Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: mib@geech.ai.mit.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Sorry folks, it's NOT all relative. Message-ID: Date: 6 Nov 90 03:06:35 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: /home/fsf/mib/.organization Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article timh@ide.com (Tim Hoogasian) writes: it's like this, David. if i tell you that carrots are the only way to get nutrition, then you (i'm sure) can prove that's false. however, in the question of the Bible being the Word of God, there's no such question. it's either "true" or "false". if it's true, then there's no room for any other "path" to God. all religions can't be "true." they're mutually exclusive - Christianity certainly is exclusive of worldly "religions." (tell me, if *men* authored the Bible, then why should it be so exclusive of everything else? that's hardly characteristic of worldly religions...) I have a real problem with this phrase "worldly religions". Islam is easily as exclusive as Christianity. Methinks Tim has never read the Qu'ran. Read Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Ezra, and Nehemiah if you want a picture of how exclusive Judaism is. Men *did* write the Bible. Sorry. -- Michael I. Bushnell \ This above all; to thine own self be true LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE \ And it must follow, as the night the day, mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu /\ Thou canst not be false to any man. CARPE DIEM / \ Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!