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From: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith)
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Subject: David Harwood on religious experience...
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>> I do believe we have here some of that "evidence" we were looking for.
>> Would you care to describe further that road to Damascus experience
>> of yours?  Do you consider this the foundation for your belief?

> For the apostles, the 'evidence' that Jesus is the Christ is
> the self-revelation of God, as I've said before.....

I asked you what YOUR experiences where... not what I can read with my
own two eyes in the Bible.  I don't suppose you have any such experiences
to relate, do you?  Not much of a witness then are you?

> If you would like to understand that this experience is not
> simply 'subjective', but is confirmed again and again, so that it
> has inter-subjective reality, then you might read, for example, the
> passage on the "Origin of Faith", pp370-381, of On_Being_a_Christian
> by Hans Kung....

I asked YOU WHAT YOUR experiences where.

> Frankly, I feel that most theology is 'abstract gibberish'.

AT LAST!  We agree on something!
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