...is because the Church is heading in the opposite direction the Bible points towards, which, if the Bible, generally believed to be the Word of God (emphasis, mine), is about the salvation of one's soul in the afterlife, should be in the general direction of Heaven, wherever that might be.
And this I know, how?
Anyone who reads it, the Bible, in its pure, unadulterated, literal form will come to the same conclusion. Of course, if you listen to Church elders who tell you not to take the Bible, generally believed to be the Word of God (emphasis, mine), literally (which some folk might interpret as being told by the Church not to take the word of God seriously) (seriously?), you too will brush it aside in favor of what the Church, after a heavy-duty editorial job spanning approximately two thousand years, has extracted from it for usage in its own Church Doctrine.
But, why in Heaven's name, pun unintended, would the (so-called) holy Church do such an unholy thing in the first place, you may ask?
Approximately two thousand years ago, the disciple named Peter had a revelation and saw that winning the hearts of new converts would be almost impossible if the old ways were to be followed, the old ways Moses preached about which Jesus said he did not come to abolish but to uphold, the old ways that made the road to salvation narrow and difficult to traverse. So, what the disciple named Peter did was to do away with some of the old ways to make the road to salvation wide and easy to traverse.
Approximately two thousand years later, the Church has diligently continued the legacy the disciple named Peter left behind.
Imagine, were you a die-hard purist, the amount of damage approximately two thousand years of Church-sanctioned editorial work has done to the original contents of the Bible, generally believed to be the Word of God (emphasis, mine).
On second thoughts, perhaps I should resume going to church once again. After all, the more than two billion people doing it can't be wrong, can they?
