Demon Possession

Achilles achillesz@usa.net
Sun, 7 Feb 1999 04:35:10 -0500 (00918401710, 09333222327266@unifour.com)


On 5 Feb 99, at 3:50, eric/cindy bach wrote:


> At 11:02 PM 2/3/99 -0500, Jason Carter wrote:
> >>>TILL
> >>>But, gee, Ray, Catholics aren't real Christians. Real Christians are
> >>>whoever Matt Bell says are Christians. You should know that.
> >>
> >>Ray:
> >>Damn, I forgot!
> >
> >CARTER
> >Real Christians are those who are born again, no matter what
> >denomination.
>
> BACH
> So, would Jesus in John 3:5 be endorsing a water baptism of sprinkling,
> dunking, pouring, or immersion...or doesn't that matter? At what age
> should this be done? These are some of the basic disputes that explain why
> we have so many denominations and why there are all these "True Scotsman"
> arguments over who is a REAL Xian, are they not? What would being born
> again of the spirit entail in your opinion....or better yet, according to
> something biblical that you could cite? Rule #1 of good salesmanship,
> Jason: Know your product. If it's all so clear, how can there currently
> be nearly 3,000 distinctly different versions of Xianity on the market
> today all claiming to be the one true version? No wonder I gave up trying
> to decide which one to buy! Bones Bach thebachs@fgi.net
>
>
Achilles Well, it doesn't look like Jason wants to give any meaningful answers on this. Robert Price wrote an excellent book, available online, you might find interesting though... "Beyond Born Again: Towards Evangelical Maturity" http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/robert_price/beyond_born_again/ /Achilles achillesz@usa.net All rights reserved. Random thought for the moment: A preposition must never be used to end a sentence with. -- S. Gorn's Compendium of Rarely Used Cliches