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Why?
By: Mike Date: January 2, 2015, 9:36 am
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Why is it that we accord far greater value to something that is
'ancient', or hidden until more recently discovered.
If I wrote some lengthy diatribe today and hid it in an old well
or cave, the likelihood is that, if unearthed in several
thousand years time, its archaic language and outdated thoughts
would be hailed as being of 'divine' inspiration.
Whereas today it would be hailed as being the heretical
ruminations of an idiot.
We are such silly and superstitious 'sheep', and just grasp out
for anything ancient that is easy to embrace after so called
expert translation, and difficult to refute in terms of outdated
transcript.
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Re: Why?
By: Kerry Date: January 2, 2015, 9:57 am
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^ I believe God's truths never change. If I got an idea today
that no one ever had before, I would doubt its validity no
matter how good it seemed to me. Surely if an idea is true, I
wouldn't be the first person to have it, would I? While
confessing to a degree of vanity, I simply can't dupe myself
into thinking I'm so special that I could be the first person on
the earth that God would reveal something to. I put great
importance then on finding my ideas being held by people long
ago.
I reject some of the early Christian doctrines as "innovations."
I think some of the ideas that became popular in the first
three or four centuries of Christianity have nothing to do with
Jesus, the Apostles, or the books of the Bible. They were
inventions by men. Then skip forward in time to the
Reformation. So far as I can see, they missed a great
opportunity; but instead of correcting anything, they increased
the number of errors by even more innovations. Things have
gotten worse over time as men invented "new" ideas, fancying
themselves to be the "first one" to whom God revealed something.
All that being said, Mike, I see your point; and maybe we
should remember that madness has been around a long time, just
as long as wisdom. As Solomon said, there is nothing new under
the sun.
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