@FourOh-LLC I think it's important that we have an organized religion, but my devotion to any particular church isn't as slavish as they probably want. I kind of view it this way: it's legitimate, until it isn't.

As for scripture, the canon we now call the "Bible" was cherry picked, reconstructed, edited, and otherwise altered in who knows how many ways. Around 350 AD, not long after the first council was really formed, they banned all "heretical" writings. A lot of scriptures were lost this way, and many more were edited to fit their agenda. The Gnostic texts come to mind, which were lost for nearly two millennia before being rediscovered by a fluke.

Who knows what else is lost.

@opphunter88