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   Ben Kaufman to linuxgal   
   Re: Jesus will not return   
   25 Aug 12 11:19:08   
   
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   From: spaXm-mXe-anXd-paXy-5000-dollars@pobox.com   
      
   On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 06:19:55 -0700, linuxgal  wrote:   
      
   >Ben Kaufman wrote:   
   >> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:41:31 -0230, David Dalton  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Jesus will not return.   
   >>   
   >> One has to have existed in order to return.   
   >   
   >I'm sure he existed, but the thing is, death is **defined** as the   
   >irreversible cessation of life.  So if Jesus reversed it, then he didn't   
   >die, by definition.  And the afterlife doesn't work either, in the same   
   >way you can't divide by zero.   
      
   Why are you sure that he existed?   
      
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