May 26, 2024 – B

Doing an internet search for
"who put the bible together and when"
does us the favor 
of moving the conversation away from
"GOD,"
and enables us to consider the question,
"What did those Roman Catholic Men
stand to gain from putting the Bible together
as they did,
in terms of 'What to leave in and what to leave out?'"

When we look at what those men stood to gain
by including what they included in "the Holy Scriptures,"
and then declaring what "God said"
in quoting the very scriptures they had put together
in their power struggles with the Roman Empire,
and in their unending quest to expand the membership
of The Church (Their Church) 
by proclaiming what "God said," in 350 BCE, and following,
it becomes clear that the men who said
what the Bible says
by making sure it was in the Bible,
had everything to gain--for themselves and for The Church--
in seeing to it that the Bible says what they wanted
it to say.

And the fact that those men, 
or those like them,
from 50 to 350 BCE
were also guilty of persecuting,
killing, bullying, exorcising, purging, expelling, etc.
all those who disagreed
with their version of "revealed Truth,"
clarifies to all onlookers
that the church benefits handsomely
by what the bible says and says not,
and that its spokespersons
are hardly disinterested participants 
in the process of determining
what God has to say about anything. 

In other words,
"Isn't it convenient
that the Bible says 
what the church says the Bible says?
It's another miracle!
And a wonder of Grace at work in our lives!"
Wink, wink, nod, nod.

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