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Re: Problems with Christianity
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:54:54 GMT
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SRC wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> > SRC wrote:
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> > > 2. Christ's significance isn't limited to just what He said and did.
> > > You speak of Him in the past tense - it's not what He did - it's who He IS.
> > > Christmas and Easter are celebrations of the three most significant events
> > > in history - Christ's birth
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> <snipped long references about history of Christmas>
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> My point was that Christ's significance is not limited to what He said and
> did 2000 years ago, but also who He IS - today - present tense - as in
> alive and risen from the dead. The history of our celebrations on Dec.
> 25th is a different discussion.
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> SRC
Pardon me but, are you really saying that Jesus is living here with us
_today_? Like Elvis? I really can't understand how otherwise reasonable
men/women became such unrealistic at times.
Selçuk
P.S. Actually you can be true. Two infamous Turkish men had already
started (one is long ago) to claim himselves as Jesus the messiah. It's
particularly funny that one is the assassin of the pope Jean Paul, and
the other is a former senator from a party based on fundamentalist
Islam..:-)
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| (...) No, silly, not like Elvis. For one thing, Jesus doesn't have a secret love nest penthouse suite at the top of a famous, but unnamed Las Vegas hotel, and for another thing, Jesus has never been abducted by aliens and had his brain removed, CAT (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) <snipped long references about history of Christmas> My point was that Christ's significance is not limited to what He said and did 2000 years ago, but also who He IS - today - present tense - as in alive and risen from the dead. The history (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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