Sheldon VanaukenIt is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non- Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.
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People who do not believe that Jesus is the Son of God do not believe because He is the Son of God. The point is that they do not believe because He is a man who has lived as a man and died as a man. They do not believe because He is the Son of God. For them, Christianity is incidental to Jesus' humanity or to their own humanity.
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