What you believe are not necessarily facts.. They are positions of your faith.. That isn't bad I have positions of my faith just like you do, The first is that I believe that Jesus is God, being God the whole of the Bible is His word.. Then I couple that to His promise that His words would never p*** away, even if heaven and earth do. Therefore through my faith in who Jesus is I hold that the Bible is both pure and complete.. It needs no other testament. It has the authority to point us toward the one true God, it has the power through the Holy Spirit to direct all peoples to salvation. It tells us we are saved by God's grace (Unmerited favor) through faith in Jesus. Not through grace AFTER ALL WE CAN DO.. No person has ever done all they could do. Not even Jesus.. There were still people who were blind, lame, and possessed by evil spirits in Judah as He walked among us but because of the flesh He was limited.. He did what He did in fulfillment of prophecy..Yes--and the location of that disconnect is between the facts and your mistaken inferences.
Nice try, but the facts are these: I believe BOTH of them contain inspired scripture, and I believe that what the original authors wrote in BOTH of them was inspired and doctrinally correct . I believe that TODAY'S Bible and BOM are inspired and doctrinally correct wherever they have stayed true to what the original authors intended their words to mean.
Scottie can't beam you up until you acknowledge that.
We are much less likely to do all we can do. We will watch a movie instead of study His word. We will visit with friends before to go out to spread the word of God. We sleep instead of pray. No one alive does ALL THEY CAN DO.. I don't claim that what I teach are facts. I do claim that those things I teach are BIBLICAL.. IHS jim