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- From: SL500000@brownvm.brown.edu (Robert Mathiesen)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: contradiction?
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:40:35 EST
- Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island USA
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- In article <C1JCqn.7A6@news.iastate.edu>, txdv1@isuvax.iastate.edu (Angela KAY
- Rolling) said:
- >
- >>There is an irreconcilable logical contradiction between plain sense of
- >>the saying of Jesus recorded in Matthew 12:30 = Luke 11:23 (He that is not
- >>with me is against me) and Mark 9:40 (For he that is not against us is on
- >>our part). Any questions?
-
- >Yes. How is this a contradiction?
-
- Yes. Posit the existence of a Pagan who is neither "for" nor "against"
- Christianity, and posit further a Christian who wishes to determine
- whether to treat that Pagan as "for" or as "against" (the perils of
- dichotomous thinking, there!), and proposes to make his decision on the
- basis of Biblical principles. By one variant of the saying, the Pagan
- is to be counted as "for," by the other as "against." It's pretty clear
- that the variant prepositions for "for" in the original Greek [meta vs.
- hyper] don't carry a significant difference in meaning here.
- -- Robert
-