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From: kiki@isieng.UUCP (Kiki Herbst)
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Subject: Re: Feminism and Abortion
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Date: Tue, 30-Sep-86 13:49:36 EDT
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In article <5833@ut-sally.UUCP> raghu@sally.utexas.edu.UUCP (Raghu Ramakrishnan) writes:
>>The unique contribution of the Christian gospel is that it makes us a
>>people who are more interested in your rights than in my rights.  We should
>>all be as the Samaritan who was willing to risk life and property for the
>>sake of another.
>>
>>Tom Albrecht
>>"Reformata, semper reformanda"
>
>Why?
>
>raghu

When one becomes a Christian many changes occur in his or her life.  The biggest
change is that God becomes the center of the person's life rather than self
being the center.  As the relationship between God and man continues, man 
becomes transformed into the image of God.  God himself is love.  After Christ's
life on earth, Christians are giving just *one* new commandment as shown in
John 13:34 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even
as I have loved you."  This commandment lives in our heart's and is powered
by God himself.  We see many examples of this attitude that was shown in the
life of Christ and documented in the Bible.  One such example is the role of
Christ as a servant where he is shown washing the feet of his disciples. 
He shows us that we should put the needs of others before our own.  Jesus
himself said that "there is no greater love than this that a man would lay down
his life for a friend."  As we develop our life with God as the center, we begin
to approach life in a different way: The way God approaches life.  Now imagine
the ideal situation where everybody reacted to life in this way, wanted the
best for others.  If everybody lived their lives in that way, I think we'd
have a pretty good idea of what heaven is like.

Kiki