Culture wars raging in the church. The church needs to wage war against SSM, homosexuality and gender-bending - to name just some of the vile secularity of the world. No wonder the organised church is increasingly seen as the greatest impediment to Christianity. "From the Church Militant to the Church Pusillanimous", as one commentator wrote recently.

Today's bible, a collection of books allowed by Constantine.

Excludes important theology, i.e., we're all fallen angels trying to get back home/our natural state? That the teaching of resurrection could more easily apply to reincarnation?

Because only with reincarnation can evil doers reap what they sow. Just as a pebble thrown into a pond makes ripples that are only stopped at the shoreline, so also those things perpetrated in a physical world should be also appropriately rewarded in this world.

That then would make perfect sense/justice in a world where there's much suffering, poverty, want/unmet need.

Continuing until the time when we run out of time to address it! By learning o forgive, and understanding that even with all the gold in the world, no man no matter how rich and powerful, nobody can buy a single minute longer than their allotted time.

That wealth is merely a tool to be used to create a better world, free from hunger, poverty, want/unmet need. Remove poverty, hunger all manner of unmet need. And you end most of the petty crime, crimes that once lead to transportation barbarity and forced colonisation. Just too easy first cab of rank, world cheapest energy, i.e., MSR thorium. followed by deionisation dialysis desalination.

Which together will drought-proof most nations and reverse desertification, to the point where 50 million drought displaced refugees can go home or to new lands reclaimed from arid wastelands.

Others can be assured that the occasionally failed crop will never fail again for lack of water, that streams and rivers running down hillsides will not become raging torrents and epic tragedies going somewhere to happen, because mountainsides have been denuded for fuel etc. But instead become (reafforested) orchards etc.

That we deprivatize water and energy provision, in order to allow these things to happen.

That we embrace and prioritise cooperative capitalism in the sure and certain knowledge, this is the only vehicle that will promote such outcomes/universal prosperity, as opposed to, extreme capitalism or its alter-ego, equally insane communism.

Neither of these fundamentally flawed systems supports a genuine inclusive Christian ethos!
Alan B.

Being a moderate sort of chap I prefer the Viking approach to Cathedrals.

The Bible but which version? there's so many, it is not quite as bad as the Book Of Mormon but its just as made up

The culture war is between the apostates and believers. Deniers of the resurrection are apostate and have a useless faith. TThey May as well join the God deniers and warmist religion. Sells nonsense and denial dates back to the original deniers.

No need to explain away the Resurrection - belief in which made Christianity last for over two millennia without the majority of Christians having to philosophise/theologise about it - by pointing out that the Bible does not mean resuscitation: Even John knew that a physical (as we still understand the term) body could not pass through a closed door (John 20:19 and 20:26).

Belief in Resurrection (and the resurrection of all of us), does not make sense without belief in a Reality beyond the physical/material. The difference between Resurrection and resurrection is that Jesus/Christ could come back, make an appearance in the physical world before his final departure (Ascension).