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From: ir278@sdcc6.UUCP (Paul Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Arguments from Silence: Golden or just Yellow?
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Date: Sun, 31-Mar-85 19:11:39 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 31 19:11:39 1985
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Reply-To: ir278@sdcc6.UUCP (Paul Anderson)
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I can't believe all you people! Arguing over what is or
isn't "Christian". Many people hold that the Jews killed
Jesus. He rose, right? It looks like he's about to get
killed again, not by crucifiction, but by being forgotten.

This Mr. Black, with whose history I am not entirely familiar,
is just a man, like everyone else. People can acclaim what he says,
people who call themselves "Christian", but that doesn't make what
he says or does "Christian"...it just makes these people idolators.
A "Christian" is a follower of Christ, right? So it doesn't matter
what Black, Falwell, Hitler, etc. say: what Jesus teaches us is
the "Christian" thing to do. 

And what he teaches isn't very difficult...keep the commandments
(there are only 10, each can be summed up in a sentence, although
they can be translated differently . . . i.e. "don't (thou shall not)
steal" = "don't steal someone's dignity"), be honest, earnest, and
nice to people, even if they aren't nice to you. People who call
themselves "Christian" tend to violate these rules the most greatly...
do you think Jesus likes that? You heard what he said about hypocrites.

Stick with God. Be nice. Be charitable. Don't worry about people
like Black, inquisitions, anti-semitism, these folks will get their
chance to shape up, and you can help them, but if they don't, they'll
get theirs...Jesus has already promised us (Revelations) that things
will be rough, but it'll all come out for the better in the end.

Paul Anderson
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