. Anytime there's a fracture within a congregation, any jack-ass with a Bible under their arm can call themselves a "preacher" and is free to go out and reinvent it in their own image and start a new "church". Everytime that happens, it dilutes what The Church was supposed to be and becomes another degree removed from it.
The church already became diluted when Paul
relaxed the Rules of membership regarding
Torah compliance and he had no Bible under
his arm as we today know it, nor had he ever
known or met an earthly Jesus.
Most mistakenly associate Christianity with Church, because with them, it ends there. They were never Christians at all.
How can one prove anyone to be Xtian?
. Back when they were deciding which books to put in the bible and which ones to toss, who made that decision? If you want to believe that God told them then hand all you money over to the mega churches, .
Late 4th century by time the state apparatus
decided on the content and then had to wait
till 15th century before the printing press arrived.
yet folks were still largely illiterate up until the
19th century..that's some amazing plan g0d
had for getting his word out.
