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Re: If you're an AFOL and you know it raise your hand (WAS: Blacksmith Shop)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 19 Dec 2001 00:36:20 GMT
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jude Beaudin writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Allan Bedford writes:
> > > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> >
> > > > > > Allan Bedford wrote:
> > > > > > I am NOT an AFOL, I do not find many of the things that make AFOLS giddy to
> > > > > > be very interesting to me. I am adult who enjoys 'building' with LEGO.
> > > > >
> > > > > Adult who enjoys 'building' with LEGO sounds like an AFOL to me.
> > > >
> > > > I guess I'm just not fond of labels. If someone else wants to call themself
> > > > an AFOL I have no problem with that... it's just not for me.
> >
> > > But is not "adult who enjoys building with LEGO" as much a label as "adult fan
> > > of LEGO"? 8?)
> >
> > Is someone who believes in God necessarily a Christian?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Allan B.
> > Definitely NOT an AFOL
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> Wow, this thread has gone from the discovery of the MOC series on the LEGO
> website to asking the question, "Who is God?" :-)
Testing, testing, 1... 2... 3, testing.
I am not 100% certain that the words I'm typing on my computer are
transmitting correctly to the LUGNET server. I'm almost certain I didn't
ask "Who is God?" What I asked was, "Is someone who believes in God
necessarily a Christian?" How an individual chooses to define (or not
believe in) a god is entirely their choice. But it is entirely accurate to
say that there are people in this world who believe in "god" (big or small
'G' is up to you) who absolutely do not call themselves Christians.
> I think a better question
> would have been: just because you live in a garage, does that make you a car?
No, the proper question (if using this metaphor) would have been to ask, "If
you live in a garage, do you want to call yourself a car?" Perhaps you want
to live in a garage and call yourself Fonzie. Perhaps you have decided to
identify yourself as homeless. Maybe you see yourself as a squatter, or a
person exploring 'alternative living arrangements'. But what you call
yourself is up to you, not up to anyone else.
If you want to believe in God, you don't have to be a Christian.
If you want to build with LEGO, and you are over 18, you don't have to call
yourself an AFOL.
> But seriously, one can answer your question with yes. If Jesus Christ is God
> and you believe in God, you are a Christian.
I guessed I missed a memo. I didn't realize that God had been defined as
being Jesus Christ. For some people God does not exist between the covers
of the Bible. For some people God/god is a force within themselves or
without... wandering through the cosmos. If you've never talked to a
believer in God who didn't label themselves as Christian I would really
recommend it. They are generally nice people. :)
> Jude
> an AFOL, unlike Allan B., who is Definitely NOT an AFOL
Allan
(Who respects Jude's desire to be identified as an AFOL and would try to
sway Jude into thinking anything differently)
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