COSMO@TRIUMFER (02/04/90)
Greetings, I must confess, I've often been somewhat sympathetic to the view that the 'Christ' part of Jesus Christ is the part of God which saves man, and that when He said 'I am the Way, the Truth, and the Light', and, 'Nobody gets to the Father but by Me', he wasn't excluding the possibility that He would appear to other people at other times in a different body. Because I've always wondered what He meant, when taking leave of the disciples, He said, 'I have other flocks to tend'. Also, it just kind of makes sense that He would, being that you'd think God would want to get His message out to all of mankind, especially if the structure of the culture is such that they just might find it too hard to swallow the Judaic rendition. Therefore I'm curious if anywhere in the Bible it states explicitly (not something which could be interpreted many different ways) that there would only be one incarnation of the Christ? If it turns out that the Bible does not say that the Christ would only appear once, then before jumping to the conclusion that Buddha or Mohamed or Krisna or whoever was an incarnation, one would have to determine what the KEY elements of His mission were, and make sure those are found in the other potential incarnations. The first thing to pop into my mind is that His death on the Cross was a key element of the mission, however it's possible He only had to do that once, and that other missions were spent teaching God's Law, although you'd think God could have just used prophets for that, unless it was important for each major culture to have a chance to see the Christ, and not just another prophet. Send your stuff directly to me if it's going to start another useless idiology battle. Peace David
D2MG@SDSUMUS (Kurt Evans) (02/05/90)
David (COSMO@TRIUMFER) has, in his postings:
Equated Christian prophecy with mysticism.
Denied the inerrancy of scripture.
Told us he heard one of God's angels say "@#$%!"
Stated that the Mormons are just another denomination.
Bragged about how he supposedly sat in at an occult gathering
saying, "Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah! My God's bigger
than yours!" to witches whose spells wouldn't function in
his presence.
Somehow I wasn't surprised when his post came in sympathizing with
Peter Capell's supposedly "accidental" post on the "Christ-principle."
I had been praying in my unknown tongue for about two hours when
the Lord first told me David isn't the charismatic Christian he says
he is.
Whose God is the biggest?
Kurt (the tactless one)pc1y+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Peter Capell) (02/06/90)
I believe there is only one ``incarnation'' of the Christ. There is only one Christ in my view. All I was saying is that the Christ may make Itself (if you will) apparent in any form that It will. It (in my view) is the one conciousness given us by God through which we may know Him.