Addendum to Skepticism

To clarify my thoughts concerning the first few paragraphs below, there are, I'll call them voices, that speak about Christianity. I've mentioned several examples. They fall into three different catagories.

First voices within the church, or at least purportedly so. Note my mention of the preachers, church denominations, indulgences etc.
Second voices from the media, for example the popular book the Da Vinci Code and even the program THE VIEW.
The third voices were from science.

All of these voices raise supposed contradictions, or varying attitudes and opinions. Taken together on an equal basis it is truely a confusing mess.

Heres what I argue, one must continually evaluate all the voices, against a common baseline. To be sure there is a pretty substantial baseline that has existed from the beginning.
The three honest considerations I suggest at the end are briefly,
1. The personal experience of believers.
2. Cutting through the confusion of contradictions.
3. Drawing a straight line (the baseline).
I've observed, most of the "controversies" we hear about now, are not new, but old ones that were settled, long ago, but just rehashed. The three ecumenical creeds of Christendom are examples of that baseline for measurement. Within protestantism, the "confessions" of the early reformers are another example. And the Bible is the starting point, which all that follows is measured. Taken together, this is a very convincing basis for the legitimacy of the Christian faith.

This is good news to an honest seeker after truth Remember it's easy to be a skeptic. To find the truth is harder, but much more rewarding.