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   From: ahnemann@optonline.net   
      
   "Siwel Naph"  wrote in message   
   news:Xns96E4CAE052D2Bsiwelnaph@212.67.96.135...   
   >   
   > M.C. is the core of Christianity: the beliefs common to (almost) all   
   > Christians at all times. But that core has been surrounded by RADICALLY   
   > different secondary beliefs... which is why I ask:   
   >   
   > What if a war is under way between two or more COMPETING versions of   
   > M.C.?   
      
   Then it's no longer 'mere' is it?  And I would suggest that even Lewis'   
   'mere' isn't- or will be found so radical beyond the Wardrobe as to be like   
   nothing dreamed in this life.   
      
   >   
   > What if you're a minority denomination, a homosexual, a Jew, a black, a   
   > Muslim, a woman, etc?   
   >   
   Huan wrote:   
   >> Mere Christians won't care about who I used to be.   
      
    SN wrote:   
   > You mean you could STOP being black, Jewish, homosexual, female, etc if   
   > necessary?   
      
   On becoming real persons:  Read what Lewis says about it in _The Weight of   
   Glory_, _Christian Reflections_, _The Problem of Pain_, etc.  All summed up,   
   perhaps, in WoG page 7:   
   "Our whole destiny seems to lie in the opposite direction, in being as   
   little as possible ourselves, in acquiring a fragrance that is not our own   
   but borrowed, in becoming clean mirrors filled with the image of a face that   
   is not ours...derivative or reflective good."   
      
   Blessings,   
   Ann   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)