Being told what to believe by those in authority and power who came later, who weren’t even there with Jesus and most certainly weren’t eyewitnesses to anything that was foundational to Christianity, who collectively decided for us matters of approved doctrine and official beliefs and packaged it up and passed it down to us as orthodoxy, in the form of official creeds and confessions and catechisms…?
Or, being told by those who were actually there with Jesus, who heard Him speak and teach, who saw His miracles, who definitely were eyewitnesses to the events…especially the resurrection…who documented those events, and who were responsible for the eventual evangelization of the entire world, what they placed their hope and faith in…?
Should we put the weight back on what is weightiest…?
Yes. The Word gives us all we need and it sure doesn't include "extras" that came along later, extras to drag us back into the old law, extras to further the political and power control over the people, and extras to further their own existence.
It was/is the existence of these "extras" which have caused the deaths of millions of people in the names of "Christian" religions. It was/is the existence of these "extras" which have perpetuated the separation of us from God, not brought us any closer.
Ed
"Not in an open forum, where truth has less value than opinions, where all opinions are equally welcome regardless of their origins, rationale, inanity, or truth, where opinions are neither of equal value nor decisive." Ken Howell
