RE: The Trinity
January 23, 2021 at 1:21 am
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2021 at 1:48 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Did you think that the op was asking about something else, and haven't all of your own responses been revisions -to- that doctrine?
I also discussed the phenomena of functionally non-trinitarian christians in thread, seems to be more than a few of those. The distinction between themselves and anti-trinitarians is that by creedal invocation they are trinitarians. They say they believe in trinitarian doctrine. When they express what they mean when they say that - they provide an anti-trinitarian position. Some position that violates the traditional understanding, or, as our other friend noted, immediately violates the position in it's own setup. The whole situation would be a paradox in itself were it not for such a ready answer.
Decline in religiosity is the cause as surmised by sociologists and church leaders. The strength of christians conviction in the trinity is no longer greater than the strength of their conviction in rational argument. Do you think it declined because people began to put reason over revealed theology, or because the people who put revealed theology over reason are dying off?
That rule up there you assert about the meaninglessness of catholic doctrine in a discussion about a catholic doctrine in the absence of a breathing catholic seems like it might not be a rule. One day there may be no breathing catholics at all - and we'll still be able to refer to the beliefs they produced, and to any existent group's disagreement with them. They had a tendency to write things down.
I also discussed the phenomena of functionally non-trinitarian christians in thread, seems to be more than a few of those. The distinction between themselves and anti-trinitarians is that by creedal invocation they are trinitarians. They say they believe in trinitarian doctrine. When they express what they mean when they say that - they provide an anti-trinitarian position. Some position that violates the traditional understanding, or, as our other friend noted, immediately violates the position in it's own setup. The whole situation would be a paradox in itself were it not for such a ready answer.
Decline in religiosity is the cause as surmised by sociologists and church leaders. The strength of christians conviction in the trinity is no longer greater than the strength of their conviction in rational argument. Do you think it declined because people began to put reason over revealed theology, or because the people who put revealed theology over reason are dying off?
That rule up there you assert about the meaninglessness of catholic doctrine in a discussion about a catholic doctrine in the absence of a breathing catholic seems like it might not be a rule. One day there may be no breathing catholics at all - and we'll still be able to refer to the beliefs they produced, and to any existent group's disagreement with them. They had a tendency to write things down.
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