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From: cc100jr@gitpyr.UUCP (Joel Rives)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Re: one more time... (not again!)
Message-ID: <2236@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Sep-86 19:14:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.2236
Posted: Tue Sep  9 19:14:46 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Sep-86 06:53:12 EDT
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Reply-To: cc100jr@gitpyr.UUCP (Joel Rives)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia
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In article <3342@umcp-cs.UUCP> mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) writes:
>M. Terribile writes:
>>> ... All of Christianity rests on a
>>> single point: the Resurrection.  If Jesus did not rise from the dead after
>>> a brutal crucifixion, there is no point whatsoever in Christianity....
>
>And Mike Huybensz replies:
>>Very seldom will I speak in favor of Christianity, but the above is downright
>>stupid.  While the resurrection might be a key point of christian theology,
>>it has nothing to do with Christian morality (some of which even I value.)
>
           [First paragraph here]
>
>It should be noted that the ressurection centrality is an important feature
>of the Acts.  The morality problems argued out there wouldn't be compelling
>at all were it not for their cause in the bringing together of these
>different groups through preaching of the ressurection.  THe notion
>persisted, finding explicit recognition in a number of early reformation
>hymns.  In _Christe ist Erstanden_ we have the line "If Christ were not
>arisen, then death were still our prison."
>
It is rather difficult to determine exactly what you are trying to say here.
Could you, perhaps, state this again?            

-- 
Joel Rives

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