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". Rich GCU "Truth" Versus Truth (*) Arius and his followers believed that Jesus was created by God the Father at some point in time rather than having existed eternally. I'm not entirely sure how "eternally begotten" is any different to "created", but then I'm not a theologian. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
