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This seems like grandstanding , making a smoke screen or something tricky -like you want us the believe you’re an independent thinker and not blindly following wierwille. This thread is about the NT canon and not about you…sooooooo Why don’t YOU start a thread and talk about SPECIFIC doctrine/teachings of wierwille that YOU disagree with and why. There must be some things you can easily name without having to do years of prep to compile all your notes. I don’t mean to be persnickety about this - but all too often you drag your feet when challenged to give a specific answer. To be honest I have a hard time believing you made anything your own when you whine about how you’ll have to scour GSC for your old posts and thesis or there’s problems with lost files due to bandwidth issues. Uh uh…not buying it ! If you really made something your own you should be able to whip out those salient points right off the top of your head. I want some details on what, where and why YOU DARE to DISAGREE with wierwille…or is this just all talk? Just some more Mike baloney. Mike start a thread Mike start a thread Mike start a thread sew what the sewer went out to sew a thread a stitch in time manifests nine Patches I’m depending on you son

Since the great majority of the over 41,000 ‘Christian’ denominations declare the resurrection of Jesus Christ, I will risk 'resurrecting' this dormant thread. One of the great reasons there are so many gospels(or denominations as many people call them) is that very few people are willing to put up with God as He reveals Himself in the Bible, so they form Him to suit their desires. This involves adding to, subtracting from, changing, or just misunderstanding, the scriptures. It is interesting that ‘faith vs superstition’ is under discussion here, because the reason I first ‘made a ripple’ here was to post a link on a thread about Acts 17 To the unknown God. Coincidentally(yeah right), Paul begins his discourse to the Athenians with superstition(v. 22), and ends with faith(v. 31). Superstition is how man makes the gods he wants, and faith is what God gives a man to allow or cause him to believe in the resurrection. The Bible also says(Rom. 10:17) that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. A person may hear enough to have faith, but deviations in doctrines after the basic faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ are abundant, mostly because few people are happy with God as He describes Himself, so they change Him into something else. There are also obviously some who spend time, perhaps a lifetime, in church(es) without ever being sure of the resurrection, because that's what those around them are doing. The really good news(which is rarely preached or believed) is that Jesus Christ has been tasked with reconciling all of creation unto himself, and thereby to God. He always does the Father’s will, so we can rest assured he will not leave us hanging. In the grand scheme of things therefore, no matter what ‘flavor’ of Christianity we end up with(or without), God’s loving arms are long enough and strong enough to catch us and hold us close.