Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: johnw@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Warren) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Jesus was some guy. Message-ID: Date: 22 Oct 90 06:28:05 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 20 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article jag@cello.mc.duke.edu (John Graves) writes: >But in either case after some reflection I decided that >if the use of the term Jesus instead of Christ was to imply worship of >the man Jesus then I could not use such a term. I do not worship Jesus. >I do not believe Jesus was infallible. I do not believe that Jesus was >right about the coming end of the world. I certainly do not believe that >everything written about Jesus in the Bible is truthful. Is this because of what Jesus said (Luke 21, I believe, or maybe Luke 17): "Surely this generation shall not pass away before all this [i.e., the end] takes place."? Well, "this generation" didn't mean the generation Jesus was living in. It meant the generation which sees all the end times signs he was talking about. Read the passage again and you'll see that Jesus said "When you see all this taking place. . ." before he said, "Surely this generation. . .", which leaves the uncertainty there about when He would return. He Himself would not say when, or which generation it was to be. John Warren "Into the narrow lanes, I can't stumble or stay put..." -- Dylan