I don't even know what following the Bible in its entirety means. - Edit 1
Before modification by Ghavrel at 14/05/2011 09:23:12 PM
It's a book that combines the wholesale slaughter of cities with injunctions to love thy neighbor.
As for me, I'm a universalist, so I guess your criticism on that point is valid. I don't see why you say there's a distinction between Christianity and universalism. There have been universalist and exclusivist Christians since at least Origen. Even if Christ is the only way to salvation, it doesn't necessarily follow that people are going to end up damned.
Anyway, that's an aside. As to why having a Bible is good, my ill-formed point was that it's not needed from a prescriptive moral standpoint (i.e. "Thou Shalt Not" ). Just because morals are intuitive doesn't mean salvation is.
As for me, I'm a universalist, so I guess your criticism on that point is valid. I don't see why you say there's a distinction between Christianity and universalism. There have been universalist and exclusivist Christians since at least Origen. Even if Christ is the only way to salvation, it doesn't necessarily follow that people are going to end up damned.
Anyway, that's an aside. As to why having a Bible is good, my ill-formed point was that it's not needed from a prescriptive moral standpoint (i.e. "Thou Shalt Not" ). Just because morals are intuitive doesn't mean salvation is.