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From: devonst@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Re: one more time...
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Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 10:03:59 EDT
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gsmith@brahms.UUCP (Gene Ward Smith) writes:
>In article <3071@sdcrdcf.UUCP> alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak) writes:
>
>>It seems logical to me, based on both the entomology of the word, and on
>>the most basic of Christian beliefs that, in a nutshell:
>
>>	A person who really believes that Jesus Christ is God is
>>	a Christian.  One who does not, is not.
>
>>One piece of data to throw into the fray is that in 1979, only 47% 
>>of Dutch Catholics thought that Christ is the Son of God. 
>
>    Based on the above, I might conclude that 53% of Dutch Catholics
>are not Christians, whereas many Hindus are. This seems too much at
		     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^!?
>variance with normal usage, if so.
>
>ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720

I don't know any Hindus who could, in good faith, acknowledge as being true
the statements in the Apostle's Creed.  Hindus might believe that Jesus
Christ was a good teacher, as many other religions do, but would have
difficulty declaring that He is the only-begotten Son of God whose death was
an atoning sacrifice for the sins of His people and is the ONLY way to the
Father.

They might find Jesus' declaration that "no man comes to the Father except
by me" to be a little arrogant and bigoted.

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Tom Albrecht