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As a church we are told to fellowship with other believers.

"Where two or more are gathered..."
That does not take away the flexibility to choose who that other/others can be. I'm pretty selective, after years of trial and error. Most often it is only me and Mother Nature enjoying "full communion" with the Spirit. Any place. Any time.

I get the idea that these guys worship a book more than Jesus.

Awesome post. And I can definitely relate.

LOL. Good point, but on the other hand, we would know very little if anything about Jesus were it not for the Bible. But just like a gun, it can be misused.

How do you decide which verse to accept as Holy Scripture and which ones you do not accept.

Your specific scriptural example is demonstrably false. The important point is that you have nothing of substance that supports your position. You again go into vague claims with no substance.

You know, I had these thoughts as a child, then teenager and young man. I didn't read these from someone else, I take all the blame. They didn't come from anywhere special... riding my bike daily on my paper route, doing the chores out at the corrals, out hunting, fishing. I have felt the Holy Spirit since before I was old enough to know the name. I had never been lonely but often alone.

At 14 I was being groomed for the ministry, attending seminary classes from the Doctorates of the church, I had already read the bible straight through once. During classes I naively would question what was taught as truth and offer a different position... I was discouraged and reprimanded, at that age I didn't challenge authority. Obviously I didn't pursue the ministry, I won't preach untruths, half truths.

I just went quiet in my mid 20s, later in life my younger sister asked why I didn't believe in God anymore. I told her of my personal relationship with Christ and the Holy Spirit within and it had nothing to do with going to church, I talked for a couple hours. She told me to never write a book, if I was wrong I'd take a lot of people to hell... so I went quiet again.

Some years later again that sister asked me if I've ever read the new testament straight through. I said yes twice by 18... she said I can't believe what Paul wrote, when you read it straight through it's really bad. This from an extremely devout Christian. I asked her if she remembers our conversation years prior, she thought and said, some of it, so we had another long talk.

I'm to old to be rebuked anymore, I'm done listening to mealy mouthed christians misrepresenting Christ and his message.

I have another message.

Kent

One mechanism of the Marxists is to destroy the soul of a society. This is done in several ways including destruction of the family and religion; destruction of the core cultural elements that define common purpose and unity.

As I read the religious threads on the campfire and consider how many people have jettisoned the church and organized religion I can’t help but wander if this is the result of a concerted effort by the Marxist.

Is this a view that has been progressing since Marxists began their hard advance in this country after WWII?

Good point, but by that same notion, we would know very little about science were it not for science books. But that doesn’t negate the science itself, that doesn’t make the science books nearly as important as the science itself, not even close. And it most certainly doesn’t make the science books the ‘foundation’ of science. The science doesn’t exist ‘because of’ the science books; the science books exist ‘because of’ the science. The science is a reality no matter what, regardless of the science books. The science would ‘still’ exist even if there were no science books.

As I read the religious threads on the campfire and consider how many people have jettisoned the church and organized religion…

I have always considered myself a Christian, that's how I was raised. That's why I became a Christian. My parents determined my religion.
Had I been raised in India I would probably be a Hindu.
Had I been raised in Egypt I would probably be a Muslim.
Had I been raised in Japan I would probably be a Buddhist or a Shinto.

I do not believe that being a Christian is the only path to Heaven.
I do not believe that going to Heaven is predicated on how well versed you are in the Bible.

It is estimated that only 7% of the people who have lived on earth were or are Christians.
Do you really believe that Heaven is denied the other 93%?
I really couldn't believe that God is that inefficient.

The label you wear is less important than the life you live.

I don't get it either, how can the church decline, looking at the draw of HC and oldhat, it should be standing room only.Kent