--- In [email protected], t3rinity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], t3rinity <no_reply@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > > Even a fundamental Christian may have had an Awakening > > > > experience, and therefore believes that anything > > > > connected with that religion is true. > > > > > > You're deluding yourself...*most* Christians in > > > the world have had NO SUCH EXPERIENCE. They are > > > merely trusting what they have been told to trust. > > > > Most Christians, perhaps. But Michael specified > > *fundamentalist* Christians, many if not most of > > whom have had some sort of "born-again" experience. > > Thanks Judy, that's what I had meant indeed. It's just that such > experiences aren't counted as such by some people. They are > so 'low' that they don't even count them as such.
That's not it at all. It's a "numbers game." In the world of Christianity, mainly reflected by mainstream Protestant or Catholic followers, it would be a *rarity* to find someone who had personally had some kind of "born again" experience. Talk to actual priests and pastors sometime instead of imagining what they deal with; they would tell you that the name of the game is FAITH. They deal with "flocks" who have *had* no spiritual experiences. They read stories about them. But forget about the numbers. Assume a group of only ten people who have had no personal experience that they would call "spiritual," never in their entire lives. Yet they believe in the Bible as described to them by their priest or pastor. Where exactly is the component of "experience" in this? What I'm saying is that I think trinity thinks that people in the world at large think and act the way the people he's used to interacting with do. I'm suggesting he needs to get out more. :-) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
