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    1. Josh Jordan‏Verified account @NumbersMuncher Mar 15
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      I can't agree with that simply because since the Bible was composed/compiled ~1,500 years ago we have learned so much about the history behind it. That doesn't mean you throw it away, but that you learn from the teachings within it and understand that it's not literal history.

      4 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
    2. Josh Jordan‏Verified account @NumbersMuncher Mar 15
      Replying to @NumbersMuncher @baseballcrank

      I think there's more power to the teachings of Jesus when you focus on the lessons he taught and treat everyone with kindness, forgiveness, and love. To me fundamentalism is trying to view everything through the lens of a literal Bible, which is just not a tenable position to me

      15 replies 1 retweet 20 likes
    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Mar 15
      Replying to @NumbersMuncher

      If you're asking the Church to walk away from the words of Christ in the Gospels and the letters of Paul, you're asking it to walk away from its very reason for existing.

      8 replies 15 retweets 183 likes
    4. Josh Jordan‏Verified account @NumbersMuncher Mar 15
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      The thing is that Paul was a man just like everyone else who was trying to push his narrative on how a church should be founded. Again, that doesn't mean that there's no value in his writings, but Paul was writing his own worldview as a man - not as God.

      23 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
    5. Sean T at RCP‏Verified account @SeanTrende Mar 15
      Replying to @NumbersMuncher @baseballcrank

      I sort of nodded along like different strokes for different folks until this one, which is where things really start to go off the rails.

      2 replies 0 retweets 43 likes
    6. Sean T at RCP‏Verified account @SeanTrende Mar 15
      Replying to @SeanTrende @NumbersMuncher @baseballcrank

      (unless you're just interpreting Christianity as a philosophy like stoicism except it claims a God, in which case fine, but I'm not sure any Christian denomination embraces this (except maybe Episcopalians?))

      2 replies 1 retweet 30 likes
    7. Josh Jordan‏Verified account @NumbersMuncher Mar 15
      Replying to @SeanTrende @baseballcrank

      I don't know of any Christian churches that teach the gospels were written by anonymous authors long after Jesus died, but that's the history of it. I've never claimed to speak for any church's beliefs - I'm simply saying that historically isn't not what I was taught growing up.

      11 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Mar 15
      Replying to @NumbersMuncher @SeanTrende

      Wait, what? The historiography of the authorship of the Gospels is a subject of extensive scholarship taken seriously in Catholicism. I last attended a lecture on the topic last week, given by my wife, who has an advanced theology degree and teaches Scripture courses.

      2 replies 2 retweets 53 likes
    9. Josh Jordan‏Verified account @NumbersMuncher Mar 15
      Replying to @baseballcrank @SeanTrende

      I have yet to hear a major religion state that the four Gospels were written by anonymous authors long after Jesus' death except for those who are willing to dig into them on their own. I can only speak to the two religions I grew up in and went through, but (1/2)

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    10. Josh Jordan‏Verified account @NumbersMuncher Mar 15
      Replying to @NumbersMuncher @baseballcrank @SeanTrende

      Those are typically subjects that are not spoken of in church, but when people are interested there are outlets for it. Perhaps Catholics teach that, but I have never seen that talked about before with regards to it being a mainstream thing that they teach all members.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Mar 15
      Replying to @NumbersMuncher @SeanTrende

      I have absolutely heard homilies discuss not only the differing accounts & emphases of the Gospels, but when & why they were authored.

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        2. Josh Jordan‏Verified account @NumbersMuncher Mar 15
          Replying to @baseballcrank @SeanTrende

          That has not been my experience growing up through the two different churches and as I've studied this stuff (I find the history behind it fascinating) I have rarely come across anyone who says they were taught it growing up. I'm glad that you've seen it talked about openly.

          3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Joel Whitley‏ @SYSPlayer Mar 15
          Replying to @NumbersMuncher @baseballcrank @SeanTrende

          It may have been discussed openly; rarely is it ever discussed honestly.

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        2. Matt‏ @JetsMaineMan Mar 15
          Replying to @baseballcrank @NumbersMuncher @SeanTrende

          I don't think Josh's point was very controversial tbh. There's a lot of reporting on millennials leaving religion and it's not crazy to think maybe the church is too rigid and outdated. The majority of catholics believe in gay marriage. 2/3 don't believe in transubstantiation.

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        3. Jack Burden‏ @wahoolaw2006 Mar 15
          Replying to @JetsMaineMan @baseballcrank and

          Even the people who say they believe in transubstantiation don't really believe in transubstantiation

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        1. Jack Burden‏ @wahoolaw2006 Mar 15
          Replying to @baseballcrank @NumbersMuncher @SeanTrende

          Josh is talking about churches that don't give "homilies" I grew up in a Methodist church in the Bible Belt, and neither authorship of the Bible not canonization were ever discussed or taught - first exposure was in college - and I went to church every time the doors were open

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