Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: muts@fysak.fys.ruu.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: New Age Message-ID: Date: 9 Jun 91 18:38:07 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht Lines: 43 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu amadeus@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik) writes: >In article >iwilliam@au.oracle.com (Ian Williams) writes: >>What does everyone think about the amount of New Age stuff that gets left >>around the news net these days.. >>It saddens my heart to see people so searching, and yet so lost.. >> >>Anyone got any comments about it.. >Yes, I do. >Why do you think that someone who isn't following *your* path is lost? >Each creature has his or her own purpose on this planet, and any one >person's lifestyle and beliefs may not work for any one other person. This is your opinion which you are completely entitled to have, but you may have noticed that this is not talk.misc.religion, but soc.culture.christian, and that (most) christians are chrstian not because they believe it is *my* path, but Gods path; otherwise I would not be a christian. And I believe that it is not my purpose, but Gods purpose with our lives which is important. I don't follow *my* path anymore (at least I try not to). >I understand that witnessing is a vital part of many sects of >Christianity, "fishers of men" and all that, but Paganism and >Witchcraft don't work that way. (Okay, there may be Joe Blow >self-styled "Pagan" down the street who does, but that's not how most >of us operate. We believe that if someone belongs in a certain faith, >he or she will find it of their own accord.) Which is logical: as according to your faith there are many ways to God or the Divine or however you name it, Jesus sais He is the only way to God; because I want as much as you that people find the way to God and not be lost, according to your faith people can find our themselves, but according to my faith God has to point people to the only way, which He often does through people. -- Peter Mutsaers email: muts@fys.ruu.nl Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht muts@fysak.fys.ruu.nl Princetonplein 5 tel: (+31)-(0)30-533880 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands