"justabeing" <just.a.being@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "cal" <cal1360@gmaNOSPAMail.com> wrote in message
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>> "RGB" <mark022806-asd@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>> In article <efvrhq$nts$1@news.datemas.de>,
>>> "cal" <cal1360@gmaNOSPAMail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> i felt like that the time an elderly woman turned to me in the subway
>>>> and asked me if i knew about jesus. sure i do, i told her. do you
>>>> love jesus in your heart, she then wanted to know. sure, i said. when
>>>> she heard that, she just BEAMED at me. isn't it wonderful, she said.
>>>> isn't it wonderful.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, I'll never forget reading out this incident where
>>> two kids were playing "lie down on the double yellow line" on an
>>> undivided highway (I think the idea comes from some movie) and a truck
>>> came along and crushed one of them. As he lay dying, a local man came
>>> running up and, while waiting for the ambulance, asked the dying but
>>> still conscious kid if he accepted Jesus Christ as his saviour. Meant
>>> well, I suppose, and maybe the demographics of the area made it
>>> overwhelmingly likely that the kid was Christian, and I believe he
>>> *did* say yes... but what if he *didn't* accept Jesus Christ as his
>>> saviour? What is he was, say, Jewish? What a time to have to choose
>>> between lying or telling the truth and risking God knows what.
>>
>> otoh many christians would appreciate having someone with them in their
>> last moments to help them settle these things. maybe if he'd just asked
>> the kid if he was christian before popping the question about jesus
>> christ.
>>
> you don't need a middle-man
> (to know which way the wind blows)
that's what i think too. but i know a lot of christians like to have someone
there to commend them to jesus at the end, so i'm giving the dude a positive
spin. i don't like to think he didn't *care* what the kid's religion and
beliefs were. but it's possible. there are people like that.
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