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From: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
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Subject: Re: The Shroud of Turin
Message-ID: <Apr.18.03.28.18.1991.7392@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 91 07:28:21 GMT
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In article <Apr.17.02.50.24.1991.8633@athos.rutgers.edu> llo@nuchat.sccsi.com (Larry Overacker) writes:

   I understand others may feel differently.  I get really annoyed
   with people who contend that this practice isn't Christian.  It is
   and it works for me and for millions over the last 2000 years.
   Other paths to Jesus work for other people.  We should not force
   specific roads to Jesus on anyone.  Thomas needed to touch Jesus.
   Others did not.  The other were not better or worse believers
   because the did not touch Jesus.

Didn't Jesus himself say that it was better for those who did not
touch?  Didn't he praise the faith of those who did not need to touch,
while allowing Thomas to?  It seems to me that Thomas was not *wrong*,
but there is a clear division made between his faith and that of the
other ten.  Are we not to strive for the faith of those other
apostles?

	-mib