(May 14, 2015 at 8:08 am)Randy Carson Wrote: ...
Quote:hmm... how about coming down myself and making it perfectly clear? And by that I mean, you know... not causing 44,000 schisms in my religion, not to mention the existence of other ones.
Given that there ARE 44,000 denominations who do teach a common core, I'd say that at least 2 billion people on the planet ARE reasonably clear, and have been for 2,000 years.
But God did not CAUSE the schisms, did He?
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According to the Bible, he did willfully confuse people about such things. Here is Jesus on the subject; the "he" in verse 11 is Jesus, which you can tell if you look earlier in the book (since you are Catholic, I am giving it to you in the Douay-Rheims 1899 version):
Mark 4:
11 And he said to them: To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to them that are without, all things are done in parables:
12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand: lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
So Jesus wants people to be confused and go to hell, according to the book of Mark.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
