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- From: phydeaux@guru.med.cornell.edu (Dave Weingart)
- Subject: Re: Will the -REAL- Christians please stand up? Was: What did Judas betray?
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- Tom Epstein [415] (tke@shep.att.com) wrote:
- : that skeptics *must* assume that "somebody who claims to be a christian _is_ a
- : christian" is not easy to defend. If one wishes to hold the skeptical line, the
- : best conclusion one can draw from anyone's claim of Christianity (unless other
- : evidence is offered) is, "This person claims to be a Christian."
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- : An ancient debate within the Church has been centered on the question of exactly
- : how one should define the word, "Christian;" both as it is used as a noun and an
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- I might venture to add that as a non-Christian, my basic first-cut definition
- of "Christian" as a noun would be "One who believe Jesus to be the messiah," and
- then take it from there (Jews for Jesus, by my reckoning, are not Jewish, but
- Christian.
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- After this basic cut, you can get into the good-Christian, bad-Christian
- definitions...of which I have neither the knowledge nor the desire to have a
- go at...
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