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Ask Angellous about his beliefs (Christianity)

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angellous_evangellous

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So tell me, Angellous, what do you think about the current popularity of all these, "Ask me anything threads."
 
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angellous_evangellous

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They're ok as long as people as insightful questions.:beach: :foot:
 
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angellous_evangellous

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angellous_evangellous said:
They're ok as long as people as insightful questions.:beach: :foot:
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Well there are plenty of good questions on this wonderful thread.
 
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angellous_evangellous

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angellous_evangellous said:
Well there are plenty of good questions on this wonderful thread.
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Quite so, Angellous, and very useful answers. :clap

So, Angellous, would you rather be born rich or beautiful?:confused:
 
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angellous_evangellous

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angellous_evangellous said:
Quite so, Angellous, and very useful answers. :clap

So, Angellous, would you rather be born rich or beautiful?:confused:
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Beautiful so I could marry rich, or rich so that I could buy beauty.

I guess both are equally shallow.:cover:
 
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uumckk16

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Who are your favorite modern-day scholars?

And the million-dollar question - what do you think defines a Christian?

:D
 
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angellous_evangellous

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uumckk16 said:
Who are your favorite modern-day scholars?
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David Balch ..... .......John T. Fitzgerald
Carolyn Osiek..... .....J. Fitzmeyer
Abraham Malherbe.... Scott Bartchey
Victor Paul Furnish.....Troels Engberg-Peterson

I like plenty of folks in the Context Group as well.
 
dawny0826

dawny0826

Mother Heathen
angellous_evangellous said:
Precisely. I affirm the resurrection because if I didn't, I could not call myself a Christian. I confess the resurrection, but I don't have to confess the miracles. The confession is too closely married to Christian theology.



That's not true. There are plenty of atheists and non-Christians who have PhD's in New Testament teaching and writing.
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Hey, AE, just out of curiosity...do you not consider the resurrection within itself to be some sort of miracle?
 
dawny0826

dawny0826

Mother Heathen
How do you feel about the Trinitarian view of the Godhead?

Do you "see" biblical justification for Trinitarian beliefs?
 
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angellous_evangellous

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dawny0826 said:
How do you feel about the Trinitarian view of the Godhead?

Do you "see" biblical justification for Trinitarian beliefs?
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Sure.

I affirm the Trinity as represented in Christian orthodoxy. I used to be a "strong" Trinitarian, but after a review of early Christian history this past semster, I noticed that the majority of early Christian creeds were "Bitarian," only mentioning the Father and the Son, and not the Holy Spirit.

To me, the claim that the Trinity doctrine is monotheism seems to defy logic. I think a more precise term would be "false" or "weak" monotheism rather than "true" or "absolute" monothesism characteristic of some Jewish groups and Islam. Trinitarian Christianity should be called "false" monotheism or henotheism in order to recognize the logical acrobatics that Christian theologians have to perform to force three Gods into One. No-one would recognize Christianity as monotheism without the persistent illogical insistence from Christian theologians that it actually is.
 
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