Sentences with phrase «happens upon conversion»
And while it's an overstatement to narrate conversion in terms of a change in nature — Abram's becoming Abraham doesn't imperil the integrity of his human nature; nor still Sarai's becoming Sarah, or Jacob's Israel, Saul's Paul, and so ever on — equally slippery is gross understatement, or intimating that nothing of metaphysical interest happens upon conversion.
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When Christians relay their stories as if their original «conversion» moments didn't actually count, just because there was a more powerful turning point that happened later along the road that makes for a better story, the truth is being infringed upon.