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Now for something completely different, can different ideas be true? Okay, this video is about ideas concerning the flat earth theory, but . . . I think there is another thing touched upon in it, that is interesting to ponder. Don't get bogged down it the things that the video is trying to inform you of (unless you really want to), but instead, skip ahead to 8 minutes and 36 seconds nto the video. Consider what the narrator is trying to get accoss about how we know things, and how things can be seen from different perspectives, and different things can seem true from those perspectives, and perhaps, not really be as certain as we think they are. When you grasp the concept, if you grasp the concept, keep it in mind, next time you engage in or read debates on topics like pre-trib/post-trib eschatology, or Calvinism/Arminianism sotierology, etc. Above all, don't go crazy being to serious, relax and enjoy our differences. I am going to set the video here, to play from 8 minutes, 36 seconds forward, if you want to watch the whole thing, you will have to use the video player's slider, to start the video at the beginning. Fair warning: If you feel tempted to make a discussion/debate of this, especially the topic of the shape of the earth addressed in the video if you watch it from the beginning,, you may find yourself banned from participation in this thread, and your posts deleted. The thread (regardless of the topic that the video author intended) is about how it might be possible, for competing ideas to be true, as long as they are not directly contradictory to each other.

I play around a lot with bible gateway's search tool to find the differences between copies of the bibles. Some things I've found that been bugging me about NIV is the switching or subtraction of words. I'll give some examples. In NIV there are no occurrences of the word "saint", it has all been changed to "holy ones" or "holy people" etc. I was under the understanding that only God was holy. Am I wrong? 1 Samuel 2:2 New International Version (NIV) 2 “There is no one holy like the Lord; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God. Okay, so from Samuel 2:2 of NIV we see the statement that only the Lord is holy. We get the same result from KJV too. 1 Samuel 2:2 Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV) 2 There is none holy as the Lord: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God. Then Psalm 89:7 of NIV goes on to contradict this statement. Psalm 89:7 New International Version (NIV) 7 In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared; he is more awesome than all who surround him. So only God is holy yet He is before the holy ones? In the same Psalm, KJV sticks to the use of the word "saint". Psalm 89:7 Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV) 7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. The NIV is implying an equality between God and the followers. This is insanely deceptive. I honestly feel that what I see qualifies NIV as false doctrine. Can I get some input from you doctrine experts out there?