Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Sorry folks, it's NOT all relative. Message-ID: Date: 8 Nov 90 03:20:23 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , davidh@tektronix.tek.com (David L Hatcher) writes: > Having given these direction, he slew himself. In the event, each > captain set himself up as the Vazirs successor, and the Christians were > split up into many sects at enmity with one anther, even as the Vazir > had intended. But the malicious scheme did not altogether succeed, as > one faithful band cleaved the the name of "Ahmad"(see John 14:26) > mentioned in the Gospel, and were thus saved from sharing the ruin > of the rest. Ok, I saw John 14:26. It says But the "paraclete" (the Holy Spirit who the Father will send in my [Jesu's] name) will teach you all things and will bring to your remembrance everything I said to you. I can't find anything in this (or the Greek) that looks or sounds like "Ahmad". The reference seems to be the key point of the argument that the story exhibits some idea of the Holy Spirit. I imagine that quite a few people will be every bit as clueless here as I am; how is "Ahmad" related to that verse? -- The problem about real life is that moving one's knight to QB3 may always be replied to with a lob across the net. --Alasdair Macintyre.