From: pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey)
Subject: Re: I'm God.
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 04:39:31 GMT

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rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts) writes:
>Agreed.  And we have Christianity spread thoughout the world.  It spread 
>from Jerusalem out rather quickly.  Within a few days of Pentecost there
>were 3,000 (Acts 2:41) and then 5,000 (Acts 4:4) believers within 
>Jerusalem.  

Huh? Are you confusing facts with myth? Christianity was a total dud
amongst the Hellenistic Jews. It was in the crumbling remains of the
Greco/Roman empire that Christianity found it's converts. Of course,
"convert or die" is one offer that is hard to refuse.

>Oh.  What is the volume of books we call the Bible that predicts and
>confirms this one man Jesus the Christ as he was to come, was here,
>and will come again?  I understand that's not enough.  

Man? Did you say man? I thought Jesus was a God or Son of God or
something like that. And the "New Testament" was written after the
facts. Makes prediction rather easy, don't you think?

>Where are their bodies today?   Jesus never died again - he is alive.

Where is His body today? Don't tell me, He's behind one of those red
curtains in a Lynch movie with all the rest of the claimers of
reincarnation.

>I think Budda's body is spread across the region and there are temples
>built over parts of his body - I think he did die.

What? Buddha acheived enlightenment, that is transcendence of death, yet
he came back to play with the children. Once you are enlightened, you
are beyond death. But, being a Jesus freak, this is all beyond you.

>He died and rose never to die again - did your men above do that?

Men? I thought Jesus WAS GOD? Who cares if a God dies and rises to never
die again. Gods do that all the time. G, even Elvis did that.

>A afterlife is promised for all who follow Jesus.

Hey, according to Christanity, everyone gets an after life. Even
non-believers, what's the big deal? Personally, I can't see spending
eteranity with a bunch of TV/fundy/EVILgelicals so the choice seems
fairly obvious. If opposites attract then I'm on your side, if you know
what I mean.

>Jesus rose and proved
>there was life beyond the grave and death had no more power over him nor
>will it have power over those who believe, for we will overcome death
>at the resurrection.

Oh really, so you predict that you won't die? And where will you go when
you die? The heavens? What like the moon? Outside of the universe? Even
at the speed of light, the first Christians haven't yet left the
universe. Where are you predicting yourself to go?

>Who said there was an earthly father even know his name?  All of the
>information and understanding I have says that Mary conceived - if
>God can created mankind, then surely he can cause a woman to conceive,
>without a man.

So, Mary used artificial insemination? I thought Christians were against
that sort of thing? And how come we don't have any stories of the
childhood of Jesus? Or did Mary give birth to a full grown Jesus? And
Mary was born of her mother and thus a sinner, right? So Jesus was born
of a sinner? Or was Mary also born of virgin birth? So Mary was a
Goddess, wasn't she? If Mary was the Mother of Jesus, doesn't that make
Her more important than Her Son?

>They had them figured out.  Joseph was not the father.  Mary was the
>mother.  The legal line came through Joseph, as Matthew presents it.
>Matthew does not say Joseph was Jesus' father.  Luke gives the
>male ancestorial line and so the blood line of Jesus through Mary to 
>David -  Jesus was the son of each of those in Luke's geneology.  Both 
>of them mention Joseph.

Hmm, seems like kind of a screw up, don't you think?

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That icon of yours reminds me of only one thing, the KKK. Is that what
you are symbolizing?