Why Theology Matters

Alpha & Omega Ministries

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Naturally, as an Aussie, the first thing I did was investigate Christianity. I had a few

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Christian friends, and I remember going to a church camp. It was one of the funniest camps

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I've ever been to in my life. Everybody was singing. I didn't know what the words were. I didn't know what they were saying.

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It sounded great. They had beautiful voices, but it just seemed really strange. And everybody was telling me how much

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God loved me, and I was thinking, God loves me? My dog died! So I kept on investigating

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Christianity, and I went to a whole lot of, I guess, different aspects of Christianity. So we're talking about Catholicism, we're talking about Anglican Baptists, you know, priests, pastors.

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And every time I'd go there and ask questions, I'd find that they wouldn't pick up the Bible and start to say,

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Oh, this is the answer, my dear brother. They would just start answering me. They would just answer from their own opinions.

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And I started to realize that there was a lot of interpretations of Christianity, and a lot of people had their own interpretations, and one priest from one church was believing one particular aspect of Christianity, whilst another was proclaiming another.

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So I started to think to myself, the Bible is one text, but there seems to be so many different interpretations, and it was confusing.