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I’d like to ask you to visit a web page I’ve written, read through the content (which will take about ten minutes) then send me your comments on it.  The URL is http://www.mastersdesign.com/jwelch/Jesus.html When sending E-mail (send to the address below), please note in your message that you saw this note posted in an AOL newsgroup.  Thanks!

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I’d like to ask you to visit a web page I’ve written, read through the content (which will take about ten minutes) then send me your comments on it.  The URL is http://www.mastersdesign.com/jwelch/Jesus.html When sending E-mail (send to the address below), please note in your message that you saw this note posted in an AOL newsgroup.  Thanks!

  Your post is not in an AOL newsgroup, hon. It was posted in the above-referenced Usenet group. AOL subscribes to this newsgroup, as do most ISPs. I noted from your message thread that the not was not cross-posted, so its inclusion was not accidental. It’s just not AOL sponsored.

  So I went to your site, skimmed it (stopped reading after the first quarter). It’s par for the course for prosetylization. As an example. Was Jesus a Fraud? Just a "Good Man"? You give four citations to suppose your answer to these questions:  " I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can get to [God] except through me."  " With all the earnestness I possess I tell you this: Unless you are born again, you can never get into [heaven]."  " …if anyone publicly denies me, I will openly deny him before [God] in heaven."  " If any of you want to be my follower, you must put aside your own pleasures and shoulder your cross, and follow me closely."

These four statements differ little from any bogus spiritual huckster. Each has been made, with variations, by frauds and "good men" alike. Two spectacular cases in recent years, Rev. Jim Jones and David Koresh, each made similar statements about themselves.   Simply to reprint four preposterous statements does not made Jesus special any more than it makes Hitler, Jones or Koresh special to have made similar statements about their powers to lead. Although the Lord created each person to resemble himself and gave them an innocent record in relation to him, the Bible teaches that each of us have consciously disobeyed his standards – we all have sinned! Since we all have sinned, we, individually, must pay the consequences for this sin. The consequence you ask? Damnation, torment; eternal separation from God.

My rather distant memories of the Bible are that it says nothing of the sort. Rather it states that Adam sinned, and as his offspring, we must suffer the consequences of his action. We did not buy into it, cannot be responsible for the behavior of someone we may or may not be related to, but have to pay for the action as though we ourselves had commited it.   This is similar to the Mafia’s method of dispensing "justice" — kill all the family members as well as the offender. As well as similar to the punishment method employed in countries whose human rights violations sensitive humans decry. But your god’s decision to employ this method of dispensing justice is not only embraced by you, you misinterpreted your very own Bible to broaden the powers of your god’s right to inflict punishment.   It’s not useful to keep going. It’s just more of the same. –Astrologer The fates seldom forget the bargains made with them, or fail to ask for compound interest. — Edith Wharton

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