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> > hm.... this one i CAN answer, although the first two are quite a bit harder. When the canonical order was decided, there really wasn't much sectionalism.... the church was basically the Catholic church, and that was that.
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> > erg... um.... stop asking such hard questions!!! I guess I've just taken what's in the Bible on the word of those who first decided on the canon... and on the word of god, who I believe directed them, and whom I've felt speak to me through the bible.
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> So are you Catholic? Part of what I don't get are the different "versions" (I'm sure this is the wrong term) of the Bible following the Protestant Reformation. There are some pretty major differences between, say, Catholics, Baptists and Mormons. It's not a matter of just interperating scriptures differently; they can't even seem to agree on what all is correct. Yet all three assert that they do in fact worship Christ. How does one reconcile these differences?

no... I'm not Catholic. And honestly, I don't pretend to understand a lot of the sectionalism in the church stuff. What I believe is that as long as you truly believe and accept that Jesus Christ was the son of God and that he was crucified and rose from the dead to save us and that He is the only way to heaven, the other stuff doesn't really matter. so yeah, there are differences... but everyone who believes those basic precepts IS worshipping the same God.
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> > uni"i don't think i much helped"peg
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> No, you've been plenty helpful.
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> Stephen

uni"oh, good then"peg