The Bible solves nothing. All Bible centered religions of varying doctrinal flavors can quote some parts of the Bible to argue their preferred doctrinal priorities. There are 198 million worshipping members of Christian faiths in America. Protestant churches have 141 million members, Roman Catholicism has 51 million members while the Eastern Orthodox Church has 6 million members, all of whom claim the authority of the Bible as their reason for being. The top 100 churches in membership range from 16 million members to 34,500 members. The total number of all churches must number into the hundreds. This does not include the non- Christian worshipping faiths, Jewish and Muslim, who claim just parts of the Bible.
Each church
has its own history, doctrinal distinctives, biblical theologies and
educational institutions. Keeping the
faith is for each more than just keeping the faith. The diversity is mindboggling. Most of us who were born into a particular church,
live our lives just accepting the fodder or rejecting the premise of spirituality
all together. The game has become to
convert the supposed heathen faster than the regular listeners run for the
hills. Some say that the Church is
losing at this game.
Why does it
have to be so complicated and competitive?
G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca
