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13. Relying on reasoning is sinful.

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #4)

Sun Nov 23, 2025, 12:10 PM

Nov 23

One must believe, trust, and follow the literal Word of God as written in the Bible.

Never mind that 99.99999% (or thereabouts) of people cannot possibly know what was actually written in the Bible, because these words were written in many other languages, that not only we don't speak, but those languages were very different at the time of the Bible writing than those languages are today.

So, they must rely on other people in their church to explain to them, the meaning of those words they must trust and follow, and they are not allowed to use their own brains and reasoning power, because relying on human reasoning is sinful.

(I have fundamentalists in my extended family, :sigh: )

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