Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: gt1104c@prism.gatech.edu (SILVERT,STANLEY DAVID JR) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Doctrine vs. the Bible Message-ID: Date: 8 Nov 90 03:25:32 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 32 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article ASC105@psuvm.psu.edu writes: > > This is the reason that the lives of the Christians will lack signs, >wonders, and miracles. The bible says that signs, wonders and miracles >will follow up WHEN the Word of God is preached... NOT church or >denominational doctrine. See the last chapter of Mark. If you look at the footnote that most bibles include before the 9th verse of the last chapter (16) of Mark you will see that most early manuscripts stop at verse 8. Therefore, your statement about wonders and miracles is questionalble at best because the verses you refer to probably should not be there. > It seems like too many people are trying to make the Bible fit the >into the natural world. It should be the other way around. Miracles >don't happen as a result of discrediting the bible. This is true, but discrediting the Bible is not my goal. Understanding it is. To show you how understanding the Bible better can keep us out of trouble I go back to Mark 16:9-20 where it says that believers will pick up snakes with their hands and drink deadly poison without being hurt. From the understanding that these verses probably don't belong in the Bible we can conclude that drinking poison is not such a good idea no matter how strong our faith is. Unfortunately, a lack of scriptural knowlege of this particular passage has led directly to the deaths of persons attending snake-handling churches in the mountains of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. -- Stan Silvert Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!gt1104c ARPA: gt1104c@prism.gatech.edu