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- From: MANDTBACKA@FINABO.ABO.FI (Mats Andtbacka)
- Subject: Re: >>>>Was Jesus the Anti-Christ?
- In-Reply-To: cscope@camelot.bradley.edu's message of 28 Jan 93 02:04:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.081415.24870@abo.fi>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 08:14:15 GMT
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- In <cscope.728186655@camelot> cscope@camelot.bradley.edu writes:
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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:
-
- (and so on a couple levels of attribution)
-
- >>(Staggering deletions)
- >
- >> *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.
-
- Yeh, well, I wouldn't bother if I were you; I think one could
- easily find sufficient logical reason to dump Xianity anyway. Getting
- into mysticism would take a lifetime or two, and I doubt it would lead
- much anywhere - unless you *like* that sort of thing... ;-)
-
- > 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.
-
- If such a thing existed (and I doubt it), then it would probably
- be very easy to reinterpret the bible passage in question to cover it
- up. That's what's happened with most of the OT, y'know.
-
- > As for a way to keep me from doubting something, sound theories or
- > empirical evidence will always work.
-
- Well, that does it for Xianity, then. ;-)
-
- > 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.
-
- Best of luck, but try sucking on this: Does one need a religion
- for anything, and in that case what, and why? Just to get you thinking a
- bit down my lines...
-
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- If you think I'm gonna be responsible for this crap, you're madder than I am.
- "No logic here today / Do as you got to, Go your own way..." -- G 'n' R
- ===>The Truth is still the Truth, even if you choose to ignore it.<===
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