Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tblake@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Thomas Blake) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Do Jews need Jesus? Message-ID: Date: 2 May 91 09:06:50 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton Lines: 16 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article benning@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes: > We have Nicodemus as an example. Here was a man who surly followed the Law > as close as any man could. He was able to recognize that Jesus was a man > sent from G-d, and came to talk to him one night. When Jesus and Nicodemus > began to engage in conversation, Jesus didn't say "keep up the good deeds > and you're a shoe in." But he did say to a man who was in tune with the > Spirit, that he needed a total rebirth of his soul and spirit. And Nicodemus > obeyed. Did Jesus say to Nicodemus "And if you're ever gonna get into heaven you'll have to start worshipping *me*"? He did talk about being born again, but I don't remember anything about becoming a disciple or anything like that. Tom Blake SUNY-Binghamton