From: ed_l1@verifone.com
Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage
Subject: Re: absolute truth
Date: 23 Jul 92 14:12:53 -1000
Organization: VeriFone Inc., Honolulu HI

In article <1992Jul17.213059.20168@tc.fluke.COM>, emery@tc.fluke.COM (John Emery) writes:
> 
> Before I can affirm this, I must reconcile some key facts:
> 
> (1) The Revealing of Truth
> 	Christianity: God became man in the person of Jesus Christ.  This
> 	happened at a point in history.  He was born in Bethlehem about
> 	2000 years ago.  Lived his life in what is known today as Israel.
> 	He plainly taught asolute truth and declared clearly between
> 	right and wrong. He performed miracles, and overcame death by rising 
> 	from the dead in the same body that was crucified and pierced.  He 
> 	is the source of all truth and is referred to as truth by name.
> 	Newage: Truth is not known unless one is enlightened.  There is no
> 	absolute truth, no constant right and wrong.

Don't know who's been trying to sell you NewAge, John, but this is not
representative of the NewAge _I_ know.
Spirit may know Truth, and our ego-container-bodies may glimpse Truth,
and sometimes "know" it, but to put that Truth into human language?
Can't be done.  Language is too limiting -- we don't have the words.
And non-existance of "absolute truth?"  Only in the physical - in the
realm of spirit there is an absolute truth, perhaps.  How can we know?
I think you been talking to a snake-oil salesman.  Don't go through
intermediaries, get to know God yourself.

Most of your other assumptions about New Age thought are closer to the
mark, and granted, there's a lot of differing opinions out there.
There's also a lot of "old age" stuff that jumped on the New Age
bandwagon, and also some capitalists selling "magic crystals" and the
like to the unwary.  Kinda like the early days of Christianity...
You have to be careful, and don't take anone else's word for anything.
Listen, learn and then see for yourself.
              _
Christianity <_X  was for the Piscean age.  Now Humans are ready for
the next step, into the Aquarian ~ Age. Like it or not, we're going.
                                 ~
Christianity is good stuff, for the most part, but churches and
religious power-mongers have messed it up, subverted what Christ 
taught for their own ends.  Even the Bible has been revised through the
ages so that nothing in there can be taken to be representative of
what Jesus said or did.  There are good hints, especially in his
parables, that didn't get trashed, but for the most part we are on
our own.

> -- 
> John Emery		"You say we've risen to a new age of light.
> emery@tc.fluke.COM       You're telling me what used to be wrong
> 			 is now right."

Wrong assumption again, John.  Right and wrong have not changed.
Again, you've been talking to the wrong folks.

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