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Originally Posted by mykalberta
The Chuch has nothing to do with the Bible - they are in my view completely different. Church today is no more than a perverse social club that uses the bible as the drug to get people to attend on Suday mornings.
The path of the Bible is not a Sunday 9am-11am tea party so I can get home and watch football event. It is a 24/7 365 day commitment to bettering youself and hopefully a few people around you...
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I'm going to leave arguments of the afterlife out of this.
But I still cannot see how you can completely divorce the Bible from the Church, especially when it is the Church that was its author. Historically, the Bible always functioned in subordination to the Church, and never really served as a "moral compass". It was always considered more as testimony to the efficacy of the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, and to the new covenant that God established through his sacrifice.
Scripture bore witness to the truth, but as far as morals and ethics and good conduct were concerned, these were always determined within the Church hierarchy, and disseminated through the Church's reading (and writing!) of the Scriptures.
You seem pretty jaded about "church", and if I shared your opinion regarding its corruption, I could not in good conscience make the decision to take my family every Sunday morning. Fortunately, my church functions NOTHING like what you described in caricature.