I have a lot of reading, researching, and thinking to do. I want to make a definite decision as to whether to believe the Bible. Again, thanks to all ( fulltimestudent , _Morpheus , Terry , Phizzy ). And Snare , it does seem that I'm at the beginning of the end of my belief in the Bible. Right now, that's depressing to me. I loved having a hope for the future, but now that hope is fading fast.
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Every intellectually honest investigator of Christianity has to go through the same stages of grief.
My big shock was in discovering there were NO ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS in the whole wide world!
Watchtower materials I had used for research had NOT prepared me for that.
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Early Christians are used as a buffet of cherry-picked quotes to jam sideways Watchtower viewpoints. No study is ever devoted
to the controversy, disagreement, opinionating, violence, and dissonances between Christian congregations and leaders.
The total isolation of Paul's Christian teaching from the fictional and mythic Jerusalem "governing body"is a scandal.