I'd like to pose a counter-question to a question that was posed earlier. Do you have to read a Bible to be a good Christian? I say, "no". As I said to the last questioner, Christianity and the Church came BEFORE the Bible. The first Christians listened to teachers and preachers, and, if they were lucky, the Apostles. The Bible was not necessary for the first Christians to be "good" Christians.
Even centuries later, after the Bible was canonized in the 4th century, it was not available to the average Christian for centuries afterward until the printing press was invented. Are the Christians who lived all those centuries unsaved because they had no Bible? Of course not!
The Bible is the Word of God, and its great to have and to read. But if every Bible magically disappeared from the face of the earth today, the Faith and the Church would go on. That is why Christ established a CHURCH, not a Bible.
Comments anyone?
2007-09-05
04:54:02
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