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To: CyberAnt
"And .. if you're not asking Jesus into your heart - then just who are you asking into your heart ..?? "

Take a deep breath ... relax ... I'm not attacking Christianity or undermining its basic tenets. Stop responding with childish taunts and verses that don't support your cause:

Romans 10:9-10 KJV
9That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

It says, "confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus", or as the NIV puts it, "Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord".

It does not say, "Confess with your mouth that you've asked Jesus (or anyone else) into your heart." You think you see it in there, and you tell me I'm not a Christian if I don't see it, too.

All I'm saying is that the phrase has crept into the Church, and we've accepted it and believe it's "in there somewhere" - when if fact it's not. It's watered-down Christianity.

And you're right, "being a Christian means knowing Christ - not who HE is - but knowing HIM."

But if that's the case, then what does this mean: "... the fact that your only answer is "you're wrong" - proves beyond any shadow of a doubt - you are not a Christian???

I'll assume that's not really your theology, but just a temper tantrum.

22 posted on 05/24/2005 8:54:43 AM PDT by watchin (People become leftists as a sort of gesture of infantile rage against their parents)
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To: watchin

Speaking in a condescending tone and demeaning me with juvenile statements says far more about you than it does me.

You are allowed to believe whatever YOU choose .. you have made it clear that I do not have that same right to choose.

For that reason .. I have no desire to continue this conversation.


23 posted on 05/24/2005 11:02:04 AM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
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