my advice would be to be blunt. make sure they know
about cp and ask point blank about it.

--- Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Kyle,
>
>   That's fine - I won't be on again till Monday. Am
> taking the girls to =
> see a College. If anyone out here has good ideas how
> to appraoch the CP =
> topic with the college - I am all ears. Hemi's help
> would great!
>
>   I tend to quote - other learned sources simply
> becasue my ideas - when =
> I present them are always - pointed out to be less
> than intelligent so =
> rather than say - you know I read this and this how
> I see it - I use =
> people who you may at least respect a little. I do
> actually discuss my =
> ideas with people who respect me, and we expand each
> others horizons.=20
>
> Oh and on the please send prayers and good thoughts
> - my Mom's stroke =
> was cause by a clogged artery in her neck - when a
> piece of the clog =
> broke off and went into her brain - she will be
> having a carotid =
> endarterectomy, in the future. In the mean time she
> is a bit better and =
> I am taking care of both of them - after work -
> house keeping, feeding =
> and general loving.
>
>                                          Trisha
>
>
> > Trisha-
> >=20
> > I'll respond in depth later this weekend when I
> have more time, but =
> no, I'm
> > speaking of what one of the authors in you link
> referred to as =
> "Pauline"
> > Christians--at least during that timeframe.  The
> Gnostics were later =
> down
> > the line.
> >=20
> > I think the authors raise a red herring about the
> schisms in the first
> > century church, but I'll address that in detail
> later--and I promise I =
> won't
> > use someone else's opinion to support my own.
> Since I profess the =
> Bible to
> > be true, it would be hypocritical of me to rest my
> assertions on the
> > scholarly work of another.  I think the "law and
> the prophets" and the =
> other
> > writings found in what we call the "bible" are
> strong enough to stand =
> on
> > their own without a Rabbi, Priest or Theo Ph.D.
> telling us what it all
> > means.
> >=20
> > Kyle
> >=20
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Trisha Cummings [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 1:50 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: religion and politics (long-ish); was
> RE: Brother in Law
> >=20
> >=20
> > Hi Kyle,
> >=20
> >    The ancient Eypytians are more the
> contemporaries of the Jews in =
> the
> > beginning. As are the Babylonians and such - these
> civilzations =
> pre-date
> > writing, also pre-date The Greeks and Romans. The
> Romans are =
> contemporaries
> > of the early Christians. I am talking about the 3
> "in the Beginning =
> stories"
> > foround in the Bible. These existed before the
> writing time - when =
> they sat
> > around the fires and handed down the stories.
> >=20
> > I think maybe we are both talking about the early
> Gnostic Christians - =
> here
> > a link to that.
> > =
>
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/first/diversity.ht=
> ml
> >=20
> > The early Christians were against war -
> >
>
http://www.users.voicenet.com/~kuenning/qhp/dymond.html
> >=20
> > We don't need to change each others minds - I am
> speaking of centuries
> > before the ones you are. Christianity has its
> roots in the Jewish =
> past. They
> > go back before writting. Lets face it the oldest
> real religious =
> artifacts go
> > back 9,000 years ago, and they are Pagan and we
> conjecture about it -
> > becasue no one survives and they had no writing.
> The very roots of =
> ancient
> > Jews - are also lost - what we have is what has
> survived thru oral =
> tradition
> > until we had writing.
> >=20
> > I am sorry you are not doing well. I will think
> really good thoughts
> >=20
> >                                  Trisha


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