ELEE6CK%JANE@uhvax1.uh.edu (10/27/89)
Hello, and greetings to all my fellow Christians out there in netland
Praise the Lord!
I am a charismatic, born-again Christian (of the Roman Catholic sect).
I would be interested in hearing from anyone out there, especially
charismatics.
FYI: I am a senior electrical engineering student with an interest
in computer engineering and theology[not technology, theology].
Response to ONE TRUTH-- ONE PATH-- maybe I don't quite understand you
since I more or less skimmed your article. Truly I believe John 14:6
"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no one comes to the Father but
through me...." However, if the Roman Catholic Charismatics have taught
me one thing, it is that it is more important for us to confess the lordship
of our Beloved Lord and Savior Jesus Christ rather than to confess lordship
in any particular *human* doctrine, including religion. I have no right
to force anyone to my way of thinking or belief system, be they Christian
or not. To limit God {as a trinitarian, invoking One invokes the Three)
to a particular sectarian dogma contradicts the notion of the Omniscience.
In summary, religion is for us-- we are for the Lord (see Paul's letters
to Timothy).
BTW, I witness to other Christians, but also to non-and anti-Christians,
if only to inform them of certain facts about our shared belief system.
The point of all this is: You and I are Christians... we experience the
power of Jesus Christ in our lives, and in the lives of those around us.
However, we (people in general) look at God (in general) differently
simply because we are different. Religion (finite creatures loving an
Infinite God) is a strong function of culture. Regardless of the label
I give myself, God still comes first in my life-- not to judge, but I wonder
if maybe you are trying to scare people into confessing lordship to you and
to your politico-religious system rather than confessing lordship
to the Lord of lords.
H. Augustine Flores [.sig "O Beauty of ancient days, forever old, forever
inri new... our hearts are restless until they rest
| Thee..." St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions]
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