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Can't they just hash out their disagreements and come to a conclusion on what the truth is?

Complete_Idi0t posted...

Can't they just hash out their disagreements and come to a conclusion on what the truth is?

Obviously not
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5 different ways of bastardizing the words of jesus
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They all know what the truth is, they disagree on how to respect said truth
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Oh shit, I just responded seriously to a Complete_Idi0t topic
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Nope. Men are naturally against one another. I was raised Pentacostal but I have stepped away from that denomination crap.
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5? That's as far as you got? Baptist, Methodist, Pentacostal, Nazarenes, Church of God (Anderson), Church of God (Cleveland), Lutherans, Anglican, Missionary Baptist, Southern Baptist (they were the pro-slavery one), etc. If you start counting the Catholic side, it more than doubles.

I apologize for the snark at the beginning of that.

That said, it usually boils down to disagreements that are too powerful to overcome. Calvinist vs Weslyean. Tounges or not. Baptism as part of Salvation or outshowing there of. As was said above me, most denominations agree that Jesus is both the example of Truth and Righteousness, and the pathway to Heaven. The disagreement stems from the human fallibility in interpreting scripture.
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So why didnt God make scripture that didnt need to be interpreted

ToonLinkWithGun posted...

Nope. Men are naturally against one another. I was raised Pentacostal but I have stepped away from that denomination crap.

Yea I was raised in a Pentecostal like family.

But some of us strayed away to being backwoods Baptist or Methodist.

Though I'm more or less a Deist now.
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Complete_Idi0t posted...

So why didnt God make scripture that didnt need to be interpreted

Because God didn't write the scriptures, people did.
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Complete_Idi0t posted...

So why didnt God make scripture that didnt need to be interpreted

Because even if God made it as easy to understand as 1+1=2, people would still find a way to disagree.
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How do you propose that would go. What language would it be written in? What language could it be written in? Which one never cause confusion in written form? Which language has never had difficulty when divorced from non-verbal cues? I can not think of any (except maybe Esperanto, but I discount that as it is too recent for this topic).

Then you come to the second language barrier. Do you declare the scripture to only be the scripture when in its original languange? The Koran (Quran, Q'uran,? My knowledge of the spelling of Islam's holy text is falling at the moment.) has not had much luck with that. Every language has difficulty being translated into other languages.

The only clear and efficient options involve removing free will (which comes to the first real division in the Church) or verbal communications from the Eternal (which removes on of the traits that has always made the Eternal stand apart from the vast majority of other deities).

Also, the Eternal has chosen not to do what you suggested. I don't have any clue as to why, as much as I wish it were otherwise.
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The inly meaningful distinctions are between Protestants, Catholics and Eastern Orthodox.

Methodists and Baptists, for example, I honestly can't tell you the difference between. Probably something dumb like sprinkling vs submerging.
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DevsBro posted...

The inly meaningful distinctions are between Protestants, Catholics and Eastern Orthodox.

Methodists and Baptists, for example, I honestly can't tell you the difference between. Probably something dumb like sprinkling vs submerging.

jehovahs witnesses and mormons and some others are probably pretty different
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Because God didn't write the scriptures, people did.

It's more accurate to say that God used people to write the scripture, in much the same way that some illiterate people have written books by telling someone else what to write down.
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DevsBro posted...

The inly meaningful distinctions are between Protestants, Catholics and Eastern Orthodox.

Methodists and Baptists, for example, I honestly can't tell you the difference between. Probably something dumb like sprinkling vs submerging.

That's complete nonsense. There is much more variation between Protestants than there are between Catholics and Eastern Orthodox. "High-church" Anglicans, for example, are much closer to Catholics than they are to Pentecostals.
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Methodist are a Weslyean tradition. Baptists are a Calvinist tradition. This is possibly the biggest divergence in Evangelical churches today. Or in the last couple of centuries. Literally grouping more then 500 years of thelogicaly driven debate and doctrine into one category, regardly of how wildly disparate they may actually be; strike me as incredibly lax, if not willfully ignorant. A few minutes on Wikipedia will give a broad enough grounding to understand the major divisions and the why behind them. Please do that .
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jehovahs witnesses and mormons and some others are probably pretty different

Well now we're getting touchy...
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Only five? Try like fifty.
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DevsBro posted...

jehovahs witnesses and mormons and some others are probably pretty different

Well now we're getting touchy...

I fail to see any indicators of agitation in his post. He is also accurate. Mormons especially are wildly divergent. They not only require a second text over the Christian scriptures, they also require complete mastery of it before you are allowed to study the Christian scripture. Jehovah's Witnesses are closer, but still pretty out there. As, in my opinion, are any denominations that require a single translation as holy. KJV onliests are a bane on my faith.
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ThyCorndog posted...

DevsBro posted...

The inly meaningful distinctions are between Protestants, Catholics and Eastern Orthodox.

Methodists and Baptists, for example, I honestly can't tell you the difference between. Probably something dumb like sprinkling vs submerging.

jehovahs witnesses and mormons and some others are probably pretty different

The Mormons say that baptism doesn't count unless it's done by a ordained priest from their church.

They told me that it's like how the fire department can't write you a speeding ticket like the police can even though they both serve the public.
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DevsBro posted...

Because God didn't write the scriptures, people did.

It's more accurate to say that God used people to write the scripture, in much the same way that some illiterate people have written books by telling someone else what to write down.

Then your post goes directly against the person whom I originally quoted then because it shows God that he's very inept when it comes to communication then. Why would he use one of the ways in which people can easily misinterpret what he says? Why couldn't he use a better way? I mean this is supposedly an all knowing and all powerful deity after all.
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Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, and some tiny irrelevant ones.

However there is like over 1000 sects in the US alone.

I think even Luther said his actions might cause the religion to split into countless others.
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