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goddardbe@netscape.net wrote...
>
> peter.gibbs@charter.net wrote:
>
> > You guys crack me up with your insistence on "right understanding",
> > "correct doctrine", and, for Christ's sake, proper spelling?!
>
> > b) it really isn't all that important, as neither right understanding,
> > correct doctrine, nor proper spelling will save you (except perhaps in
> > a spelling bee.)
>
> What cracks me up is illogical pontificators who 1. insist on their
> own doctrine and yet say doctrine is not important and 2. act as
> if doctrine was different from the faith.
>
> Faith comes by hearing the Word, and people won't hear the Word
> if it isn't preached. And if your doctrine isn't correct, then
> you're not preaching the Word. Doctrine IS the vehicle by which
> we hear about God and strengthen our faith.
>
> > Only by the grace of God, which is a free gift, are we saved.
>
> This is true. It's also a bit of doctrine.

And as a bit of doctrine, the big difference between it and what
'today' is supposed to mean is that it's one we can all agree on.

But go back to arguing about where a comma is supposed to be inserted
when translating from a source language that doesn't even have them.

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Continuing:

basicallyblues wrote:

> 2) second reason for heresy, the
> unwillingness to accept and live with tension in Christian theology.
>
> True. But this is based on a misunderstanding of Christian theology.
> When so-called Christians tried to integrate Greek philosophy

This is both presumptive and unlearned. You have not done your home
work.

> into pure
> Christian truth there was an obvious tension. The Platonic trinity
for
> example clashed with the Bible but the apostae church wanted to find
> away to cram the trinity down everyone's throat.
>
Platonism was not trinitarianism it was tri-modal. You do not
understand what Plato was teaching if you wish to somehow brand this on
Biblical Trinitarianism. It won't work. This is something which many
JfW's have come in here espousing but it is plain they have never
studied Platonic thought processes.

It is confessed that Justin was confused as to the HS. And that it
could be concluded that he tries to understand the Spirit regard its
existence as the 3rd being in Plato's writings. Kelly comments on this
in "Early Christian Doctrines," p. 102. Theophilus was the first to
use the term "Triad."

Also, Platonism primary comes to bear when discussing the doctrine of
the soul. We could venture