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Finding Your Roots.
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It has become a popular pastime to track down your ancestors: to find out exactly where the family came from and how far back in time you can go, before the records run out or the family identity is untraceable. People used to trek half way around the world to look at gravestones and study parish registers, and many still do. But now online census data and other electronic records have made searching much easier and this has made the pastime much more popular.
For some people it really matters where they have come from and who they are. Perhaps they never knew their real parents or grandparents and finding out about them is the next best thing to knowing them. Other people struggle with their sense of identity and don’t seem to fit in, so they track back in their past looking for answers to who they really are. And sometimes it is important to be able to find out how long your ancestors lived and whether they suffered from illnesses that might have passed down the family line.
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One Bible, Many Churches - Does it Matter?
When the Protestant Reformers opposed and subsequently separated from the Church of Rome, their battle cry was "The Bible, the whole Bible and nothing but the Bible". Underlying that cry was a theory that if people could read the Bible for themselves they would discover the truth about God and His purpose, would shed their old errors, and consequently would be united by a common faith.
One of the great disappointments of Protestantism has been that the theory did not work. Instead of the unity which its founders expected, it produced in the course of time a diversity of opinion and an increasing number of competing religious communities all claiming in some sense to be founded on the Bible, resulting in the religious chaos in Christendom today. One of the reasons for the modern ecumenical movement is the awareness that the existence of so many different churches is a reproach to Christianity itself. That personal freedom which was an essential feature of the Protestant cause has produced the very things which have weakened it. Supposedly centred around one Bible, the Protestant churches have in the course of the centuries multiplied their differences.
Was the theory wrong -- the idea that the teaching of the Bible was all-sufficient and, to men of sense and goodwill, self-evident? The fact that results fell far short of the ideal does not make the theory false. As will be shown later there were other factors which spoiled and limited the unifying effect of religious truth. The Bible’s claims about itself assert that its teaching is all-inclusive and all-sufficient.
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