Interpreting the Bible
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nope, but i know two and i hassle em. couldnt talk about it anyways cause its a society of secrets right? most of it can be found online tho. handshakes, jibberjabber, etc....bal-tu-cain.
its not that hard to become a freemason my friend is one and has been bugging me to go through the process to become one i just dont have enough time to be a part of that org.
Something that I find common among self proclaimed "fundamentalist" Christians who try to interpet the bible literally is a fairly large lack of knowledge about the book itself.
By this I do not mean it's current content but rather it's history. For example very few acknoweldge that the old testament is based mainly on the Torah and that the new testament came into being after a man named Marcian started to compile the letters of Luke, Peter, and Paul in the second century and also to edit out parts of the Torah he did not like, not until over a century later was the "Bible" actually written and even thewn there were several forms. Towards the end of the 300s the bible was finally compiled in an almost recognisable form except it was at least twice as long as it is now. Since then several chapters and even whole books called the apocrypha have been declared heretical and banned, in some case, destroyed (along with anyone who argued). This tends to make me doubt the literal interpetations.
By this I do not mean it's current content but rather it's history. For example very few acknoweldge that the old testament is based mainly on the Torah and that the new testament came into being after a man named Marcian started to compile the letters of Luke, Peter, and Paul in the second century and also to edit out parts of the Torah he did not like, not until over a century later was the "Bible" actually written and even thewn there were several forms. Towards the end of the 300s the bible was finally compiled in an almost recognisable form except it was at least twice as long as it is now. Since then several chapters and even whole books called the apocrypha have been declared heretical and banned, in some case, destroyed (along with anyone who argued). This tends to make me doubt the literal interpetations.
people have there faiths on different levels, but at some point through history, different parts of the bible have definately been preached as true, but unfortunately to usually benefit the hierarchy as apposed to the people. basically to better themselves
