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Originally Posted by owlie33
If you are not a born-again Christian, you don't know what it means to "act Christian" or possibly even what it means to be Christian.
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And you prove my point. The label "born again Christian" used the way you used it, and some of the theological assumptions that tend to go along with it, is a term pretty much limited to the conservative, more fundamentalist slice of Christianity. As a life-long Presbyterian, I have never, ever heard the term used in Presbyterian circles -- it's just not how we talk. Likewise for my fairly extensive dealings with Lutheran, Anglican/Episcopal, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians.
So it's really not a matter of me thinking that someone is accusing me of being a bad person at all. It's a matter of someone telling me that I'm not really Christian simply because I do not share their particular understanding of what that means -- never mind that I do share the faith that the vast majority of Christians have professed for the last 2000 years.
And it's precisely that attitude that has led many people to be wary of some of the "Christian" groups on college campuses.
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