Re: Really, honestly, how can you believe that old book???
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Do you know any Evangelical Christians? In my experience there are three broad categories.
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Christian unity as a reality to stare you in the face! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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The EC for whom Scripture has catalyzed an authentic spiritual experience. This is extremely rare, first of all because very few people feel the emptiness and estrangement that are necessary for authentic spirituality. You have to have a dark, festering sadness for the human condition rotting out your soul...
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As authentic as their narrowness believes (see above [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] )
The estrangement is related to an estrangement of reality which is sublimated as a seemingly "authentic" experience.
They genuinely love the Bible for their experience of it and that is the most worrying aspect of it when you read the bible unprejudiced. It describes what have to be the closest to the opposite of love or benevolence. That is true of both the ancient and the new testament, although the later is a bit toned down.
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