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Originally Posted by donb9006
Whom has their "mind made up"? I'm just telling you what "I" have found in my studies. I wondered for years..."what am I missing? Why does everyone else believe?" I've found through MY study that I'm missing nothing. Truth always rises to the top? Really? Where? The world is full of lies. Institutional lies go on forever...
No, I've dismissed "scholorship" done by those with "skin in the game". I've looked to those outside the religion for other answers. More honest answers.
Most scholors say the people named as the writers of the books...Mark, John, Mathew, etc. were NOT the ones who actually wrote them. Though your "Christian bible scholor" won't admit it.
I have QUESTIONS not answers. I'm just stating what isn't true about what you are saying. You people have all the answers, you peoplea are SURE about what you believe. My question is why? There's nothing to bac it up except things written WELL after the fact by people with an interest in promoting what THEY say.
I'm trying...I'm trying.
Actually, "fools" have no opinion of their own and rely on others to tell them what to think...
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I see what your problem is. You are going to people outside of the religion who will answer what you wish to hear. You're saying yourself they are "more honest?" Based on what criteria?
If you're going to go to Africa and have never been there before, do you get your information from people who have never left their home town, or do you seek those who have traveled abroad and more importantly been to Africa?
You're getting bad information. Matthew wrote the book of Matthew. Mark wrote the book of Mark most likely with Peter's help. Luke wrote Luke and John wrote John...and most scholars DO believe that.
John also wrote 1,2,3 John and Revelation. The letters written by Paul were sent to churches and addressed to them as letters.
Have you even read this book? I mean, really read it?
The best person to go to for answers is the one whom you are avoiding. God said himself in His Book that those who truly seek me will find me. We did that. That's why we are so convinced that He is real and His book is much more than a book written with the hand of man.