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- From: rlg@omni (Randy garrett)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Who is Christian - a simple answer
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 17:43:42 GMT
- Organization: IDA, Alexandria, VA
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- : You appear to have neglected the possibility that he sincerely
- : believed he was divine, but was mistaken. That makes him a
- : person in error, not a liar. It also makes him no hypocrite,
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- This is a good argument and I agree with many of your points.
- There are indeed many people walking around today claiming to
- be divine, whom I would not characterize as crazy (Looney, yes;
- clinically crazy, probably not).
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- :
- : That only shows how silly *you* are. If someone says we are to
- : forgive our enemies, and also holds some nutty theological ideas,
- : you're going to "put no credence" in forgiving your enemies?
- :
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- And even clocks that are stopped have the right time twice
- a day (provided they're not on military time). Anyone can
- accidentally be right. The problem is, why should I believe
- what they say. Since a large portion of Jesus's pronouncements
- are predicated on His divinity, He may (as you say) be accidentally
- right from time to time, but how can I know which times are right
- and which aren't. To go back to the myriad of people claiming
- to be divine, and also making lots of concommitant claims as a
- result -- I don't pay much attention to them either. Maybe,
- you're right and I am just being silly ...
-
- :
- : |>
- : |> Or
- : |> We're in a heap of trouble if what He claimed was true ...
- :
- : You mean you can speak for him? Now who's the nut?
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- Only in the respect that I can repeat what is said in the Bible.
- This appears to be the most reliable source of what Jesus says.
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