On 29 Jul 2007, at 13:55, Richard Baker wrote: > William said: > >> It has a supernatural God that makes the world, a supernatural Jesus, >> it has Jesus coming back from death, it has heaven and it has >> resurrection and blah blah blah. If you don't believe all of this >> tosh you are not a Christian. > > I think it's possible to disbelieve some aspects of it while > believing other things of a similar character and still be a > Christian. For example, the Nicene Creed was a formal rejection of > Arianism(*) - that's what the "eternally begotten of the Father... > begotten, not made" part is about - but I don't think anyone could > sensibly argue that Arians aren't Christians, and the First Council > of Nicaea certainly didn't stamp out what was afterwards the "Arian > heresy".
Which cults are or are not really Christian is one of those religious questions... The Latter Day Saints and Jehovah's Witnesses represent themselves as Christian but reject the Nicene Creed. Some Protestant churches claim Catholics aren't really Christians and the Pope has recently reaffirmed that the Catholic church is the One True Christian church. Zealots Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ 'The true sausage buff will sooner or later want his own meat grinder.' -- Jack Schmidling _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
