RE: The Trinity
January 22, 2021 at 5:45 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2021 at 5:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Then I'll take it as a no, and proceed on the assumption that you don't think that they're equivalent?
Moving forward on that assumption, would you consider the belief that human life is precious a religious fact or a shirt fact? Do we think that a person who believed that statement and asserted it would be swayed by our finding a person for sale for 30 cents? OFC not, they'd think it was wrong, not that they were wrong.
This is the relationship between trinitarian belief and rational thought as the doctrine self describes. The set of shirt facts we refer to in our rational deliberation is not the same kind of fact as revealed theology - and no shirt fact can compel us to reject a religious fact - even if shirt facts can compel us to reject other shirt facts. Just as many of us believe (in a manner lumped right in with your religious beliefs) in the value of the life of man regardless of any fact of the price of a man on open market.
From here, we can return to your comments about science progressing because some people died off. There are people who assert trinitarian belief in the same manner that there are people who assert a belief in the value of human life. Perhaps these beliefs do change (or progress) based on people who assert the inviolable articles just dying off. Is that what happened with christianity? Trinitarianism was true because anti-trinitarians died out and now non-trinitarianism is true because the trinitarians are dying out?
Moving forward on that assumption, would you consider the belief that human life is precious a religious fact or a shirt fact? Do we think that a person who believed that statement and asserted it would be swayed by our finding a person for sale for 30 cents? OFC not, they'd think it was wrong, not that they were wrong.
This is the relationship between trinitarian belief and rational thought as the doctrine self describes. The set of shirt facts we refer to in our rational deliberation is not the same kind of fact as revealed theology - and no shirt fact can compel us to reject a religious fact - even if shirt facts can compel us to reject other shirt facts. Just as many of us believe (in a manner lumped right in with your religious beliefs) in the value of the life of man regardless of any fact of the price of a man on open market.
From here, we can return to your comments about science progressing because some people died off. There are people who assert trinitarian belief in the same manner that there are people who assert a belief in the value of human life. Perhaps these beliefs do change (or progress) based on people who assert the inviolable articles just dying off. Is that what happened with christianity? Trinitarianism was true because anti-trinitarians died out and now non-trinitarianism is true because the trinitarians are dying out?
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