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- Newsgroups: soc.religion.quaker
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!samk
- From: samk@microsoft.com (Sam Kho)
- Subject: Re: quakerism, Christianity, etc
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.203917.23636@microsoft.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:39:17 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <2420@sousa.tay.dec.com> <1993Jan23.130709.1007@microsoft.com> <1k1n7mINN5c7@borg.cs.unc.edu>
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- >|> really? the historical Christ said:
- >|>
- >|> I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, BUT
- >|> by me. (John 14:6, emphasis mine)
- >|>
- >Such a view denies the light of God to all but a small fraction of the people
- >who have ever lived on this planet. Either Jesus was misquoted on this one,
- >or he meant it different than it sounds...or the words were ill-said--the idea
- >seemingly espoused is unworthy of the goodness I'd like to associate with the
- >person of Jesus.
- >
-
- but on what do you base those assertions? why can't u consider that Jesus
- did say those words and did mean it as it sounds? why do u associate
- "goodness" with Jesus? maybe the entire Sermon on the Mount was a
- misquotation too.
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- - sam -
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