I had a minister once that I truly admired. He always put the scriptures in context of the era in which they were written. I find it absurd that many interpret scripture according to the world of today. Unless the writers were psychic how would they be able to contemplate the changes.

I had visited many sects and denominations in my youth to find the one that fit with my beliefs, my world view. I found it curious at the time and ludicrous now that the same exact passage can be interpreted nearly 180 degrees by some groups. That is why I enjoyed the minister using context to explain the passage and then translating it to the modern world.

Oh BTW, I know I am damned to hell, just ask many of the people of other faiths that know me.

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Well, I am sure we "doubters" appreciate the sincerity of your efforts to bring us to your way of thinking confined and restricted as it is. As I read the gospels, the following sticks out to me: "He who believeth and is baptized shall be saved..." . We know what the various forms of christian baptism entails. What about belief? I can't seem to find Jesus saying that a person has to believe the 6-day creation or a planet that is only 6000 years old in order to be saved. It seems to my reading that he was saying that the critical belief is to be able to confess in his literal atoning for the one's sins. This seems to be the core of his message regarding belief.
Why conflate what he obviously says (belief in him, his mission, and his death and resurrection) with what you think should be included in that belief (e.g., 6-day creation or disbelief in an evolutionary scheme that takes place in every genetics laboratory) and which has no bearing at all on salvation? In other words what right do you have to add criteria to the criteria of salvation that he so he so clearly and unambiguously stated?

I had a minister once that I truly admired. He always put the scriptures in context of the era in which they were written. I find it absurd that many interpret scripture according to the world of today. Unless the writers were psychic how would they be able to contemplate the changes.

I had visited many sects and denominations in my youth to find the one that fit with my beliefs, my world view. I found it curious at the time and ludicrous now that the same exact passage can be interpreted nearly 180 degrees by some groups. That is why I enjoyed the minister using context to explain the passage and then translating it to the modern world.

Oh BTW, I know I am damned to hell, just ask many of the people of other faiths that know me.

Red pill,"I had visited many sects and denominations in my youth TO FIND ONE THAT FIT MY BELIEFS" that is looking for something with a closed mind already. Listen to Catholics, Protastants, the Jewish religion, even Islam and other religions. Yes in the early days a lot of words had not come to existence yet, but the meaning is there. The word dinasaour did not exist untill the 1800's or it would have been in the Bible. Back in 1993 I decided to read the King James Bible cover to cover, it didn't take that long. Now I see that predictions in the book of Daniel and Revalation are coming to pass. Did you know that the Bible instructed the people to wash their hands with"running water"? Doctors found that to be true as they use to use the same water container to wash their hands between surgerys and were exposing patients to diseases, it also says that the Easth is a sphere. Open your mind to the possibility of the Designer of the Universe to be our Father, btw He loves you and does not want you to be damned to hell.