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Originally Posted by dknv
Isn't this typical? THE CHURCH (specifically the Catholic Church, headed by THE POPE - the Vicar of Christ on Earth - THE ONE AND ONLY representative of the Word of our Lord God) - changed the rules again. No offense to those of the Catholic persuasion. But can someone explain to me why decisions to change the rules like this are ok?
When I read the first page of this thread, my immediate thought was Jesus' quote, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone'. (Posts 2, 3 and 4 were joking around.) WWJD?
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Actually, the way the Catholic church changes the rules occasionally is to me the reason why of all the Christian persuasions, the Catholics do it best.
Sure, it took them centuries, but they finally pardoned Galileo for teaching the sun was the center of the solar system. They also have stepped back from saying the earth was literally created in 6 days and now say the Bible's story is metaphor for the billions of years it's taken since the Big Bang for the earth to exist as we see it, though they don't comment on the incorrect order of creation in the Bible. So they do bend to modern sensibilities... well they're only 400 years behind the times.
But at least the Catholics are willing to recognize the Bible is outdated, at least scientifically, and are willing to slowly make concessions to the fact. Which makes plenty of sense to me, since IMO none of the errors in the Bible detract from the Bible's message. If all churches accepted the Bible as the writings of religious scholars instead of god himself, the Bible would be a much more useful tool. But it'll probably take the Catholic church another 2000 years before admitting that... and the chance of the church still being around 2000 years from now is pretty slim since the world seems to be going either atheist or Islam.