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From: rap@oliven.UUCP (Robert A. Pease)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: The cheese connection
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Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 15:50:45 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 15 15:50:45 1985
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>Christ, however, claimed to be a Teacher from God and while many dispute
>it, He claimed to be God.  He certainly never avoided teaching the
>masses and the Bible tries to make it very clear that the miracles
>atributed to Him were not ignorant people's dumb mistakes (i.e. the man
>in the whole who hadn't spoken for 40 some odd years being healed by
>Brian stepping on his foot and making him scream.)  The Bible teaches
>that Christ was NOT just a popular teacher whose reputation was based
>rumors and stories, the Bible claims that He had authority from God,
>that He came from God, and that He was God.
> [ From: ix415@sdcc6.UUCP (Rick Frey) ]

I'm sorry, what I remember is not that Jesus claimed to  be  God,  but
that  he was the "Son of Man" and the "Son of God" and he claimed that
"I and the Father are one".  Now I don't interpet the last as  meaning
that they were identical, but united.  After all, the part about a man
and his wife leaving their parents and joining together "as one flesh"
was a figure of speech too.
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					Robert A. Pease
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