-Removed-Well, it can be simply argued that Christ is the way to God, and those who reject Christ as God are not actually worshiping the Christ of the Bible.
The dilution of the message of Christ, and reducing man to God, is heresy, and heresy is of particular interest to people not just because someone's individual soul is jeopardized... but because the Church as a whole can be undermined by this kind of dissent.
@Philokalia
He wants some kind of award for never allowing the word "trinity" to pass through his lips, it seems.
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-Removed-If I may from the possibly unitarian-agnostic peanut gallery, it does seem strange that a particular belief would be needed for the perhaps imaginary prize of salvation.
It seems like a lock-picking exercise to open the vaults of Heaven. "Think Blue, Count Two. Count Zero Interrupt. All Systems Nominal."
"Open are the double doors of the horizon. Its vaults are unlocked."
However, if it turns out there actually is another side to the world after I croak, I'll try to put in a good word for both you fellows.
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@philokalia saidWhen it comes to the doctrine of the Trinity, I think we would only be diluting the message of a committee living in an imperial context.
The dilution of the message of Christ, and reducing man to God, is heresy, and heresy is of particular interest to people not just because someone's individual soul is jeopardized... but because the Church as a whole can be undermined by this kind of dissent.
"Heresy" is just another word for thought-crime. I wonder what Joe Stalin thought of the Magisterium. I regret that I don't know the equivalent term for the Orthodox Church.
Imaginary threats (such as jeopardy of the soul) can be used for real-world control, as I'm sure many charlatans, connivers, and controllers can attest.
Depending on what we mean by Church, it might be a good thing if it were undermined. Maybe we could ask Dostoevsky to help, In his early days he was a military engineer.
@rajk999 saidYou do know that Trinidad means "Trinity", right? We don't want the whole island getting smote because of you.
I have to strongly disagree with you. Followers of Christ do not ask for advice neither seek the approval of false teachers and the Devils angels.
Also, how do you feel about "Saint" Paul? Even that manic busybody did run back to Rome to check with James and Peter et al. Was Paul a false teacher? Were James and Peter?
Are you a rock, or an island, or both?
@caesar-salad saidThere are a lot of things we can say are thought crimes! Suggesting there isn't any reason to be concern about how we live and why we do the things we do can produce horrible things. There are reasons for restraint; we can see how life plays out in the real world with no restrictions and with it. If there is meaning in this life, we are not the source of it, that would have to come with the cause why we are here. The reality we find ourselves in, what is true is the only real thing we should be concerning ourselves with, anything not true, well, is false.
When it comes to the doctrine of the Trinity, I think we would only be diluting the message of a committee living in an imperial context.
"Heresy" is just another word for thought-crime. I wonder what Joe Stalin thought of the Magisterium. I regret that I don't know the equivalent term for the Orthodox Church.
Imaginary threats (such as jeopardy of the soul) can b ...[text shortened]... re undermined. Maybe we could ask Dostoevsky to help, In his early days he was a military engineer.
@kellyjay saidBe that as it may, but, judging by your words [above], it is your own personal perspective about "the cause why we are here" that gives "meaning in this life" for you. You are the source of that perspective. You own it. The world is full of people whose perspectives give them "meaning in this life".
If there is meaning in this life, we are not the source of it, that would have to come with the cause why we are here.