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I can't even sit through an entire service at the Methodist Churches anymore. I want to vomit....I get angry - and they make me sing stupid songs that haven't an ounce of inspiration. I might as well be going to a Universalist Unitarian service.

What's the difference between a Unitarian and a United Methodist Church service?

23 posted on 04/21/2003 12:45:53 PM PDT by rface (Ashland, Missouri)
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To: rface
"What's the difference between a Unitarian and a United Methodist Church service?"

I don't know the difference between the services, but the Unitarians deny the doctrine of the Trinity -- an ancient Arian heresy. The nature of the argument deals with same substance (homo ousion: Trinitarians) vs. like substance (homoi ousion: Arians).

Trinitarians hold that the Son of God, though a distinct person, is of the same nature, essence, and being of the Father -- eternally begotten (not created). Arians believed that the Father created the Son, and that the Son is subordinate to the Father.

This controversy is what brought the Council of Nicea together in 325 A.D. -- this brought about the Nicene Creed, which reflects the basic beliefs of Catholicism, Protestantism, and Eastern Orthodoxy. Homo ousion (same substance) prevailed.

42 posted on 04/24/2003 1:53:01 PM PDT by scott7278 (Four more years! Four more years!)
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