Why there are so many denominations

[Drich]

Not to rephrase but to repeat: No one should follow what I have to say unless they want a relatively quick biblically based understanding of God.

I believe you mean your interpretation of a biblically based god, which is what I'm trying to get at. If you admit that everyone is wrong in their interpretation, what makes you assert that yours is valid enough that it's worth listening to?

Again and Again! it is not unless you want a quick answer. If you want your own answer then You petition God, and study the bible for yourself.

Don't have 20 years of patience for that? Want a relatively quick answer? Then ask me a biblically based question, and see what happens. If you do want one the move on. I have no authority besides what you lend me. As commanded by Christ. As modeled by the apostles over and over again.

I know the argument you are desperately trying to make, what you apparently do not understand is the catholic model where one is compelled by dominion and Authority is not present in biblical Christianity. The truth is only provide to those who ask and seek it but to no one else.

How do i know what I teach is absolute truth? I don't that is the point. It is to have you Ask Seek and Knock to your limits end for your own all encompassing understanding of it.

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How old are the scrolls? Between 408 and 44 BCE.

Even Jews understand that the DSS were written between the mid 2d century BCE ( c 140 or so) and 70 AD. They thus post date the Septuagint by a century or more and are of uncertain authorship based on recent scholarship.

Only xtian assholes try to shoehorn them back to a time prior to the Hasmonean period.

Thanks for confirming for me that you are, in fact, one of those assholes.


For the people who are interested in reality around here.

http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah

The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) is one of the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Qumran in 1947. It is the largest (734 cm) and best preserved of all the biblical scrolls, and the only one that is almost complete. The 54 columns contain all 66 chapters of the Hebrew version of the biblical Book of Isaiah. Dating from ca. 125 BCE, it is also one of the oldest of the Dead Sea Scrolls, some one thousand years older than the oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible known to us before the scrolls' discovery.

The version of the text is generally in agreement with the Masoretic or traditional version codified in medieval codices, such as the Aleppo Codex, but it contains many variant readings, alternative spellings, scribal errors, and corrections. Unlike most of the biblical scrolls from Qumran, it exhibits a very full orthography (spelling), revealing how Hebrew was pronounced in the Second Temple Period. Around twenty additional copies of the Book of Isaiah were also found at Qumran (one more copy was discovered further south at Wadi Muraba'at),

You do know that there were many other scrolls discovered at Qumran after the original 7 do you not? Maybe you should take a few hours and look up all that has been discovered there, and when your post can reflect a broader understanding of what has been found. Then we can talk responsibly about whatever you wish to bring up.