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To: Lane3 who wrote (83820)	9/12/2008 6:19:05 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 544177

For/against is not the same notion as belief/absence of belief. The absence of belief is not opposition. It is either neutrality or disinterest The actual words are from Christ and he said "He that is not with me is against me" in the Book of Matthew. One can't be neutral because Christ is denying man that option. An agnostic is someone trying to maintain neutrality and say I don't know. Since this is not allowed, such a person becomes, by default you might say, an unbeliever and thus an atheist. Now the agnostic might want to say 'phooey on that.....I don't know what I really believe, so that makes me an agnostic'. The problem with this is that it doesn't matter what we think about ourselves and how we label ourselves. In the end, it only matters what God thinks. And he has already told us, thru Christ that we don't have the option of being neutral. I'm only explaining and defining the concept of how one can't be an agnostic in the eyes of God. I'm trying not to be or sound judgmental. OK?