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To: malakhi
Those of us who do not accept the inspiration of the Christian scriptures can have a favorable opinion of Jesus, without assuming that everything said about him, and everything attributed to him, is 100% accurate.

Then you have to pick and choose what to believe is accurate because the same sources you use to have a favorable opinion of Jesus, as a man, are the same sources where He claims Diety for Himself and that says without Him there is no approaching the Father.

2,669 posted on 04/08/2004 10:07:00 AM PDT by ksen (This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth I bid you stand, Men of the West!)
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To: ksen
Then you have to pick and choose what to believe is accurate

Yes, that is absolutely correct. I have no problem with that.

because the same sources you use to have a favorable opinion of Jesus, as a man, are the same sources where He claims Diety for Himself

Now with this I do not necessarily agree. There are no extant original manuscripts. There are large numbers of variant texts. I do not assume that the present text is identical to that written by the original author.

2,673 posted on 04/08/2004 10:14:13 AM PDT by malakhi (L'shana haba'ah b'Yerushalayim!)
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