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To: Torie
find declaring there is only one road to travel to living the good life, ie the Christian road, or as some would say only one sect of it, as interpreted by those of a religious monnopolist bent, to be hubris. I see it per my own experience. Your mileage obviously varies.

Your opinion on this is widely shared. It's normal. I once shared it with great passion.

Consider these points:

1) Jesus performed a lot of miracles, with a lot of witnesses, and there is very good reason to believe that the stories are not myth or legend. A great number of very intelligent people have studied the stories, and have come to believe them based on the merits of the evidence.

2) Jesus was killed for, and while, proclaiming Himself to be the one true God, and the only path to God.

3) Jesus resurrected himself, and that event was reliably witnessed by hundreds of people.

4) Countless people have accepted Jesus' words as truth, and have found that simply by doing so, amazing things have occured in their lives.

If all of that is true, is it not in fact being generous for a Christian to tell you about it? Keep in mind that the Christian fully expects you to resent or hate them for it, because often they had "been there, done that".

440 posted on 08/18/2005 10:53:24 PM PDT by GSHastings
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To: GSHastings

If this, if that, but don't equate disagreement or even distaste with hate. That simply is a lazy and simplistic way of viewing the matter. It appears to me to be parroting mindlessly some passage of the Bible inappropriately, and inappositely.


442 posted on 08/18/2005 10:58:11 PM PDT by Torie
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To: GSHastings
Jesus performed a lot of miracles, with a lot of witnesses

The only proof of any such miracles is the Bible. That is hardly what I would call an unbiased source.

Jesus was killed for, and while, proclaiming Himself to be the one true God, and the only path to God.

Jesus was killed for getting involved in a complicated political, imperial, religious, social and colonial situation. In all honesty, the Romans didn't care that he proclaimed that there was only one God. In their mind, he was just another crackpot in Judea.

Jesus resurrected himself, and that event was reliably witnessed by hundreds of people.

Again, the only source for this claim is the Bible.

Countless people have accepted Jesus' words as truth, and have found that simply by doing so, amazing things have occured in their lives.

That can be said of any other religion. Even Islam.

578 posted on 08/19/2005 9:24:18 AM PDT by Modernman ("A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy." -Disraeli)
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