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To: muawiyah
The reason Unitarians aren't Christian is simple ~ they are not Trinitarians

Are you seriously proposing that anyone who does not accept the idea of the Trinity cannot be a Christian? By that logic there were no Christians before the Council of Nicaea at the earliest.

65 posted on 04/07/2012 6:38:25 AM PDT by Notary Sojac (Mi tio esta enfermo, pero la carretera es verde!)
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To: Notary Sojac
The enunciation of a doctrine in a proclamation by a council simply means it has been recognized and was always there all along ~ and it's pretty clear that's the case.

So, yeah, if you're not a Trinitarian........ and just take it from there.

Remember, at some point the early Christians weren't even called Christians. They were first called Christians at Antioch. Before that they were Jews.

77 posted on 04/07/2012 8:05:25 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Notary Sojac
By that logic there were no Christians before the Council of Nicaea at the earliest.

Logic?

There were PLENTY of them!

The council merely focused what had been commonly accepted into a precise definition. It did not CREATE the definition.

95 posted on 04/07/2012 10:08:26 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Notary Sojac
"Are you seriously proposing that anyone who does not accept the idea of the Trinity cannot be a Christian?"

Yes.

Christians are those who believe that Jesus is God, the second person (hypostasis) of the Trinity and consubstantial with the God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.

97 posted on 04/07/2012 10:29:15 AM PDT by Natural Law (If you love the Catholic Church raise your hands, if not raise your standards.)
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