Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!AUVM!JIM From: JIM@AUVM (Jim McIntosh) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia Subject: Re: Good Witches Message-ID: <90015.121426JIM@AUVM.BITNET> Date: 15 Jan 90 17:14:26 GMT References: Sender: Practical Christian Life Reply-To: Practical Christian Life Organization: The American University - University Computing Center Lines: 28 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway In article , "Mark V. McGrew" says: >Before Abraham, God spoke directly, in a mystical way possibly. To >the Jews, God spoke through the Law and the Prophets. For us, God >speaks through Jesus Christ. Each is superior to the one before, and >anyone who rejects the superior is making a grave (consider the term) >mistake. Read Hebrews. It explains it really well. Oh, I agree, Jesus is the way, but I have noticed that each stage in this religious progression involves most people accepting what is passed to them by their parents and rejecting the new. Most of the world rejected Abraham and the prophets and kept their older religions. The Jews rejected Jesus and kept only Yahweh. We reject Reverend Sun Young Moon (is that his name?) and keep Jesus. Each stage feels comfortable with its level of contact with God, and hesitates to move on to the new one. We do the same (and rightly so), so I think we should be able to understand those who fear to move to our level of understanding. It is a problem of fear (what if the new level is a misunderstanding of God?), of comfort (I feel comfortable with what my parents did) and of believing scriptures which may be true when written but now have different interpretation (like Exodus 20:2-3, "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.") ------- Jim McIntosh (JIM@AUVM) The American University Washington DC 20016 USA