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<blockquote data-quote="Earthmasque" data-source="post: 86458" data-attributes="member: 4383"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Hardly. All of the above are perfectly legitimate concerns for a cult trying to encompass all their beliefs in one book.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">True of every book in the New Testament.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 179, 0)"></span></p><p> <span style="color: rgb(89, 179, 0)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 179, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Again, perfectly legitimate. Many books under consideration had no providence - some had been written within a hundred years of the time of the Council of Nicea.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 179, 0)"> </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 179, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 179, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">There are bad people, yes.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 179, 0)"> </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 179, 0)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 179, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Organized religion is both good <em>and</em> bad. Like pretty much everything else.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 179, 0)"> </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 179, 0)"><span style="color: #ffffff">An example:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 179, 0)"> </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 179, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><u>The Good</u>: If not for Nicea, the texts in question would have continued undergoing revision after revision by localized cults, which was what had happened and was partially the impetus for Nicea in the first place.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 179, 0)"> </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 179, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><u>The Bad</u>: Because these texts are frozen in time now, all that you said about constraints the Bible places on the individual are true. Prior to Nicea, a group could decide what to believe, form their own church and write up a few of their own "sacred texts."</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Earthmasque, post: 86458, member: 4383"] [SIZE=4][COLOR=rgb(255, 255, 255)]Hardly. All of the above are perfectly legitimate concerns for a cult trying to encompass all their beliefs in one book.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][/SIZE] [COLOR=rgb(255, 255, 255)]True of every book in the New Testament.[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(89, 179, 0)][SIZE=4][/SIZE] [COLOR=rgb(255, 255, 255)]Again, perfectly legitimate. Many books under consideration had no providence - some had been written within a hundred years of the time of the Council of Nicea.[/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(89, 179, 0)] [SIZE=4][COLOR=rgb(89, 179, 0)][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(255, 255, 255)]There are bad people, yes.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(89, 179, 0)] [SIZE=4][COLOR=rgb(89, 179, 0)][/COLOR][/SIZE] [COLOR=rgb(255, 255, 255)]Organized religion is both good [I]and[/I] bad. Like pretty much everything else.[/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(89, 179, 0)] [COLOR=#ffffff]An example:[/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(89, 179, 0)] [COLOR=rgb(255, 255, 255)][U]The Good[/U]: If not for Nicea, the texts in question would have continued undergoing revision after revision by localized cults, which was what had happened and was partially the impetus for Nicea in the first place.[/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(89, 179, 0)] [COLOR=rgb(255, 255, 255)][U]The Bad[/U]: Because these texts are frozen in time now, all that you said about constraints the Bible places on the individual are true. Prior to Nicea, a group could decide what to believe, form their own church and write up a few of their own "sacred texts."[/COLOR][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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