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The Catholic church particularly ostracized and buy hermes enamel bracelets put on trial all those scientists who challenged their cosmology only to buy hermes enamel bracelets find out that the scientists were right. Embarrassing to say the buy hermes enamel bracelets least!
The church then buy hermes enamel bracelets needed some way of holding the faithful, keeping people tied to buy hermes enamel bracelets the coat tails of the church. So, one no longer believed in a buy hermes enamel bracelets PERSON, but in a statement- a creed!
Can you say Nicea? Maybe Chalcedon?
One was questioned as to if they “believed in that” or if they “believed in this“. If you buy hermes enamel bracelets got the answer right you were a friend. If you buy hermes enamel bracelets answered wrongly you could be burned at the stake. Many were!
The Enlightenment challenged the church in some of it’s wacky ideas: like the buy hermes enamel bracelets sun standing still in the sky. The new way of understanding our universe, as heliocentric and not geocentric, put the buy hermes enamel bracelets church on a collision course with their own hithertofore unchallenged beliefs.
Inerrancy of the Scriptures? No way! 
When dozens of errors were brought to light in the Bible, the church dug it’s heels in even further. It’s like do you buy hermes enamel bracelets really think the reality of who Jesus was and is, is buy hermes enamel bracelets dependent upon a library of 66 books (unless you are Catholic) having no errors? Why would one want to even take that position anyway?
What’s the point?
The last 50-100 years has buy hermes enamel bracelets put the traditional church in an even deeper hole. All because of what’s perceived as a NEED to buy hermes enamel bracelets believe in certain denominational statements. Believing in the person of Jesus, the buy hermes enamel bracelets Christ will really be all that’s needful. And He’s much easier to defend (as though He needed defending) than some of the wacko church doctrines and creeds.
Know what I mean? 
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