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To: xzins
Speaking of the attack-word "cult", here is Jeff Lindsay's apologetics page countering that notion as it relates to us:

Do Latter-Day Saints belong to a cult?

You will notice that he goes into pagan Greek philosophy as well, because the principal reason people give me for attacking my faith as a cult is that I don't believe the "right" thing about the Trinity, the Godhead. I have been pointing out how the supposedly "right" thing comes from 4th-century theologians who were heavily influenced by pagan Greek philosophy.

Jeff writes:

the creeds from the Council of Nicaea and the related Council of Chalcedon were theological, philosophical statements developed in the fourth century A.D. amid intense debate about the nature of God. Influenced heavily by Greek philosophy (Neo-Platonism), these creeds teach the concept of an abstract, transcendent, "consubstantial" unity in trinity, one in three, coequal, existing incomprehensibly without body, parts, or passions, wholly other and outside space and time as we know it.
I am pointing out that it is improper for people to condemn another's Christian faith because they go with the apostles rather than with the philosopher-theologians.
1,782 posted on 02/06/2002 11:27:07 PM PST by White Mountain
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To: White Mountain
White, what's the sense in responding to your posts when you won't answer specific questions. This is over. But not for the same reason as with the calvinists: they didn't like some of my questions, but they got around to answering them.

Debate's over, your side loses.

1. Is the group founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon (Moonies) a cult? If so, what makes them so?

3. What are the names of great new world cities from the Book of Mormon and their locations?

Seems simple enough. I just stop there. See you some other debate in the future.

1,784 posted on 02/07/2002 2:41:58 AM PST by xzins
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