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Subject: The tenants have changed, not the tenets

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Biff

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Date Posted: 10/27/04 9:50pm
In reply to: QUITTNER 's message, "tenets remained the same ???" on 10/26/04 2:48pm

>..... Obviously this is NOT SO. Jesus never said
>anything, for example, about shedding his own blood so
>that EVERYBODY will be forgiven their sins/trespasses.

You're absolutely right. And Christianity does not teach that EVERYBODY will be forgiven their sins, only "to all who received him...."

>..... Compare the current versions of Christianity
>with the FIRST version, the one by Jesus. There are
>HUGE differences.

Differences in forms or practices, of course. Jesus was Jewish, I'm Canadian. Differences in belief, of course not. What I believe is based directly on what he said and did.

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The Value of Beliefs	QUITTNER	10/29/04 1:15pm