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Originally Posted by driveway
When Christians can all agree on how their faith is to be practiced, I'll sit down and listen.
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I'd personally get very, very leery if I was told that all Christians now all believe exactly the same thing, and it's all good, and it's perfect, and we can now go on with our lives knowing that we now know the absolute truth of life.
Admit it, you probably would too. You probably wouldn't sit down and now be open to it. It's one thing to be a skeptic, but being a skeptic in that kind of environment wouldn't be feasible.
I think it's a positive that there are so many different ways to try to experience and express being Christian - far less restrictive than an all-knowing superchurch. That's what we had in the Middle Ages, and it caused so many problems that the fix was protestantism.
Christians may not be perfect people, but then who is? Just because they aren't perfect, doesn't make them wrong because they argue. You could say the exact same thing about nearly every group of humans on the planet, from schools, businesses, scientists, or aid workers. It neither validates, nor invalidates their claims.