Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: harling@pictel.uucp (Dan Harling) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Last moment (death bed) Message-ID: Date: 14 Apr 91 05:16:17 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: PictureTel Corporation Lines: 38 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (matt ?) says: > In article , > credmond@watmath.waterloo.edu (Chris Redmond) says: > > >As someone said earlier in the discussion: if we are saved we show it. > >And I say, that's not a side effect, that's the PURPOSE of being saved. > > Why then do people assume I'm a Christian? Just because I don't > drink, smoke, or live a life of wild parties and sex? Because if > someone does me wrong that I just say "he does the wrong to himself, > not to me." ? That's common sense stuff. You don't need to believe > in God to live like that. It's easy. > > matt I was brought up in a Christian home, but the church that my parents brought me to every Sunday morning did not seem very important to me until my high school years. Before then, I felt very much like you do: it does make sense to live that way, and I did. One day (after my attention span had developed sufficiently), I started paying a little more attention to what my pastor was talking about, and I heard him explaining WHY the things I already believed in were true. I spent a long time thinking about what I was hearing, and found that it made sense. I am glad that you have found this much of the truth; it seems we are following the same path. But I hope you will not be satisfied with these answers without finding out what the questions are. With love (and encouragement), ______________________________________________________________________ Daniel A. Harling PictureTel, Inc. Rockport, MA Peabody, MA Opinions expressed herein are mine, all mine!!!