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To: BroJoeK

And vastly more important than what historians say, it’s acknowledged by at least 95% of all Chirstians, worldwide.
***The deity of christ is acknowledged by christians. Others who are aware of Christ’s incarnation claims but deny it are the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and various other heretical cults. You appear to be among the heretics on this issue.

Only a tiny minority of Christians fall into the category of “Unitarians”, who take a different view of Christ’s divinity — a divinity not-equal to God-the-Father.
However, these Unitarian-types included many of our Founders, and that is why I’m here defending them.
***Defending heresy is stupid, regardless of some founding father’s belief or non-belief.


1,893 posted on 12/20/2013 2:51:27 PM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Kevmo; spirited irish; tacticalogic; betty boop; YHAOS
Kevmo: "The deity of christ is acknowledged by christians.
Others who are aware of Christ’s incarnation claims but deny it are the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and various other heretical cults.
You appear to be among the heretics on this issue."

Like I said: fewer than 5% of all Christians, but some of those denominations are growing quite rapidly.

I can't speak for them, don't know their exact formulations, but it does seem to me that Mormons are quick to acknowledge Jesus as "Son of God", since that's what the New Testament calls him.
The New Testament does not speak of a "Trinity", and I suspect such denominations dismiss it as being a post-NT theological construct.

My own view is that if you can point to it in the Bible, then I accept it as genuine.
In cases where a text is difficult to understand, I generally go with the "Occam's Razor" theory: simplest explanation is best.

Kevmo: "Defending heresy is stupid, regardless of some founding father’s belief or non-belief."

Of course, I don't consider our deistically inspired Unitarian-oriented Freemason-brother Founding Fathers to be "heretics".
But the long sad history of Christians convicting and burning "heretics" at the stake is absolutely their reason why the first clause of their First Amendment says:

Our Founders did not want people like Kevmo and mean-spirited irish going around calling good people "heretics", and neither do I.
Especially on Free Republic!

1,938 posted on 12/21/2013 6:17:06 PM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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