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Originally Posted by Abiding Now
And I sure couldn't care less what the catholic church thinks about ANYTHING.
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Interesting. They are who decided what your bible would look like, more or less, with revisions through the years.
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Originally Posted by Abiding Now
Admitted, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but you're correct about one thing, my faith tells me Jesus was right when He said in Matthew 16:18 that the gates of hell would NOT prevail against His church, so me being a literalist, I just take it as an absolute.
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You are therefore a true believer. Doesn't much matter that no one named "Matthew" actually wrote the gospel of Matthew, but matters only that someone
said this is what Matthew said, and all that about 90 or 100 years after Jesus. Enjoy your belief.