--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], t3rinity <no_reply@> 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.
True, but entirely irrelevant. Michael was talking about FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANS. *Not* mainstream Protestants or Catholics, FUNDAMENTALISTS. 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/
