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- From: cscope@camelot.bradley.edu (William Twentyman)
- Subject: >>>>Was Jesus the Anti-Christ?
- Message-ID: <cscope.728186655@camelot>
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- Organization: Bradley University
- Date: 28 Jan 93 02:04:15 GMT
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- References: <cscope.727987530@camelot> <1993Jan26.082913.19319@abo.fi> <cscope.728067684@camelot> <1993Jan27.093139.22347@abo.fi>
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- In <1993Jan27.093139.22347@abo.fi> MANDTBACKA@FINABO.ABO.FI (Mats Andtbacka) writes:
- >In <cscope.728067684@camelot> cscope@camelot.bradley.edu writes:
- >> In <1993Jan26.082913.19319@abo.fi> MANDTBACKA@FINABO.ABO.FI
- >> (Mats Andtbacka) writes:
- >>>In <cscope.727987530@camelot> cscope@camelot.bradley.edu writes:
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- >(Staggering deletions)
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- >> I don't gain anything. But it is disturbing that I was able to see the problem
- >> with that quote almost immediately, yet I never hear anything about why Jesus
- >> couldn't have been the Anti-christ, sent to steer Jews away from God. (I still
- >> haven't come to any conclusion about his/its existence.)
-
- > *Never*? Odd - I would've thought at least somebody had said
- >something down most any line you could think of on this subject in the
- >past two millennia or so... If one just bothered to dig through those
- >mountains of texts to try and find it, that is.
-
- Considering that I'm relatively new at this (didn't start doubting
- seriously until about a year ago and didn't start exploring Christianity
- to determine whether or not I feel I can ever believe in it until this
- summer), I haven't had much time to dig through all those texts.
-
- > The "problem" (if we have one here) is, if you're going to doubt
- >any theory that can be doubted - and with a proper conspiracy theory
- >*anything* can be doubted - you're gonna end up doubting a *lot*. So you
- >need to decide the criterions of doubt: What's it gonna take to get you
- >to stop / start believing in things?
-
- I believe in a lot of things, it's just that I'm trying to find out
- whether I'm missing something blantantly obvious that does prove (at
- least within the Christian belief system) that Jesus could not have
- been the anti-christ.
-
- As for a way to keep me from doubting something, sound theories or
- empirical evidence will always work.
-
- > If more-or-less arbitrary conspiracy theories don't cut it, then
- >this idea of yours can easily be dismissed offhand. But in that case, so
- >can likely all of Xianity, and most other religions as well... Which is
- >one of the reasons I'm an atheist, myself. As for why other people use
- >other, apparently sometimes self-contradictory, criteria - I wish I
- >knew.
-
- The main reason I am concerned is that I was brought up as a Christian
- and am struggling with that first. If I decide to reject Christianity
- completely, then I will worry about what, if any, religion to adopt.
-
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