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Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 5 Mar 2000 05:12:52 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ben Roller writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Peter Callaway writes:
> > Following Jesus IS a prereq for being a Christian. Jesus
> > called God "Father" and "He", so you draw your own conclusions.
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> Jesus never called God She as far as we know. He never drove a car either.
> Does that mean that just because He didn't do it that we can't do it (along
> with the stuff that He did do) too?
I think this is getting a tad silly. The focus isn't on what Jesus didn't do.
It's on what he did do. He did call God "Father" and "He", and therefore we
(Christians) do too.
Pete Callaway
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Oh stop. Give up will you? You don't know for sure what Jesus did or didn't do or what he did or didn't say. You can only take the word of people dead almost 2000 years now, who recorded things in languages many translations removed from the (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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| (...) I'm not saying that referring to God as masculine is wrong, just that doing otherwise is equally right. You're implying that doing otherwise means that someone is not a Christian. That's the silly part IMHO. Ben Roller (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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| (...) Jesus never called God She as far as we know. He never drove a car either. Does that mean that just because He didn't do it that we can't do it (along with the stuff that He did do) too? (...) So wouldn't "They" be more appropriate for us that (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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