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A quarter of British Christians do not believe in the resurection
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RE: A quarter of British Christians do not believe in the resurection
(April 13, 2017 at 3:48 pm)SteveII Wrote:
(April 13, 2017 at 3:22 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Christians have been retconning scripture from day one.  Your declaration means nothing in the face of the history of continuous reconstruction of your sources.  But I see you yet again appealing to the No True Christians fallacy.  They might not be Christians in your eyes, but that just underscores the subjectivity of your opinion.  The 'truth' of such biblical passages is whatever self-proclaimed Christians say it is, and that is constantly changing.

“I have become convinced that we must put an end to atonement theology or there will be no future for the Christian faith. ”
― John Shelby Spong

I hear this line of thinking often repeated here. I just don't see how the interpretation of NT scripture has changed since the beginning. Do you have examples of where the Apostolic Fathers' writings on doctrine differed from Nicea, to Augustine, to Luther, to Calvin, to Wesley to today?


Quote:It is readily discovered that the theologians of the primitive age disagreed regarding the soul's immortality.1 Several of them "were persuaded that the soul was mortal by nature but could become immortal by good works, or, as others preferred to stress, by union with the Spirit of God, a teaching they thought to find in St. Paul" (Brady, p. 465). Specifically the teaching of innate immortality is absent from the Apostolic Fathers, those Christian writers who lived nearest to or whose lives partly paralleled the last of the apostles. The trend toward the view of inherent immortality, it will be shown, developed with the subsequent Ante-Nicene Fathers.

http://www.truthaccordingtoscripture.com...O_iJWdw-Uk

As I said, constantly changing.
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RE: A quarter of British Christians do not believe in the resurection - by Angrboda - April 13, 2017 at 4:43 pm

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