Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Christians. If there's one thing most non-Christians at Harvard hold sacred, it's Darwin. Yet "born again" Christians have doubts. Donovan says the literal truth of the Adam and Eve story doesn't matter. "What matters is that man took his own path and departed from God." This is the source of the world's current misery...
...cause problems at Harvard. Dwight Fletcher '79, who has started a Christian athletes discipleship group with his roommate Steve Brannan '79, says he occasionally found George Wald's lectures in Nat. Sci. 5, "The Nature of Living Things," offensive. "During one of his lectures last year he said God didn't create man, but man created God. I hissed him when he said that, but then immediately I felt bad about doing...
...extension of the conviction that the Bible is the word of God, and of the complete truth of Christianity, is a belief in evangelism, the practice of spreading the word of Christ. Some shy away from the word because of its forceful connotation. "More people have been lost by a pushy evangelist than have been saved," Joanna Jones '79 says. Duff says the word connotes, "holider than thou, and my dumping my trip on you." He prefers to think of its as letting the good news be visible, and imitating Christ in one's own life...
...share their faith with friends because Christ is the only way to salvation. Pierce quotes, "Nobody comes to the Father but through me." To Christians, hell exists because the Bible speaks of it, although conceptions range from fire and brimstone to the devastation of simply missing out on God when the possibility exists. Those who follow other religions have not found Christ and will not be saved...
Pierce says, "Jews believe in the true God. All the early Christians were Jews. However, nowadays Jews are aware of Jesus and should be aware of over 300 testimonies in the Old Testament relating to the first coming of Christ. They should realize Christ is the Messiah...