> Mary Jo wrote: > Well, one can call themselves anything they wish, but that doesn't > necessarily make it accurate.
I'm just going by what Jesus called them. Both Thomas and John were apostles and thus both "Christian". But one core difference is pretty clear: when John says "though Jesus Christ" what he means is that you personally are nothing without him. I don't believe that, Thomas didn't believe it, and neither did Jesus; at least he certainly supported Thomas' view that "the light" was within us all and that Thomas' questioning and search for personal truth was glorifying him. So the question who did Jesus consider Christian? My contention is that most everything you've learned in Christian church - the "religion" - comes from John's interpretation of a proper Christian life. Yet Thomas - also an apostle - describes a totally different life. One that no Christian church that I've ever found teaches, probably for the reasons that Judah pointed out. Because in Thomas' view, the physics classroom IS church, and they can't make money selling THAT search for truth. To take this even further, there's a reason why neo-cons are also fundamentalists: they love John's follow-me-or-go-to-hell message. That was the core George Bush's campaigns. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:306294 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
