(November 13, 2017 at 12:22 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Adding to what Neo said about the bible... There are thousands of different denominations of Christianity across the world, but with the exception of small frindge groups, their differences are mostly small nuances. The fundamental Christian principles themselves are almost universally the same, despite the claim that interpretation of scripture is supposedly extremely subjective, and that the bible, in its entirety, doesn't provide an overall testimony. It very much does.
There have been wars fought over these 'nuances' ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarian_...Christians
You think believing in a 6,000 to 10,000 year old earth and an earth billions of years old in which humans have been around for the tiniest part of that history a small nuance ? One deals with actual original sin, the other uses it as a allegory.
Or That some Christians believe that we don't have free will is a small nuance?, almost all the arguments on here where god's love is called to question relies on free will, while other Christians dispose of the idea all together. Then you get full preterism that denies Jesus will return, and that the resurrection will be physical, on a physical earth. Or pre-tribulationist perhaps who have very different views on the second coming.
Even then you are still limiting it to the thousands of religions that use the bible as their source that you call Christian, what about those that still believe in Jesus and use the bible but generally would not be called Christians by the mainstream. ?
And that's just believers !! Bring in non believers who have no obligation to believe the bible at all and it becomes not subjective, but downright unbelievable.
'Those who ask a lot of questions may seem stupid, but those who don't ask questions stay stupid'