Me too

I think that wanting to save others is a symptom that one is still in the cult mindset.

L. Ron Hubbard wrote that “walking away from it all” and starting over would make a truly free man. That’s the opportunity we have.

Check your email. I sent you something.

Thanks for the link I will def check out!

It only took 150 years for the Catholics to finally produce one for their flock. They didn’t want their parishoners to have the bible. That was for the priests to read & interpret, and they didn’t want the common folk to have it.

With a protestant interepretation Kid!

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Not bashing them at all just saying Church of England needed their own Bible seeing as how Henry VIII and Elizabeth were scourges of Catholicism at that time

It’s called the King James Version because he put the money up for the bible to be translated into English.

As far as the bible goes, knowing those languages won’t necessarily help you out, because of the way they were copied.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misquoting_Jesus

Google Bart D. Ehrman, and you’ll get a whole bunch of his writing. There are a lot of people, especially the ones who want to protect the dogma, who don’t like him.

Also, I really regret not learning Latin, Greek, and German. If I known these languages I would have found books written in them, so that I can read exactly what was written and the intended language. Once something gets revised or reinterpreted, there is too much a chance for the interpreter to add or remove certain phrases or words, leading eventually to schisms that are essentially man made.

The very title, King James Version, to me is so self rightous it isn’t even funny. I know the Church of England had to make up their own Bible and this is it, but there is something just plain wrong about someone who believes they were picked by God to rule over people and savages alike, to make his own interpretation of a then 1600 year old book. Like I said I am really a purist when it comes to spiritual texts. I don’t like reinterpretation. A spiritual or scriptural writings needs to just be left the way it was intended to be, NOT revised to meet modern day thinking. If then those scriptures are sooooo out of date and obsolete with out a revision, then maybe they are not worthy to be read or understood, much less taken as the direct word of God. Take for example the “banned books” of the Bible, some of them were actually written in the time of Christ, IMO they should have been included, but Nicaea censored a lot of them (some because they didn’t reflect what the RCC had become at this point)