing no one any favors by spreading these half-thought-out conjectures. I mean dangerous for you. Don't start from the assumption that corruption you're so quick to point out isn't also in your heart. If you trust your own judgement that implicitly, you'll read anything you want into the text, while completely ignoring what it actually says.