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Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 17:41:33 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ben Roller writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Peter Callaway writes:
> > on this issue I think we're all pretty universally in agreement.
> I think I spoke too soon, and you are right, but my point was just that
> there are many kinds of Christians. Again though, I think you're right.
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> (snipping here, sorry if I cut too much)
> > > ...you are part of the family whether you want to be or not...
> > > Choosing to accept it is not a universal Christian belief.
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> > Sorry, but I disagree. Jesus did say "Whoever is not for me is against me".
> And that "whoever is not against you is for you" so I guess that just leaves
> the people that are in the middle. They are both for and against at the same
> time...kinda like being in the middle.
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> > getting back in the good books.
> LOL at your choice of words here. :)
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> > God didn't abandon us, we abandonned him.
> No, we got kicked out for breaking a rule. God, as I interpret the story,
> didn't want Adam to become immortal so He put him out of reach of the other
> tree. One could even say that God lied to them and that the serpent was the
> one telling the truth (God said they'd die, but they didn't).
Ah, to this I would refer again to the scripture which says "A thousand years
is but a day to the Lord." If this is literal, then God was truthful. No
human after Adam has lived to be 1000, eh? =)
Aaron
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| (...) I think I spoke too soon, and you are right, but my point was just that there are many kinds of Christians. Again though, I think you're right. (snipping here, sorry if I cut too much) (...) And that "whoever is not against you is for you" so (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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