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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2004-06-29

"I've long made a distinction between 'Jesus worshippers' and 'Christians,' that is, between people who spend all their energy talking about how great Jesus is, and those who spend their energy doing their best to emulate him. It's nice to know there are more of the latter than I'd realized."" -- [livejournal.com profile] anotherjen, 2004-01-01

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posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 05:53am on 2004-06-29
You're trying to make me snort my orange juice again. You know I'm an atheist/agnostic who believes in most of Jesus' teachings' tenets, even if I don't believe the whole shebang. I try to be pleasant and helpful, cut jerks slack, and be polite. Unless I'm overheated or frightened, and my hackles are up. And even then I try to be patient as long as I can, which isn't long.

I don't quite get the distinction. Maybe you can clarify it sometime. I'm probrably an imperfect latter, though I'd sooner bite myself than admit to being Christian. I try to work at being Jewish and Buddhist, too. (We chuckle).
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posted by [identity profile] vvalkyri.livejournal.com at 07:19am on 2004-06-29
Interesting question: Can you be Christian without considering Jesus divine?

The distinction Jen is making sounds to me like the difference between the born again Christians at Wittenberg who would tell me that unless I accepted Jesus as Savior I'd go to Hell, and one of my friends at Wellesley who was always kind and loving and peaceful, and if you asked her how she exuded this peaceful feeling she'd tell you about her faith. But not push it - this was how she lived.
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posted by [personal profile] cellio at 01:04pm on 2004-06-29
I don't quite get the distinction.

I see it as the difference between seeing wisdom in his teachings and following that, and elevating him to godhood and worshipping him. The latter did not develop immediately, by the way -- it took a few centuries. The separate question of messiah status seems to have gotten swallowed up into that; if you consult the prophetic writings that describe the messiah and that were certainly part of the context at the time, it's pretty clear Jesus didn't do that (hence the "second coming" angle). But once you've elevated him to godhood I guess that's less important, or something.

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posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 08:31am on 2004-06-29
I do not believe Jesus diviine, per se. I do hold his teachings in high regard, and do my pathetic best to emulate him.
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