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- History - you are so right.
I once listened to a history course taught at Columbia University. He described historians as artists. They look at the information available from ancient documents (most of them written hundreds of years after the fact) and archeology and then paint their picture of what happened according to their own biases.
History is fact. What happened, happened. The interpretation of history is not even generally fact. - Columbus Day. While Columbus did not discover this continent, his work did, in fact, lead to the European migration to it. The word "discover" is a matter of semantics.
- Churches. I totally agree that not all organizations that claim to be a church are what Jesus intended church to be. I would go so far to say that MOST so-called churches are not only corrupted, but false churches. That being said, Jesus said I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I believe he has kept his word and that it is not through some invisible body of believers that the Bible nowhere speaks of. Both Protestants and Catholics believe the church is a universal one world kind of church. The Catholic version is a visible one headed by Rome, the Protestant version is an invisible on with no real head (not even Jesus really - every man gets to do what is right in his own eyes). The Biblical church is always a local assembly of baptized believers who have united for a common purpose (to observe all things whatsoever Christ commanded.)
Just my two cents worth.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Nice! @mackmck that is amazing perspective! I appreciate your input and respect your experience!