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From: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Christians choose to believe in the Immaculate Conception of Mary
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Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 16:37:45 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  3 16:37:45 1985
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Summary: 

>> The Immaculate Conception is neither the center, nor the focus of
>> belief in God, Jesus is the focus.  [Mike Andrews]
>
>You've just stated that Jesus *is* God!  What then does it *mean* to
>say that the focus isn't *God* but Jesus?  [Michael McNeil]
>

It appears that Mr. Andrews made a common error in punctuation.  He
should have written:

"The Immaculate Conception is neither the center nor the focus of
belief in God; Jesus is the focus."  

Center and focus are in this case parallel words both modified by
the prepositional phrase "of belief in God."  To put it more wordily,
he was saying "the Immaculate Conception is not the center of belief
in God, neither is it the focus of belief in God; Jesus is the focus
of belief in God."  

(And you all wondered why English teachers and editors are so picky
about where commas go!  See what a trouble such a little mark can 
cause?)  :-)

		charli