From: "Alice Turner" <akt@attglobal.net>
Subject: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v010.n035
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 12:35:54 

> >Ah, but as someone actually going through the conversion process right
now,
> >I think formal Catholic position is "sure the gospels were written later,
> under
> >difficult circumstances, etc." but that, of course, they overcame this by
aid
> >of the Holy Spirit.
>
> Yes, you and I and Wolfe agree, and Alga (almost certainly) doesn't. My
> only point was that we have to consider what Wolfe had in mind. [snip]

Well, Ratty, you're wrong, I do agree. My very point was that Horn, exactly
like Mathew (the most egregious of the gospeleers, IMO--and I will happily
cite how), when he wasn't present at an event, made free to invent, but with
the sincerity of love and the drive of evangelism, which is, I suppose, what
Alex means by the Holy Spirit. That, however, doesn't quite make it fact.

Alex, I am interested in what "going through the conversion process" means.
If you think that is off-topic, would you please email me about it? TIA.
(The fact that I am a heathen doesn't make me theologically rude, except to
the Rat, who likes it.)

-alga


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