Re: I'm not a religious man, but......
The oil question needs to be answered by someone who knows everything about ALL oils, so that a comparison can be made to verify if the oil chosen will actually provide the lubrication that is advertised. However, remember that all oils are man made and therefore you cannot trust any oil manufacturer to provide an oil that will really do the job...thus the thing to do is to just make your own oil, and believe that it is the right one, and if anyone else even remotely TRIES to tell you that your oil is not the right one to use, then you can tell them to quit trying to force their opinion about your oil down your craw. Now, the problem is, is that even among the oil makers themselves, the only thing they want is your money, so if they have to tell you what you want to hear to get it, they will, and unless you actually go out and take the time to study how each oil is made, where the original product was retrieved from, since it may not be pure, and then talk to every manufacturer to see just what it is that they promise to be the values of their oil...now, when you complete all that, you will have tons of questions and doubts still about which is the right one to use, so then you need to find someone who has had experience with EVERY oil and draw from their experience, which SHOULD tell you which oil is the REAL oil, in compariosn to all the others with all their promises, and in spite of the fact that you have a manual that tells you all about the oil that was created to be better than any other oil that can ever be made, you feel that the book was written by a man so it couldn't possibly be right...after all, YOU know more than any oil maker!!! and now you have got to come up with a way to judge WHICH manufacturer is actually telling you the truth, and then shouldn't you consider all the rest to be liars?? After all, there HAS to be ONE oil that is the REAL oil!!! You know that there is a higher oil somewhere, but you cannot believe that oil is simply what someone has told you, and it has to be impossible to trust that book that was written about the right oil, so you decide that your own oil you made up is the only one that can be right. Therefore you just use it and tell everyone that it doesn't really matter what oil you use, just choose the one that makes you feel good, and go with it...after all, your engine that you are so proud of really doesn't care what oil you use, because it loves all oil, and can tolerate ANY oil in it...<br /><br /><br />UNTIL...one day, the engine becomes deathly ill, and you find that the oil you used is not what you thought it was...and then it is too late, because the engine cannot be revived, and you have to toss it into the junk yard for scrap.
<br /><br />BTW, the verses I memorized growing up as a Baptist were KJV, now as a Methodist we read from the Revised Standard Version. Haven't yet found any discepancies that so much as raised an eyebrow. but then I should probably read more carefully. 