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Thread #129172   Message #2901338
Posted By: frogprince
06-May-10 - 12:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Religious beliefs - no standing in law
Subject: RE: BS: Religious beliefs - no standing in law
""If you say you are a Christian, than believe it..all of it. Picking and choosing, what selections you agree with,   is more ignorant, than anything you'd like to heap on those who do!!!""
You say you aren't a fundamentalist, but that is a fundamentalist statement through and through. Realistically, it can only mean that any true Christian has to believe every word of the Bible.

What chance is there that any single person here has not, on more than one occasion, found comfort and guidance in some published material outside the Bible. That could be anything from a "self help" book to a work of fiction that inspired you to see things in a more positive way. But no one tells you to either accept every word of that material or discard it all completely.

There are countless liberal Christians who find the Bible to be a rich source of strengh, guidance, and inspiration, but who realize that it is an accumulation of writings by fallible people, sometimes steeped in cultural values we could no longer dream of accepting, trying to sort out their relationship to God. There is nothing authoritative about the Bible.