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You say that the bible has led many early cristians to literacy, again many is not the correct word most people where simple farmers and couldn't afford any type of schooling only the nobles and priests could afford to be thought writing reading and Latin. This great number you speak of does not exist. It was the opposite priests and noble men had no interrest in educating the people, because god feering domb people where easier to control then well educated people.  

Why do you think that the church feered science in the middle ages? It wasn't because it was thought to be the work of satan no it was because they feered that people would get educated know that the bible isn't as true as they'd like to believe. They where afraid that the people gained control lost faithed in the church that they would lose power. 

And you know they where right because as soon as the people got educated they lost their faith why is it that many scientists do not believe in the story of creation? why is it that in Europe this liberation has led to a dramatic decrease in numbers that visit the church? 

It is because people know that people know they do not have to read a bible and do not have to go to church to feel a connection to god or whatever they believe in. 

And the sweden thing? it can be cold there if he would've walked on water there I wouldn't have had a problem with it.  

Can you prove that? After the Bible was officially complied as a collection of books in 397 AD, by the Eastern Orthodox people, there is no evidence that the churches even taught their parishoners to read from a Bible. 

I know for a fact here in Oklahoma that as a general rule members of Roman Catholic Churches were told NOT to own a Bible, let alone read one. It was not until the 1970s before they approved of church members owning a Bible and reading it on their own. 

Why were they told not to read the Bible? Because the RCC leaders were supposedly afraid that they would misinterpret what they read. And only an ordained minister in the RCC was allowed to interpret what they read in the Scriptures. Well, that meant that the Holy Spirit must not be involved with the church member's walk with the Lord or the fact that the RCC people were afraid that some church doctrines and traditions were NOT supported by what was written in the Bible. 

And, also, Jesus, Himself, did not approve of spiritual leaders being called "Father" or by any other title.  

One thing has been proven in this message board discussion about Wednesday's show, lots of people don't know when things are meant to be taken as literal and when some things are meant to be taken as figures of speech or metaphors by the Bibles authors. Jesus used parables, made up stories, a whole lot of times to teach a particular doctrine. They had truth in them; but, they were not actual literal events.