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Constancy:
1 a : steadfastness of mind under duress : FORTITUDE b : FIDELITY, LOYALTY
2 : a state of being constant or unchanging
Consistency:
1 a archaic : condition of adhering together : firmness of material substance b : firmness of constitution or character : PERSISTENCY
2 : degree of firmness, density, viscosity, or resistance to movement or separation of constituent particles
3 a : agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : CORRESPONDENCE; specifically : ability to be asserted together without contradiction b : harmony of conduct or practice with profession
Measure:
1 a : to choose or control with cautious restraint : REGULATE b : to regulate by a standard : GOVERN
2 : to allot or apportion in measured amounts
3 : to lay off by making measurements
4 : to ascertain the measurements of
5 : to estimate or appraise by a criterion
6 archaic : to travel over : TRAVERSE
7 : to serve as a means of measuring
intransitive senses
1 : to take or make a measurement
2 : to have a specified measurement
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Without a source work how do you measure your beliefs against those that allegedly predate the bible? How in fact, do you prove that those beliefs even existed. Prelitterate society left no written record. Considering people dispute the authenticity of the most verified human work, how am I to simply accept oral records as truth, let alone displaying any sort of similarity or connection with times before, or since?
Without a source work, how do you allow for a measurement of your own actions against an independent barometer? How can you claim to any similarity with religions of the past if no works exist?
Without a source work, are you not relying totally on your own experiences of this life, rather than the accumulated knowledge of those before you? How then, if relying on the here and now, can you make a claim to predating the bible?
If the bible is a sourcework you are using, why are you denigrating it, and why are you deviating from it's central assertions? Are you choosing to believe some sections and not others?
If you are choosing to believe some sections and not others, are you not amalgamating some of what the bible says, with beliefs from outside the bible?
If you are amalgamating, why is this description insulting to you?
Finally, I constantly CONSTANTLY hear online words of derision, ridicule and scorn for
1. My church
2. My faith
3. My God
4. My sourcework
5. My life reason.
I am often accused of responding harshly or oversensitively.
Yet what are you here doing? You talk of one's own medicine being hard to swallow, but I'm afraid it's the pot calling the kettle black.