From: rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: Was Pitts Out of the Loop During the Persian Gulf War?
Date: 5 Nov 92 14:18:47 GMT
Organization: CERL-EE, Georgia Institue of Technology

In article <1992Nov4.210259.19065@ncar.ucar.edu> kauff@neit.cgd.ucar.edu (Brian Kauffman) writes:
|>> = drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
|>  = rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts) writes:
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|>[] For Christ and His Kingdom,
|>[] Richard Pitts
|
|>[ Which Chirst?????
|
|> THE CHRIST.  Jesus of Nazareth, The Lord, The Creator, The Savior,
|> The Mighty God, King of Kings, Lord of Lords.
|
|Ah, that doesn't narrow it down much.  Would that be:

Yes, it does.  Jesus of Nazareth, God Incarnate.  The ONLY one
that is THE Christ.  The historical person prophecied and revealed
in the man Jesus son of Joseph and Mary, of whom this Jesus was the `
fullness of the Godhead in bodily form.   One of the test for
orthodoxy, if not the only and main one, is that one believes that
THE CHRIST has come in the flesh in the body of the man Jesus of
Nazareth and this is God Himself.  Even the Jews don't deny he
existed - they just deny his position of God and Saviour, The Messiah.

|1) *your* CHRIST
|2) *my* CHRIST
|3) drieux's CHRIST  (re: Return of the Son of the OneTrueGod (tm) )
|3) Pat Robertson's CHRIST
|4) Jesse Jackson's CHRIST
|5) Jesse Helm's CHRIST
|6) the Pope's CHRIST
|8) the Jewish CHRIST (tba)
|9) the Buddist CHRIST (Budda et. al)
|10) the CHRIST that realized He was a SonOfGod after teenage spiritual 
|   training by Buddists in India?
|11)...
|
|With so many "THE CHRIST, THE Creator, & THE All Mighty God"s to choose from,
|choosing TheRightOne (tm Pespico) can be difficult.  Did you choose the one 

It could be difficult, but Jesus of Nazareth died and rose from the 
grave NEVER to die again.  He WON THE VICTORY over death - no other
supposed religious leader of these other world religions has done that.
The others all died and you can run around and see their tombs and bodies,
if you so desire.

|that you liked the best?  Or did you just choose the one that's most common 
|in your neighborhood/family/country?  Should the government choose
|TheRightOne (tm) for us, so we don't hurt ourselves by making bad choices.

It doesn't matter what someone or some group does - the ultimate decision
rest with you.

|If so, which government can we trust to choose TheRightOne (tm)?  USA? 
|Ireland? Isreal? Iran?  Tebet?  Korea?  Easter Island?  Nigeria?  Palistine?
|BTW: what percentage of the earth's population (past, present, & future) 
|do you suppose will fry in hell because, although they thought long & hard 
|before choosing a Christ, they unfortunately didn't make the same choice that 
|you did?  You are sure that you're not being egocentric, aren't you?

All who reject Christ are destined to eternal separation from God,
which is the second death - the lake of fire that never dies.

Don't confuse thinking long and hard on whether Jesus is the only way,
but consider the temporary tangile or intangible thing you desire
that you think is more worthwhile than following Jesus today. Do you
know what you want more than Jesus?  Is it mental, physical, emotional,
or even supposedly spiritual?  There is nothing mankind has or will 
have that is worth holding so dearly that you reject Jesus and lose eternity
with God.

|-Brian


For THE Christ and His Kingdom,
Richard Pitts
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