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   From: theswain@operamail.com   
      
   darylgene@aol.com wrote:   
   > On Apr 24, 4:52�am, "�jevind L�ng"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> skrev i meddelandetnews:1177375870.074684.   
   61800@b58g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...   
   >>   
   >>�[snip]   
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   >>   
   >>>If one is to believe Paul a person does not get to pick and choose   
   >>   
   >>what they are to believe. Why would you call someone a Christian who   
   >>rejected either side of Christ? There are existential differences   
   >>between a God that became a man and one that was solely divine, so   
   >>again I would ask, how are they the same God?   
   >>   
   >>However, many early Christians ("the Ebionites") rejected Paul as "the new   
   >>twlfth Apostle". One can reject what Paul says and still be a Christian.   
   >>   
   >>�jevind   
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   >   
   > Why not what Matthew, Mark, John, Luke, James et al. say then. You   
   > could go the way of the Jesus Seminar and conclude He said little   
   > other than take care of the poor and do unto others.   
   >   
   > In his book, "Christ, A Crisis in the Life of God," Jack Miles quotes   
   > Robert W Funk (a founder of the Jesus Seminar,) writing in his "Honest   
   > to Jesus: Jesus for a New Millennium,"  as saying "I confess I am more   
   > intrested in what Jesus of Nazareth thinks about God's domain than in   
   > what Peter the fisherman and Paul the tentmaker thought about Jesus,"   
   > to which Miles continues "one perfectly legitimate reply is: "I   
   > confess I am not."   
   >   
   > Perhaps one could claim to be a Christian and reject Paul but I   
   > suspect I would not recognize the doctrines of such a Christianity.   
   > Does a Vodoo priest qualify as a Christian because they also venerate   
   > Jesus? Do they also worship the same God?   
      
   The problem continues to be that you define Christian as being an   
   orthodox Christian in the Western mode, as if these were precisely the   
   same thing.  They aren't.   
      
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