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Re: Geez, its hard to stomach all of this (ain't it though? :)
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Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:47:59 GMT
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Matt Hanson writes:
> Tom McDonald wrote:
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> >
> > I can see the irony though, and yes, it does seem a bit funny. I met a guy once
> > who said he believed and accepted as truth everything about "all religions". I
> > never actually asked him to qualify that statement, but I did notice through
> > conversation that he did believe in faiths holding teachings that differ vastly
> > over who Christ actually is. Maybe interestingly enough, his first name was
> > "Chance".
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> I consider myself to be a Christian, but I have a hard time believing
> that anybody who does not believe just as I do is bound for hell... I
> don't think that a God, knowing the confused nature of mankind, would
> allow this to happen...
I'm not quite like that either. At the same time, I don't believe that every
person becomes saved either.
<snipped middle of thought out response>
> As for individual religions, well, I have lots of questions, but I think
> I'll let them go unanswered. It is up to every man, woman and child to
> best decide what they think is right, and hope they choose right... I'm
> not so sure that most religion don't follow the same party lines,
> whether they admit it or not... whatever.
Yeah, I can't answer them all either, as I didn't invent the mechanism of
salvation - that's God's work. I don't claim to have the corner market on
truth. Yet there are ideas in various religions that are mutually and
irreconcilably opposed. But I think someday we'll all be quite surprised who's
on which side of the "great gulf fixed".
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