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"Going to church doesn't make you a christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car"

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Originally posted by catfoodtim
I concur.

3 days of standing in my father's garage in the vain hope of becoming a 1979 Austin Allegro certainly proved to me that God doesn't hang around in garages.

There's no room in Christianity for spark plugs I'm telling you.

Though interestingly enough I did once go to Church in a car. Does that make me a Christian?

Maybe you are a Chrysler.

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Originally posted by dags
"Going to church doesn't make you a christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car"

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very true, as evidenced by the fact that i attend church services regularly. i also read the bible quite a bit, and as a matter of fact, the DVD currently sitting in my play station 2 is The Greatest Story Ever Told, one of my favorite movies. i also go out of my way to read books that describe and expound upon the christian faith.

truly, a necessary condition for being a christian is not an open mind, but rather faith.

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Originally posted by dags
"Going to church doesn't make you a christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car"

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Is the opposite true? Does not going to church make you not a Christian?

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Originally posted by jimmyb270
Is the opposite true? Does not going to church make you not a Christian?
Not going to church doesn't not make you a christian any less than not standing in a garage doesn't not make you not a car.

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Not going to church doesn't not make you a christian any less than not standing in a garage doesn't make you a car.
Shouldn't that be "doesn't make you NOT a car"?

Just thinking out loud.

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Yes you are right. It's corrected.

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Yes you are right. It's corrected.
It's true either way, though, because not standing in a garage neither makes you a car nor makes you not a car.

Not going to church doesn't make you not a rubber duck any less than not standing in a garage doesn't make you not a satanist.

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All I know is the number of negatives in my sentence confused the hell out of me.

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
All I know is the number of negatives in my sentence confused the hell out of me.
Are you still the Antichrist, now that the hell has been confused out of you?

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You can take the hell out the antichrist but you can't take the antichrist out of hell.

Well that's backwards but you get the idea.

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Originally posted by dags
"Going to church doesn't make you a christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car"

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being a christian has alot more to it than going to church. there are more criteria, just like being a car requires more criteria than just standing in a garage. does it make it any less of a car if its outside the garage? Its a car in whatever setting. so a christian should be a christian in any setting. it SHOULD be a way of life.

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