Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!houxm!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:aeq
From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Christ as good man
Message-ID: <1463@pucc-h>
Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 04:15:15 EST
Article-I.D.: pucc-h.1463
Posted: Fri Nov  9 04:15:15 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Nov-84 20:21:14 EST
References: <1899@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Organization: High-level Operating Systems Experts [HOSE], Inc.
Lines: 28

From ucla-cs!ellen:

> Christ must have been a really good man and teacher, tho' i see him as being
> as much the son of god as any other person and animal and plant is the child
> of the creator....

I hate to disagree with a portion of an article which praised others for
showing some Christian love, but I feel I should point out a couple of things
(borrowed from "Mere Christianity"):

1. In some religions, it would indeed be nothing surprising for someone to say
   that he was the son of God, or one with God.  But in Judaism, things are
   not that way, and were not at the time of Jesus's ministry, and never have
   been; Judaism makes a strict differentiation between God and His creation
   (Yiri, correct me in case this is inaccurate).  When Jesus appeared among
   the Jews, applying phrases like "Son of God" and "Son of Man" (which I guess
   to be an allusion to chapter 7 of Daniel), He was calling Himself a lot more
   than any pantheistic "son of God".
2. If Jesus was not who and what He said He was, then He was either a world-
   class liar or else a world-class megalomaniac.  Funny, though, that demons
   thought He was what He said, and how people later staked their lives on
   their faith in Him.

-- 
-- Jeff Sargent
{decvax|harpo|ihnp4|inuxc|seismo|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq
"I'm not asking for anyone's bleeding charity."
"Then do.  At once.  Ask for the Bleeding Charity."