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I'm not alone! 4 songs is my golden number as well!

Congregations, and these are the scrolls that we have at our disposal, which were written before Constantine was even born. And how I can discern between Devine Word from fairy tale...well, one, not all of the writers were herders, some were Kings, others Judges, tax collectors, fishermen, priest, physician, etc. but yes, while some had had amazing education, others had not, yet, despite that and the fact that many of these books were written years, decades, centuries apart, they all maintained in harmony the same theme and purpose, nothing contradicts at any given point, and that is how I know it's not fairy tales, but rather that the Scriptures were divinely inspired by God. How else would it be possible for them scriptures to be in harmony with one another? I think I answered the questions you'd asked me...though I feel like I left some unanswered..I apologize if I did

Ran out of room as well...there's more I wish to add, but I want to answer that first opinion you wanted of me. First, translating a concept from one language to another doesn't mean every word being strictly translated, since no language is structured the same, something said in English, for example, can have a totally different meaning translated word by word to Spanish. It doesn't matter how you structure the words from one language to another, what truly matters is translating the concept, that must stay the same. Now, none of those original scriptures Are known to exist, BUT, Before and after the Babylonian exile, with the growth of Jewish Communities the demand for Scriptures increased, thus professional copyiests made extraordinary efforts in that the accuracy was attained in their hand written manuscripts, and Ezra was one of them. Later, followers of Christ also labored in completing the same task of reproducing the Holy Scriptures of the growing number of Christian

Im actually very much impressed and to answer your question, I'll further on give more detail to the senario so I can answer it as honestly as I can. Had I'd been raised as a Jew in the time that Jesus was being indentified as the Messaiah, I probably would have scoffed at the possibility of such idea, however, that would have been before having heard him teach, witness him making miracles, and most importantly, before rereading all of the prophecies that are all over the Hebrew scriptures that foretold of the Messiah and how he would be able to be identified! Now, of course, none of us can really go on based on the first two, it's impossible, but like then, the last one is totally within our reach. But going back to your question, yes, I most likely would have been reading other religious text, would I have accepted Christianity as my lifestyle and ideology? Honestly, I don't know, it would all depend how strong my love and faith for God were, on the kind of person I were.

Im going to base my comment on the high hopes that you have biblical knowledge. I don't want to sound like a butt, but God's view on homosexuality is clear in 1 Corinthians 6:9,10, which is in the New Testament ;) BUT YOU'RE RIGHT! Who the heck do we are to think we can judge other's way of life? That right belongs to God, and God only. However, many of us don't hate homosexuals, in fact we might get along with them pretty well in school or work, we simply don't agree with their lifestyle, in accordance to God's view. And the Old and New Testament compliment each other, because even though the Mosaic Law was directed to the nation of Israel and Christians don't abide to it, it allows us to better understand God's views on many things because how could he go from completely detesting a lifestyle to being okay with it? Doesn't add up to what Malachi 3:6 or Hebrews 6:17,18 say

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