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Subject: Christ the AntiChrist
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Date: Mon, 6-Jun-83 00:11:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  6 00:11:36 1983
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From: David.Sher
I first must explain this message to minimize the damage.  This message
is a response (somewhat heated) to Larry Bickford's challenge to refute
the ressurection.  I will not refute it but will explain it.  I do not
want anyone whose faith might be weak and who wishes to retain his
faith to be hurt by this article (Except Larry Bickford deserves whatever
results are propogated from his actions).  Anyway I start.  

The adversary whose purpose is to oppose God's plan in anyway that does
not involve directly breaking God's laws (he can not since he is an
angel) chose to try and prevent the spread of Judaism to the four
corners of the earth.  To do this he chose to establish a religion
close enough to Judaism to woo followers away.  So he established a
pregnancy in a woman and instantiated himself as her child.  This was
viewed (quite rightly) as a miracle.  The adversary being an angel
began to preach.  While what he preached was correct in the case at
hand it was such that it would allow easy ways out for those Jews who
were of weak constitution.  In other words it made it easy rationalize
away their sins.  Of course he was clearly angellic and uninterested in
sex.  He soon gathered a following, whom began, subtlely, to corrupt.
One of these grew sufficiently corrupt to sell him out to the
authorities.  They crucified him.  But of course an angel can not be
killed by ordinary means.  So the adversary, as a final artistic touch,
feigned death and then appeared to come back to life telling his adherents
to start a new religion.  This religion came into being.  Being a
construct of the adversary it was of course corrupt and eventually became
involved in Roman politics.  Of course one of its main goals was the
elimination of Judaism.  Yet as it spread amid the corruption some good
was spread.  The ten commandments and much of Judaism was accepted by
people who did not have the strength to be Jewish.  And so amid the
evil good was done.  This is a true miracle.  

OK Larry, disprove this.  I have now explained the true origins of
Christianity.  If you don't believe me then you are going to have to
disprove the substance (not merely some details) of this account. 

Note that this letters do not necessarily describe anyone's views.
It has nothing to do with the Jewish religion.  Nevertheless it should
be answered.  (It is rather convincing.)

-David Sher (ofttimes AI project)