Religious Truths Debatable

Subject: About the claims by some Christians that "the Bible is the word of God," so cherry-picking Bible scriptures gives them the right to morally condemn and oppress gays, "in the name of God."

Some Christians should study the whole history of Christianity, especially Early Christianity that eventually "created" the Bible by cherry-picking Gospels from the multitude of Gospels available at that time. The Bible was created by men, and not just handed down by God in one single completed work, like The Ten Commandments allegedly handed down to Moses. However, even The Ten Commandants are a redacted version of ancient Egyptian writings, so it's debatable whether God wrote the Ten Commandments, or if Moses wrote them himself. It's more likely Moses wrote them himself to control his immoral followers.

Back to the "creation" of the Bible, dozens of Gospels were dismissed or ordered destroyed because they didn't conform to the "story" which was being pieced together by the Early Christian hierarchy at the time. This fact alone should give pause to anyone who understands what deceit man is capable of committing on his fellow man in order to gain power. Fortunately, many of these dismissed Gospels were secretly hidden away by smaller Christian sects and discovered many centuries later. The Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in 1947 are the most famous of these hidden Gospels and they are still being deciphered today.

These smaller Christian sects were systematically silenced over time by the more powerful Christian sect at the time. And yes, murder was sometimes used to accomplish this, "in the name of God." The crime of blasphemy forced many into silence as the Early Christian Church targeted anyone who contradicted their version of sacred truth which was allegedly the word of God. How could these men tell which Gospels were the word of God and which were not? For example, the Gospel of Mary and the Gospel of Nicodemus are both very interesting. But the Early Christian hierarchy chose to dismiss these particular Gospels because they didn't conform to the "story" they were trying to piece together.

The Bible contains mostly unsubstantiated claims, does it not? Claiming the Bible is the word of God is also unsubstantiated. An educated person could look at the entire historical record that leads to the final version of the Bible and prove it was corrupted by many men throughout history. Therefore, it is now humanly impossible to separate fact from fiction in the Bible. Christians should take a closer look at what they "think" they believe, what the Catholic Church says is "true," and what "truths" were deliberately left out of the Bible long ago by men.

Of course, every religion created by man has always boiled down to a matter of "faith." You can believe the Bible is the word of God based on faith, but faith is nothing more than accepting as religious truth something you are lacking hard facts to prove. Or more likely, something you were repeatedly told as a child and accepted as religious truth. However, the religious truth you personally believe is usually determined by birthplace. Is God trying to teach us all something about religion with this simple fact, or is every religion on Earth just a product of man's inability to cope with a Universe which couldn't care less if mankind ever existed at all?

Butch66