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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:29:06 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan2.000003.16316@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>, arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
- > "How can I tell who is a Christian? You don't seem to agree on what a
- > Christian is."
- >
- Long back-and-forth discussion on the non-definitive nature of the topic
- deleted.
- ..
- >
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- > -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)
- >
- > Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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- Hey, just because the definition has not shown up on these groups, and
- they fight about it doesn't mean there isn't a practical one. It has
- often been claimed that the whole shtick is in John 3:16 "For God so
- loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
- believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
-
- Everything else is bells and whistles - if you can believe there
- is a God - who had only this one Son, - and this Son actually did
- his thing - well then you've got the immortality prize. If you
- can swallow this, anything goes. And the believers milk it for
- all it's worth. No wonder there is such controversy.
-
- Wm. Hathaway
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