Reply #37: I am currently reading a book titled "Misquoting Jesus" [View All]

It's written by Bart Ehrman, chair of the department of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. It is an incredibly detailed and remarkably researched account of how we got our Bible, specifically the New Testament, and how the translations and words of Jesus got "tweaked" by scholars with often very different motivations and agendas. I agree that the words of Jesus I have always known and studied are pretty much ignored by a lot of "mainstream" Christians, but at this point I'm not sure I know what Jesus actually intended. He's quoted as saying, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me", which pretty much lays out the path to salvation as preached by the Fundamentalists. This rules out any other way to God and that's the tough part, when one thinks about it. It becomes complicated and of course confusing and difficult to explain and I can only hope Jesus actually did say "seek and you shall find", because these days I'm doing a lot of seeking!