“A point you can’t sustain without misrepresenting #116.”
And yet you turn around and write, immediately after:
“The brotherhood of Christianity is not yours to define nor limit regardless of what you think you know and understand.”
IOW, it’s ‘arrogance’ to condemn Mormonism or other anti-Trinitarian religious groups as cults, even though all of holy scripture and 2,000 years of Christianity back me up. You’re also appealing to a relativist view of the facts, since I cannot define anything based on those facts since it is impossible to “know and understand” anything.
If you do not “know and understand” these things, what makes you think everybody has that problem?
If this isn’t what you mean, then what do you mean? Is Mormonism a false religion? Is Athanasius incorrect to say that all Christians confess the trinity? Is Paul correct to declare that anyone who teaches a different Gospel than his is accursed?
These silly little games we play with the relativists are obnoxious. We play them EVERY TIME the LDS or other weird groups pop up.
You’re also appealing to a relativist view of the facts, since I cannot define anything based on those facts since it is impossible to “know and understand” anything.
***Upthread he appeals to his own catholicism, so he would eventually get narrowed down to a ‘mere’ definition.
Is Mormonism a false religion?
***Yes. It is a heretical cult that denies Jesus was God Himself.
Is Athanasius incorrect to say that all Christians confess the trinity?
***Probably not.
Is Paul correct to declare that anyone who teaches a different Gospel than his is accursed?
***Paul is correct. No doubt such relativists would accuse Paul of arrogance or somesuch thing, and in the same wide swath they accuse Christ of not being Christlike when He condemns false teachers as ‘sons of satan’.
These silly little games we play with the relativists are obnoxious. We play them EVERY TIME the LDS or other weird groups pop up.
***They desire to be inclusive, but Christ did not have such a desire and so they’re being antichristian in that regard. So, let’s sit down and define the terms. Open up a trinitarian caucus thread that says “this is what we believe and why” and anyone who argues against such a belief is a heretic (if they call themselves christian). For me it’s simple: Jesus is God Himself. Anyone who promotes a different view, whether it’s polytheism, pantheism, Jesus was a demiGod, or anything else, is a heretic. Simple.