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   From: perfectlyInnocent@as-if.com   
      
   I believe in the New Testament experience. You just have a theory that   
   is virtually identical with the beliefs of those God destroyed in the   
   destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD.   
      
   And you should know within yourself that the New Testament Witness is   
   true:   
      
   "Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you,   
   which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this   
   gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to   
   you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.   
   For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that   
   Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was   
   buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the   
   Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve.   
   After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at   
   the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen   
   asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, and last   
   of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.   
   For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be   
   called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the   
   grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without   
   effect. No, I worked harder than all of them--yet not I, but the grace   
   of God that was with me. Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what   
   we preach, and this is what you believed." 1 Corinthians 15:1-11.   
      
   Eugene Shubert   
   http://www.everythingimportant.org   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)