Thursday, October 06, 2005
Where the Myth?
Someone on a friends blog said:
"The only problem with this argument is agreeing on what the "the trajectory of belief,which Christians in all places at all times have always believed." Isn't this more of a myth than actual reality?"
Rather than take up a whole lot of that illuminaries blog, I'll respond on my own.
The Myth is that this is a myth not a reality. The reality is What Christians in all places and at all times have always believed is a Truth and I believe Knowable.
Do not all Christians (or most of them, a vast Majority) believe:
God is a Trinity?
That Jesus is God and the Son of God?
That Jesus is the way we reconcile with God?
That Jesus will come again?
That there is a Heaven to be won and a Hell to Shun? that the Evil One is alive and well on planet earth? That we will have to give an account for our lives? That sin destroys? That the Bible, the Scriptures were written/inspired by God?
I said (admittedly a little flippantly) that this is true only if you are not Orthodox. But don't even the Protestants accept the Ecumenical Councils? (Even if they reject Chalcedon they accept to a great extent the ones before it don't they?)
Can not all Christians agree on the Creed? (Even if you say "No Creed but Christ" you have a Creed..)
Do I not then see that we can say what All Christians in always and at all times and in all places have believed? Even if your flavour is not Eastern Orthodox?
Therefore, where the myth?
"The only problem with this argument is agreeing on what the "the trajectory of belief,which Christians in all places at all times have always believed." Isn't this more of a myth than actual reality?"
Rather than take up a whole lot of that illuminaries blog, I'll respond on my own.
The Myth is that this is a myth not a reality. The reality is What Christians in all places and at all times have always believed is a Truth and I believe Knowable.
Do not all Christians (or most of them, a vast Majority) believe:
God is a Trinity?
That Jesus is God and the Son of God?
That Jesus is the way we reconcile with God?
That Jesus will come again?
That there is a Heaven to be won and a Hell to Shun? that the Evil One is alive and well on planet earth? That we will have to give an account for our lives? That sin destroys? That the Bible, the Scriptures were written/inspired by God?
I said (admittedly a little flippantly) that this is true only if you are not Orthodox. But don't even the Protestants accept the Ecumenical Councils? (Even if they reject Chalcedon they accept to a great extent the ones before it don't they?)
Can not all Christians agree on the Creed? (Even if you say "No Creed but Christ" you have a Creed..)
Do I not then see that we can say what All Christians in always and at all times and in all places have believed? Even if your flavour is not Eastern Orthodox?
Therefore, where the myth?
