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Originally Posted by khfreek
Seeing as how this stuff was written 3000 or more years ago by guys living in the middle of the desert, I think it's safe to say that they might let their imaginations run wild with what is and isn't real. Christians might say TODAY that it's allegorical, but I find it hard to believe that was the original intent.
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Actually, I personally believe that it was more or less the early Roman Catholic church. The council of Nicea (wiki that) in the 3rd century. was responsible for thee doctrine that basically said that being a christian meant believing in christs divinity, death and resurrection as a means of salvation. Then there's the great scourge of charlemagne, the crusades, the spanish inquisition yada, yaa, yada. I don't believe Christ's original followers had such huge sticks up their a$$es.