The contents of the Bible were not closed until late in the fourth century. That gave the Church of Rome 397 years to get the script right in having the Bible say what the Church needed it to say, namely, “You all are sinners and are going straight to hell if you don’t do what the Church tells you to do!” That, and the fact that there never was a Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve (Where do the dinosaurs come in?) Original Sin, Need for Redemption, etc., X’s out the need for Jesus to die to redeem us. We have all been scammed. Jesus’ parable of the Prodigal Son says all that needs to be said about heaven and hell. The Prodigal’s father welcomed his son just as he was with, “Get out of here with your litany of confession in the search for forgiveness! There is no place for that here! For you once were lost and now are found! We’re dead, but now you are alive! And that is what greets everyone at Heaven’s Gate.
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