Protestantism

» Migisi - Point of Perspective

In response to Point of Perspective posted by BrianTubbs:
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There are DEGREES of credibility that we can assign to the books of the Bible and also to the apocraphal books and the Gnostic writings and so on.
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As I see it, the primary issue is - which writings support the tenet of a ~particular~ faith system (i.e. Catholics find the Apocrypha / Deuterocanonicals credible, but Protestants don't).
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IMO, an equally important issue - the credibility of the church authority who determined a writing's degree of credibility.
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But to proclaim that ANY ancient religious literature - written by men - is the wholly inspired, literal, and infallible word of an ancient god, and it's the 'absolute truth'? That's way outside the bounds of logic and rational thought, IMO.

-- posted by Migisi