Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: atterlep@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Alan T. Terlep) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Who's a Christian and who isn't, anyway? Message-ID: Date: 18 Sep 90 09:06:07 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI Lines: 25 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article kilroy@mimsy.umd.edu (An Appalachian Hillybilly) writes: >Criteria for distinguishing Real Christians (tm) from Cheap Imitations: > > a) Do they recognise The Right And True Scriptures? > b) Do they believe Weird Things About History? > c) Is their theology Correct? >a) I am curious to know if I should throw out people who include the > Apocrypha, or if they should throw me out? Somebody's got to go... Why does someone have to go? Belief or non-belief in the Apocrypha has nothing to do with loving your neighbor. That's the point of Christianity-- that a person with faith and love in his/her heart is pleasing to God. >"Christianity isn't about `us' and `them' -- that's the whole point." > -- Larry Dungan That's right. And since Christianity isn't about "us" and "them", and is, in fact, based on treating us and them the same, why are we trying to figure out which is which? -- Alan Terlep "Violence is the last refuge of the Oakland University, Rochester, MI incompetent." atterlep@vela.acs.oakland.edu --Isaac Asimov