Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gatech!strick From: strick@gatech.UUCP (henry strickland) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: I hear it every XMAS Message-ID: <11348@gatech.UUCP> Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 14:45:55 EST Article-I.D.: gatech.11348 Posted: Sat Dec 15 14:45:55 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 07:33:36 EST References: <715@amdahl.UUCP>, <4768@fortune.UUCP> <4339@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: the clouds project, school of ics, georgia tech Lines: 33 [ I tried to post to net.christian.xian, but it's not here yet ] > I don't like 'xian'. I'm just bothered by replacing > 'christ' with 'x'. I think that's reasonable for a Christian. The Christian church is full of abbreviations. Does the P chi rho symbol bother you? Or does the early Christian X church symbol of the fish reduce Christ to being a fish? [ Chi Rho are the first two letters of the Greek word for Christ. The Greek word for fish contains 5 letters, an acronym for Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior (at the risk of publishing without researching, I think it's IXTHOS (TH=theta)). ] It's been decided to use net.religion.xian, and it's not up for debate. It's not a bad idea. There are more important matters of faith being discussed here... I'm hoping to be able to understand the fundamentalist view a little better. Could someone kindly tell me when a fundamentallist allows divorce? 1) If the husband gives the wife a writ of divorce (Leviticus(?)) 2) Only in the case of adultery (Matthew) 3) Never never never (Mark, Luke) 4) It's alright if you become a Christian and your non-Christian spouse wants it. (I Corintheans) Peace, strick! -- -- henry strickland -- the clouds project { akgua allegra hplabs inhp4 } -- school of ics / ga tech !gatech!strick -- atlanta ga 30332