RE: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
July 19, 2018 at 11:11 am
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2018 at 11:27 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Mormons and JWs alone exceed the numbers you gave for non trinitarian christians. Further..you are commenting on doctrinal positions..not the beliefs of adherents...which are commonly at odds with their respective institutions. Christology has become a deliciously convoluted mess after the schisms of these last two millenia.
That a position arrived upon through cynical political engineering over a thousand years ago has become a norm among those traditions spiritual successors is a non-event. This argument from consensus and tradition in no way establishes the truth of that position or negates those who hold contrapositive positions which more easily derive from a larger number of direct citations in magic book. Unfortunately, for a majority of that time..to repeat what magic book plainly says and deny the trinity was a crime punishable by execution.
The deification of the character of jesus was a product of second century syncretic mysticism. This is made apparent in magic book itself, in the transformation from marks jesus to johns jesus, and subsequently in the legendary fiction of acts.
That a position arrived upon through cynical political engineering over a thousand years ago has become a norm among those traditions spiritual successors is a non-event. This argument from consensus and tradition in no way establishes the truth of that position or negates those who hold contrapositive positions which more easily derive from a larger number of direct citations in magic book. Unfortunately, for a majority of that time..to repeat what magic book plainly says and deny the trinity was a crime punishable by execution.
The deification of the character of jesus was a product of second century syncretic mysticism. This is made apparent in magic book itself, in the transformation from marks jesus to johns jesus, and subsequently in the legendary fiction of acts.
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