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[chess]

I think that I might have given some people here some wrong impressions in the past. So, I'd just like to clear a few things up.
1. I am a Christian.
2. This means that I believe in one God, who expresses Himself as a Trinity of people - God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
3. This also means that I believe all other gods/godesses/deities-of-any-description are fakes, invented by humans or by Satan to trap people and keep them away from God.
4. In addition, I believe that everyone who isn't a Christian is going to Hell.
5. Understandably, I would really rather all you people didn't go to Hell. Hence, I'm praying for you. And I'm going to keep praying for you. Even if you ask me not to.

So, there we go.

Comments

[passage.livejournal.com]

I must admit that I'm a little surprised, not by any of these, of course I knew this about you already.

And that's rather what surprises me: to whom did you think you had given that impression, and by what means?

Your posts in the past have been ... well not overtly Christian but frequently it has been obvious that God has been on your mind as you were writting[1].

And I'm impressed, you mentioned the trinity and yet managed to get a whole pile of comments not even mentioning it.

There could be a calling for pastoring there Michelle ...

Neil, who it appears is currently trying to break the limit for most comments by one person to a single post.

[1] I'd love to give a link as evidence but the one I was thinking of has no comments so I can't link to it (I don't know how to get the url fo something without comments or lj-cut, perhaps I should leave a comment on it just so I can link to it?

Anyhow, the latest of the posts (if there are more than one) by you on Thursday, April 18th, 2002

[naath.livejournal.com]

I have no argument with the Trinity... nether does anyone else it seems... Hell is better for arguing about.

[passage.livejournal.com]

Actually it's one of a handful of topics that get debated by every generation of Christians and don't seem to have entirely satisfactory answers.

Except (in this case) perhaps "This is God, did you really expect to entirely understand him?"

To be fair I was debating the matter of Hell with a nihilist (sp?) on wednesday evening, so I guess there are a few debates on the subject of Hell too.

Neil

Re:

[naath.livejournal.com]

Ah yeah, I've never ahd a problem with the trinity, because I have no difficulty in believing in several aspects of a thing all really being the same thing... but then I'm not Christian.

[chess]

Elynne. Naath. Possibly the ppl on my friendslist that I don't really know that well yet. I just felt that I'd done a lot of listening to other people talking about their beliefs recently, and I was worried that I might have, by listening, given them the impression that I thought those beliefs were compatable with mine, or even true. Hence this post.

[griffen.livejournal.com]

For them, their beliefs *are* true. Doesn't matter if you don't think they're true. For me, the Goddess is much more real than your god ever could be. That is my truth, and I don't need a book to tell me how to think or what to believe.

Jesus was a teacher, not a divine being, at least no more than any of us are divine beings (which is to say, all of us).