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Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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Sun, 5 Mar 2000 05:39:53 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera.=StopSpam=com
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Peter Callaway wrote:
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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?
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> 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.
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
one you're referring to. You can't even be sure he lived, you've just
decided to believe it. Just like you decided to believe in his godhood.
That's fine, I'm happy for you, but stop trying to speak
authoritatively, will you? It's so tiresome.
"god said it. I believe it. That settles it. (I'm gullible)"
The parenthetical PS is what I always think to myself on seeing that
bumpersticker.
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| (...) Why should I? This is something I strongly believe in which is being challenged in a civil discussion, so lugnet.off-topic.debate T&C's notwithstanding, I'm entitled to speak. You're bored with it? Don't read it. (...) Not true, at Bible (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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