jabel
jabel

Also, about that last post, could you monotheists please let the rank and file know this is a complicated question, please? Most of the Christians where I live think anything that isn’t fundamentalist Christianity is straight up demons. If we’re going to start encouraging a more enchanted world, then we also...

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JohnBrady
JohnBrady

@jabel Where is “here”?

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jabel
jabel

@JohnBrady Where I live. Good clarification–I’ll update. I don’t mean micro.blog!

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ReaderJohn
ReaderJohn

@jabel I would say I’m a henotheist., but that seems to entail the legitimacy of worshipping the lesser gods. I think even a fairly casual reading of the O.T. reflects henotheistic monolatry.

“There is one God, [fill in the blank],” is not a Christian affirmation.

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devilgate
devilgate

@ReaderJohn
> “There is one God, [fill in the blank],” is not a Christian affirmation.

If you fill in the blank with ‘The Father almighty’ you’ve essentially got the start of the RC (and CoE?) creed!

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ReaderJohn
ReaderJohn

@devilgate Forgive me for throwing a stink bomb into the feed. I don’t want to start a theological debate. The offending paragraph was mostly to deny that there’s a Christian strict monotheism like that of the Shahada in Islam.

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devilgate
devilgate

@ReaderJohn Doesn’t bother me, I’m just pleased to have learned a new word!

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