I use to think that all that separated most 'christians' was minor differences about things like tongues or baptism. I am seeing more and more that not all that calls itself Christian is in fact faith. For years, at least in my learnign, the baad guys were the cults like JWs or Mormons. The thought that someone could hold a view so contray to the Word of God call themselves Christian neverr ocurred to me. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/stupidme.gif" alt="" /> This fact makes real dicussion of Bibical issues difficult. Many would rather just dismiss the importance of sound doctrine and instead talk about how something makes them feel about God or themselves. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/puke.gif" alt="" /> But I digress.

One one think that coming to Scripture would bring people to common ground. NO. Just like salvation has be co opted by human will so has the Word of God. Many that I talk with think that the Bible is not the word of God but rather Jesus is the word of God. They palce more faith in the personal experiences "with Jesus" than in the words He spoke. Nothing is certain in this view because everyone is subjective. So the Bible becomes so nice saying that might inspire and occaisionally correct but in the end the final authority is their experience. Although the argue that this is not the case. But I am hard pressed to be conviced.