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To: Cronos
In the early centuries after Jesus, for instance, the very questions What does it mean to be a follower of Christ, and what is such a person supposed to believe? were completely unsettled.

Not for the followers of Lord Jesus Christ alone.
407 posted on 05/14/2015 8:49:28 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero
In the early centuries after Jesus, for instance, the very questions What does it mean to be a follower of Christ, and what is such a person supposed to believe? were completely unsettled. Not for the followers of Lord Jesus Christ alone.

Not really, you had Marcionites who considered the OT god as a demiurge

Ditto for Gnosticism

And then Sabellianism

The Sabellianists taught that Jesus Christ and God the Father were not distinct persons, but two.aspects or offices of one person. According to them, the three persons of the Trinity exist only in God’s relation to man, not in objective reality.

416 posted on 05/14/2015 8:58:26 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Resettozero
Now, the theology of the Sabellians IS a powerful heresy -- The Sabellianists taught that Jesus Christ and God the Father were not distinct persons, but two.aspects or offices of one person. According to them, the three persons of the Trinity exist only in God’s relation to man, not in objective reality.

You can see the linkage through Marcionism, Sabellianism, Arianism etc

417 posted on 05/14/2015 8:59:12 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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