You are correct Amos and each faith has their own version but it is all pretty much consistent on a personal level. That is where the leaders all start to corrupt, they will interpret for you .. toss in their opinions .. then it all goes down the tubes into some evil abyss.

I confront these guys with the bible they profess to understand and it is amazing how the topic changes back to gay bashing or something else .. Then I quote the least of my brethren and then subject is changed again .. That is what a professed leader does to it.

In centuries past, the Catholic church outlawed bible ownership to anyone but the priest. Why, exact reason, they would lose power had people been able to read the message themselves and question why the church acted like it did at that time frame since it was a political organization controlling all land and wealth