I haven't lived in Stettler that long but I got that feeling that lots of people follow this Pastor Ross from the Erskine Evangelical Free Church.  I read his column inthe Stettler Independent and sometimes he makes sense.  But last week he really confused me.  He write this.

"My goal has been simply to turn the thoughts of my readers toward the fact that there is one God; that he left us with one book (the Bible) and here we read that He sent his only Son (Jesus) 'To give His life a ransom for many' (Mark 10:45)"

Mama and Papa raised me in a good Catholic education in Quebec so maybe that is why I do not understand this Protestant religion.  But do they not teach that the Bible is not one book, but many book put together in one volume?  Those books in the Bible were not written by one person.  They were wrote by many people and over many hundreds of years or am I wrong?  Did not the Pope decide sometime what books go into the Bible and decide that some do not?  Are not even the Gospels written by four different people over many years and after Jesus?  Maybe somebody better tell Pastor Ross the Good News about the Bible.

I ask my neighbor Clarence about this and he told me that the Evangelical Christians believe that the Bible books were all divinely inspired in the people that wrote them by God and that is why they are all God's books.  DOes anybody know wheere this idea come from?  Is there some teaching somewhere that I can look up to find this out?  Mayb e I have to ask Pastor Ross.

I also looked up his quote from the Gospel of Mark.  My Bible says this.  "For even the Son of Man did not come to be served: he came to serve and to give his life to redeem many people."  My Bible is the Today's English Version that the Catholic Pope say to use.  My english is not too good, but I think there is a big difference between redeem and ransom.  Do the Protestants believe that the Devil held the people kidnapped and get a ransom from God, like the pirates in Africa?  I have never heard this.  Maybe it is because the Bible was not wrote in English and the translations are bad?

I hope some of you can help me out.  thanks.

THANKS MR. FLEMMING!

I can see that I will read my Bible more carefully.  Maybe I will send you some more questions?  It is certainly not quotes that I have ever considered together at one time before.  That Bible sure is a confusing book!  Oopps.  I mean BOOKS!