RE: Rant against anti-atheist agnostics.
September 22, 2014 at 12:21 am
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2014 at 12:31 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Redemption, vicarious redemption. Whether or not it was sacrificial is something that varies from sect to sect. I would hesitate to state that anything is ever settled in any finite sense regarding religion, no more or less so with christianity. Eastern Orthodoxy offers a subtle difference on this count. Christs crucifixion was not sacrifice (he loses nothing, death cannot contain him - it isn't his blood doing the magic, etc) but it is still redemptive. Without this man would not have a path available to him to achieve theosis. In their view, a man must live a christian life, we must be baptised into partaking of christs death, we must repent, etc etc etc. The act in and of itself is not sufficient in order for us to find salvation, nor is mere belief in him or the act. While this is a significant difference (from, say, the catholic concept of the same) what is not changed is the redemptive nature of the act, and it's vicariousness. You, for example, Whatevs, could not have erected that bridge (no matter how good a life you lived) - even though you may now cross it and be redeemed.
(tons of small differences from eastern orthodoxy, btw, you could barely perceive any given issue in a vacuum- but they all amount to one massive theological dispute as a whole)
(tons of small differences from eastern orthodoxy, btw, you could barely perceive any given issue in a vacuum- but they all amount to one massive theological dispute as a whole)
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