Posted on 12/10/2005 9:41:54 AM PST by sionnsar
"Just don't shave. Nothing can be easier, -- it's a natural thing."
The beard is white. Shaved I look 15 years younger and we Greeks are nothing if not vain! :)
As I recall, Nestorius was from Alexandria, and Arius was as well, if remember correctly.......
Arius was a Lybian, I think. He learned his stuff in Antioch and was at least at one point condemned in Alexandria. Nestorius was a Syrian and his big adversary was Cyril of Alexandria.
Early Christians died for their faith actually feeling honored. How many modern-day Christians would be honored to do the same?
I stand corrected...my whole point is most heresies didn't come from the Greeks.....:)
"I stand corrected...my whole point is most heresies didn't come from the Greeks.....:)"
Well...probably the majority did...because we're the most holy! :)
Don't be silly. We read it and practice it. We don't light candles to it, or bow down and ask it to intercede for us, or say 150 chants in a row to it, or any of the other practices that (rightly or wrongly) cause Catholics etc. to be accused of idolatry.
The honest Catholic will concede that, from a certain perspective, some of their practices certainly LOOK like idolatry to an outside observer, and will cite ecumenical councils in defense of their position that they are not -- indeed that's exactly why the councils addressed the issue. But Protestantism's use of the Bible doesn't even come CLOSE. That's just a silly accusation.
You: Don't be silly. We read it and practice it. We don't light candles to it, or bow down and ask it to intercede for us, or say 150 chants in a row to it, or any of the other practices that (rightly or wrongly) cause Catholics etc. to be accused of idolatry.
Nowhere in this thread did I define idolatry of the Bible as burning candles to it or chanting to it or bowing down to it. Idolatry is a spiritual attitude to an object. That object becomes opaque--no longer translucent to the transcendence of the Divinity we call God. The greatest idolatry occurs in the mind without any bodily movement at all. Idolatry is an act of the mind, not the body.
I don't think the vast majority of Protestants have an idolotrous relation to the Bible. But I would say that some do.
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