Witness?

Thought of another thing that makes me question the one way only to God. Beliefs. Or to elaborate, beliefs that one is willing to die for. Why should I think Christianity has the absolute only one way to God thing tied up when there are others willing to die for their beliefs? Muslims. In the past – Jews and Mormons. Just to name some obvious ones.

To put it another way – just because someone believes something and is willing to witness for it, even willing to die for it, doesn’t necessarily make it true. Muslims believe that Allah is the only true god and Mohammed is his prophet. They are more than willing to die for that. There’s about a billion witnesses currently on the globe that say that Islam is the only truth. But does that make it correct? Or at a simpler level, everyone in Texas “knows” that it is illegal to pick our state flower, the bluebonnet. We “know” it. It has to be true. Only problem is – it’s not. It is perfectly legal to pick bluebonnets as long as one doesn’t damage the ROW, park illegally, or trespass on private property.

So all this leads to the question – just because there are a lot of testimonies about what a literal Christ said and did, does that make it true? Just because some guys in the past decided that certain books should be canonical scripture and others not, does that make the bible correct? People lie. They lie out of ignorance to knowing the truth, they lie because they believe the lies they’ve been told, and they lie as a means to an end. For me, there’s were too many opportunities in the early history of Christianity for people to lie to get their version of events to become orthodox. The RC church is a political organization that has lost a lot of its political power. It enforced it’s orthodoxy at the end of a sword and did a pretty good job of wiping out those that disagreed and their writings. No matter if we are Catholics or Protestants, what we have left as “truth” is what the politically motivated Roman Catholic church allowed to survive.