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To: PROLIFE who wrote (234258)	3/6/2002 2:24:03 AM
From: DOUG H	Respond to of 769667

Dave, as you have probably already discovered, this forum is an extemely difficult forum in which to discuss a topic with the depth of spiritual matters. My beliefs today are the result of years of discussions, readings, attempts and failures at practicing various principles. I usually avoid discussing this topic like the plague due in part to these limitations. I simply find it difficult to express myself adequately in this forum so please bear with me. I am no student of the Bible. I have taken bits and pieces from various books and teachings but what I have come to believe is that what Jesus was talking about when he says to "go thru him" was living a life in accordance with his principles. 2 ideas come to mind, "Bleesed are them who know these things and do them. The emphasis here is on WHAT WE DO. Or "by their fruits you shall know them". Then there are the lessons of how we treat "the lesser among us". I guess to sum it up, Christ's lesson of life was about how to treat other people and it is in the degree in which we live in this manner is the degree to which we are "going thru him". I hope I've made sense. Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. IMO, this speaks to the difficulty in actually practicing an unselfish, spiritual way of life. Yet it is the only way by which that one can experience the peace that a close relationship with God brings.