RE: The Trinity Doctrine: Help me out, Christians
February 1, 2018 at 6:22 pm
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2018 at 6:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
@Fake
That's the weakness of a borrowed ladder. In claiming authority from an older tradition and from then current social mores, institutions, and philosophies..they saddled themselves with the baggage and created discordance in the mash up. The doctrine we see (then and today) is a result of trying to round the edges of that mishapen square to create an unbroken circle. A unity, of sorts, which is actually what the root word of "catholicsm" means...amusingly enough. It's an ongoing process, and it will be until each christian cult finally divorces itself from the weight and trappings of the past.
It's been attmpted, both historically and in recent and living memory, thusfar it's failed. Mere christianity, just jesus, "non religious" and non-denom christianities..etc. They still need the ladder, apparently.
That's the weakness of a borrowed ladder. In claiming authority from an older tradition and from then current social mores, institutions, and philosophies..they saddled themselves with the baggage and created discordance in the mash up. The doctrine we see (then and today) is a result of trying to round the edges of that mishapen square to create an unbroken circle. A unity, of sorts, which is actually what the root word of "catholicsm" means...amusingly enough. It's an ongoing process, and it will be until each christian cult finally divorces itself from the weight and trappings of the past.
It's been attmpted, both historically and in recent and living memory, thusfar it's failed. Mere christianity, just jesus, "non religious" and non-denom christianities..etc. They still need the ladder, apparently.
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