A Brief Personal Introduction
In 1969 I became a
Christian.
Like most new
converts, I started out with a vague concept that “the bible is the word of
God”, without giving very much thought to just what that might mean. My conversion had been heavily influenced by
a group of Christians in my college who were far more knowledge than myself,
and I simply adopted their viewpoint. The bible was “The Book” and was God’s
chosen way of communicating with us, and that was it.
In
1971 I joined the extremist “Children of God” sect (there’s more on this
in How
to Survive in the Pharisee Church). The Children of God regarded the King
James Version from the 16th century as the only divinely ordained
translation . . . Continue reading >>
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