(March 10, 2019 at 11:46 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote:I'm glad you're fine now, btw. I wasn't aware you suffered from DID and wasn't referencing a specific person at all. I apologize if you took that as an attack on you and anything you've gone through. I would never use someone's personal hardships as leverage or lie for anyone, especially Christ. I was simply illustrating that physiological differences in DID personality's hosts show that 2 distinct entities can exist in what we perceive as one "host". Which was only to illustrate that being 100% man and 100% God are not mutually exclusive as a concept because a very real modern concept that is similar exists.
As to schisms, introspection does cause fracturing typically, but we wouldn't want to be seen as blinding following a doctrine. We can't work on improvement without introspection and we can't be divisive, but we can't follow blindly forever and be unified. Guess it's the rock and the hard place.
Or there could be a group of believers that appreciate and respect difference as a necessary part of God's plan and have unity services regularly with other denominations to rally their people around the concept of knowing what you believe and why, and appreciating someone's differing perspective and focusing on the common ground you share and getting on with serving the community instead of bickering over differences.
Fact time. I didn't grow up Catholic so the apostle's creed, Nicene creed weren't really taught. In fact very little, if any denominational or ecumenical creeds ever played into my formative learning. Definitely not the earlier creeds of the Didache, Synod of Antioch, Apostolic constitutions, etc. Neither were Judaic formative beliefs included, or other denominations belief differences. Most of the formative training I went through was "He's got the whole world, in His hands", verse memorization and a few skits and Bible stories. I believe in the concept of 100% God/100% man, because I've researched the arguments from both sides and been persuaded that it is true because it seems the most supported, doesn't exceed viability and fits neatly with my understanding of the operation and character of Christ and God.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari