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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
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To: seanmbrook{at}aol.com [mailto:seanmbrook{at}aol.com]

> > I
> > don't trust anything now.  If people will so blatantly distort what is
> > clearly spelled out in the Bible, what will they NOT distort?
> > >
>  Absolute agreement!  Hostile and malignant people will
>  distort anything.  The bigger the lie the better.

And it is very, very subtle.

Very few people would be familiar enough with scripture to catch many of
these glib errors.
>
> > VH> Yes, indeed -- it's no wonder so many people have so many
> weird ideas
> > about
> > Christianity.
>
>  Yep!  Reminds me of how I told various Prots and
>  Muslims in the online chat rooms that the best way
>  to find out what the Catholic Church believes is to
>  look up books like Fr. John Hardon's THE CATHOLIC
>  CATECHISM or the CCC.  Or official declarations like
>  HUMANAE VITAE.  I doubt most of them paid any
>  attention!

That's too hard.  People usually want to be spoon-fed.

It's also easier to argue aganist excerpts than to read and understand in
context -- and then find holes.
> >
> > SMB> True!  But it would have been nice if we had the
> > > minutes of these discussions. 
> >
> > VH> Or the Resurrection on video tape.
> > >
>  Indeed!  But then we would get the disbelievers and the
>  nutters claiming the tape was falsified!

Yes -- but at least we would have answers to a lot of questions.  For
example, what did Christ look like?
> >
> > VH> It has indeed been tampered with!  The King James Version
> is a case in
> > point.
> > >
>  Well, I had more in mind the surviving ancient mss.
>  and fragments of the Bible. And, of how scholars like
>  Bruce Metzger (a Prot!) have pointed out that no
>  major doctrine of Christian faith depends on any
>  textually dubious text.

Well, no CATHOLIC doctrine. :-)
>
>  In fact, honest scholars of opposing views have
>  testified that the Bible was transmitted far more
>  accurately at a far earlier time than any other
>  ancient works.
>
>  Btw, how was the KJV translation a dishonest rendering
>  of the biblical mss.?

For one thing, it rejects the established Canon.  And it does it for
political reasons.
>
>  Maybe It's time I reread James White's THE KING JAMES
>  ONLY CONTROVERSY.
>
Read the part in Revelation about the Rapture.
>


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