Reply #113: You are ignoring all the rest of the NT and a lot of the OT. [View All]

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I know it is fashionable for liberal Christians to do just that, but others cannot be blamed for declining to do so.

This is apart from the fact that the Gospels are not reliable indicators of what JC said or did since they contradict each other and because a lot of the stuff he does is impossible. Plus there are his dubious morality, thought crimes, demand for unquestioning acceptance, the novel concept of eternal punishment and impossible standards designed to instill false hope and perpetual guilt for failing to meet those standards.

Plus there are the centuries of ecclesiastical thought since the Christian Bible was written which supports the conservative point of view. That is as much part of Christianity as the Bible is.

The conservatives do ignore parts of the Bible. That is a fact. Still, they ignore a lot less of it than liberal believers do.