What’s wrong with “cherry picking the Bible”?

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No Christian wants or needs the respect of someone that claims to be a Christian while denying the inerrancy of scripture.

@josephw said
No Christian wants or needs the respect of someone that claims to be a Christian while denying the inerrancy of scripture.

When doctrine is by what we think over what the scriptures say, why bother with the scripture at all, it no longer matters to them.

@josephw said
No Christian wants or needs the respect of someone that claims to be a Christian while denying the inerrancy of scripture.

And misrepresenting Jesus Christ and constantly trashing His Name to boot.

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It doesn't matter if the Bible is complete because not all inspired books were found or even accepted; if what we have is the Word of God, it is just that. If there is more out there, and there are more books mentioned in scripture that we don't have, that doesn't detract from what is collected. If anything is left off and still out there, it will line up with what is here; since God is sovereign and not a God of confusion, I'm not overly concerned about what other books didn't make into the Bible through history, what we have, we have.

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Couldn't you let God handle that?

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I'm sure you [any number of things] and nobody cares about your respect.

I have this bad feeling you might somehow be doing Christianity the wrong way.

J/K -- It's clear that you are.

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It is not surprising when you reject the Word and twist what is there to make it say what you want; nothing anyone else can say will be accepted by you either. Where you are in life, it seems is, you are your truth monitor; only what you think is true, it is true, only by agreeing with you can something be true. If reasoning is shared with you, it is 'woolly thinking, faith speech, gobbly gook or other such verbiage.

The scripture isn't a plumb line for righteousness for you; your imagination is.