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   From: bleahcim49@frontiernet.net   
      
   On 17 Jan 2004 19:45:29 -0800, EliyahuSilver613@hotmail.com (Eliyahu)   
   wrote:   
   >A ruler who's origin is "from eternity".   
   >Has to be God, doesn't he?   
   >How else can he be from "eternity"?   
      
   We are all from eternity.......  I am the I am.  Before abraham was I   
   am.  All things are made from light and light is eternal.   
   Reincarnation was a teaching of Christ and the jewish religions.   
       But agreed Jesus was not God.  Christ says, " I am a man like any   
   man.  Anything I do you can all do."  So if you can't walk on water   
   neither did Christ.   
      You are not the only ones who have found it absurd to   
   equate Jesus with "God".   
       Of course the TRUTH is that Jesus was simply a MAN.   
   Even his earliest followers are quoted in Acts 2:22 as stating   
   that he was simply "a man singled out by God" . It was   
   only after his character was merged with the incarnate savior   
   god Christos of Paul's version of the  Mystery Religion that the   
   GENTILE Christians started to explore ways of stating that Jesus was   
   some sort of divine being.   
      
                  In the mind of Christ,   
                                Michael   
      
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