“”I can’t make out what you’re disagreeing with in stfassisi’s post.””
Quix, can you please explain to us what your thoughts are?
I'll cop,on behalf of the Catholic Church to trying to nail down every little nuance, but I say again, that was because controversies arose and in their arguing it was clear that the Good News would be compromised. The nuance nailing was in response to controversy and in order to protect the Gospel.
Consequently, IMHO, it's not a waste of time.
YOU're saying, I think, leave those dusty volumes and attend to my intuition: "Jesus was in some ways less than God."
WE're saying, "Indeed, in some ways he was. We went over that in pretty much detail about 1,500 years ago. You might be interested in what we concluded and why we concluded it. But, regrettably, it does involve dusty volumes."