Question about the Unitarian church

[outlawState]

From what I have heard of Unitarianism from its exponents, it engages is an almost opposite error to Trinitarianism based on that similar petension to superior gnosis exercised by strong Trinitarians. I concur that it does appear to be something of an elitist position.

Orthodox Unitarians do not believe that Jesus was merely a prophet, but that he was the true Son of God, but that he had no substantial existence before he was born. His only existence before his birth was as a "son to be revealed" or a conception in the mind of God. The history of the son of God starts from his birth. That is quite true, but then the Logos is not the son of God but the one from whom the son derives. The terminology of Jesus alone being the son of God is correct, but the Logos clearly pre-existed his birth.

Whilst Jesus the son of God to the exclusion of all else is true from a human perspective, it cannot be dogmatized from a divine perspective as entirely outside the realm of biblical teaching. In fact Paul the apostle disdains such a teaching, saying that the world, being of God, was created by and for the Logos. All that can be said biblically is that the Logos was hidden from men before the birth of Christ.

Trinitarians engage is an opposite error by asserting that Jesus the son somehow existed in heaven as God the Son, which is equally untenable and unscriptural.

Unitarian Universalists are fantasists, very much like those many Trintarian churches that have relapsed in this day and age into antinomianism, i.e. acceptance of immorality as not mandating exclusion, and so being in denial of immorality being immorality, and like the ancient gnostics and dualists, repudiating Old Testament law. It is thus repudiation of biblical law that comes to define this particular group, over and above any beliefs as to the hypostasis of God. This group of anti-scriptural secularists would probably make up the vast majority of self-professing "Christians" (so termed) today, outside of Roman Catholicism, whether from the Unitarian side or the Trinitarian side.

 

[Confucian Mormon Buddhist]

Is the Unitarian Church the same as the Unitarian Universalist Church?

If not what are the differences?

No.

I don't know what the Unitarian Church believes, exactly, but the Unitarian Universalists are essentially a Left-wing club that explores religion in general. I say "club" and not "church" because you don't even have to be a theist to be a part of it. They have some generic, "let's all get along" liturgy and invite priests from different faiths to visit and share their religious experiences.

I guess it's like, you aren't a Unitarian Universalist as your religion... you're whatever religion you want to be, and you can be a UU too.

I recommend visiting one if you get the chance. The young people there tend to be rather embarrassing (lot of edgy, fat "screw you grandma, I'm a voodoo follower now" types), but the old people are fascinating.