RE: The Trinity
January 19, 2021 at 2:04 pm
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2021 at 2:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 19, 2021 at 1:55 pm)Drich Wrote: not all churches worship via creed. the whole nondenominational movement do not surrender their minds nor hearts to a traditional creed. not to say they can not have one, they simply do not honor tradition for the sake of tradition. for instance they may take and accept 90% of the Nicene creed but leave out the bits the surrenders mind and thought to bind interpretation that we now know is wrong.
Of course. Cafeteria christianity is part of the rise in functional non-trinitarianism in contemporary evangelical beliefs. In this case, in your case, it's history repeating itself - but the position of orthodoxy is no longer as capable of enforcing it's own vision on you as it was in the past.
A christianity unburdened by doctrine and creed may end up being the predominant form in two hundred or two thousand years as a matter of orthodoxy rather than functionality - and just imagine the question of this thread repeated then.
-and I suppose it's worth pointing out that your own position is not free of creedal authority but premised on it. You'd be a representative of some halfway point between orthodoxy and that future christianity. Beyond an illogical compromise or self referentially false doctrine, beyond any need to entertain them, even. Where no christian truth is premised on the factual truth of any specific article, item, or invocation of the faith.
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