Update 10.7 (paint/claims)

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peace be upon him.
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may your god be with you...
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It follows Orthodox right not unlike the Greek and Russian Orthodox churches, just only in Aramaic. I'm sure there are far more differences however that Comrade Max here shall fill you in about.
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In fact, Matbaic Orthodoxy is equivalent to one of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, which include the Ethiopian, Coptic, Syraic, and Armenian Churches. They're monophysite, believing in a totally different relationship between the father, son, and holy ghost that the Greek and Russian Orthodox.
So actually, Greek Orthodox regard the Syriacs as heretics- we're very unlike the Russians and Greeks, who maintain what is known as the Byzantine Orthodox Rite
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Yes. Don't worry about the ecclesiastical jargon. My explanation would be much longer without it though, I can assure you ;)
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chris288 wrote:Roman Catholocism is the largest single sect.
Protestantism is larger but it is a group of religions that have little in common other than a deep hatred for Roman Catholics.
Hey, watch out, Denomination is the word you're looking for. Sect is for the ones that are outside (ie JW's and Mormans).
Most protestants have nothing against Catholics now, it was just 5 centuries ago when they were stuffing up big time ...
And Max, all Christians agree Christ is the Son of God. If you don't, you're not a Christian, you're just a sect that happened to borrow the bible and some ideas. Christianity is, essentially, about Christ, Son of God, death and resurrection. Without those key portions, they're just not Christian ...

I could go into biblical interpretation, salvation by grace vs works, and purgatory, but I'll leave that for another time ...
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Well, let's just say us Unitarians have a bit of a different definition of God. After all, Christ being son of a deist god is merely metaphorical.
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Merely literal ...
Unitarians aye? (Better wiki that ...)
Almost all knowing Wikipedia wrote:Today, many Unitarian Universalists do not consider themselves Christians, even if they share some beliefs quite similar to those of mainstream Christians.
Having various relatives as Pastors, I'd have to agree with them that denying the trinity or the divinity of Christ is not mainstream christianity, at best it is a sect ... under the standard definition of the word, anyway ...
No offense Max, but I've argued with too many atheists to let anyone get away with saying that Christ being the son of God is merely metaphorical.
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You're welcome to your own beliefs, but I just had to throw Lewis' passage out there, he's such a good apologetic ...
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No offense Max, but I've argued with too many atheists to let anyone get away with saying that Christ being the son of God is merely metaphorical.
Hey, hey hey- I'm an Anti Dawkinist just like you- I've had to argue with a good few Atheists in my time as well ;)
I just don't agree that Unitarianism is a cult. There is no confirmation of any kind, no strict dogma or ritual to be followed... we're a religion, just no way a cult.
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Sorry, did I say cult? I don't think I did ...

Sect would be the appropriate term. But I'm interested that people can take any sort of productive religion out of Christianity without Christ being the Son of God (which leads to the Ressurection, which leads to the whole point of Christianity) ... but I'm sure you've thought all this through...

What were your thoughts on Lewis' argument?
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