Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: marlatt@spot.Colorado.EDU (MARLATT STUART WARREN) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: How to get to Heaven Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 91 08:39:37 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 25 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu >Ed Ramsey writes: >Belief systems are about philosophies and ideas. Christianity is >about a person and our relationship *to* that person. >That, sir, is an idea. > >And if you observe that idea methodically, you have something like >a philosophy. Substitute, for a moment, 'marriage' for 'Christianity' in the above posting. Certainly, we might construe that the subject of marriage may be a focus for philosophy, but if I were to say that my relationship with my wife was simply a philosophy I follow, I think she might object. Christianity _is_ relationship. Communication. God and man in communion with one another. A lifetime of learning to know this _Person_ with whom you are bonded. Perhaps not so equally as marriage - Lordship is still there - but certainly far, far more than just a set of rules and ideas to be methodically implemented. -- s.w. marlatt <>< and *(:-)