So here I go. Not on my original thought, but hopefully a good one anyways. Its late night Tuesday I'm reading my Bible looking for something (that has nothing to do with what I'm on) for Kenny and the next thing I know I'm on a quest! In the process of this quest I really realized something. Religion is flawed. The church (any organized one) has deemed itself the only entity who know what God wants. Really! There are so many early christian works that are left out of the Bible because back in the days of old, the Church voted on what would be canonized and what was unimportant. The book of Revelation got in by only one vote! My favorite book! Not to mention that the original texts were passed down and rewrote on scrolls and such, and any crocked or self serving religious leader could change things for his benefit. Who knows how much skewing went on before the set print of the King James Version came along? The Jewish Bible (Christian Old Testament), Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Church's all agree on only one thing....the first five books of the Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) Therefore those five book are probably pretty much intact. After that everything is a toss up. Martin Luther (Lutherans) did a great thing to have the Bible wrote up in German for his people, for he believe every man should be able to read the Bible for himself, but he also wanted books left out he didn't like or agree with. So one with it, I'm searching down missing texts and in that quest I come across the dead sea scrolls (which of course I've known about) , the church deemed them to be mostly daily diaries and as such unimportant and as a whole we don't know much about them. But in them are many old copies of the early books of the bible, of course they are badly damaged and some are nothing more than bits and pieces. Wouldn't you think that the church would want this info out as it predates most common texts? Or will they (the scrolls) show how much the early church has hidden from us? What was lost in the dark ages of book burning? What was lost in the great library at Alexandria?
I'm finding a lot of information on missing /omitted texts, and I hope to find some interesting stuff. I'll post what I find as I find it! But on a lighter note for us Jesus freaks, Jesus made it clear that if we seek him we will find him. God is more in our hearts than in any books or churches. If it feels wrong when it probably is. It is simple really: Do unto others as you would have done unto you! I don't want my house robbed so I don't rob other homes. I wouldn't want someone sleeping with my husband so I don't sleep with yours. etc etc. and on that note I conclude this blog. Peace!
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