| Booh! said: (1) "The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God" (John 19:7) He was condemned for blasphemy, you know. (2) No, it's a concept present since the inception of Christianity: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19) The Council of Nicaea just stated that it was a dogma, to counter the teachings of Arius. (3) False. Coptic Orthodox christians are and always were trinitarian. A friend of mine is Ethiopian. There is an ethiopian church in Rome built in the XII century, if they were not trinitarian (i.e. heretic) that would not be possible. (4) That's common knowledge and it's not a problem. If you don't know the exact date, choose one. Pope Gregorius reformed the calendar, not because Christmas wasn't on Christmas, but because the equinox wasn't on the 21st of March. (5) Sunni muslims can follow different schools of interpretation of the Qu'ran, none of which is superior to the others. For example the Grand Mufti of Cairo (who was appointed by Mubarak, a secularist authoritarian leader, by the way) said that women can wear trousers, however some sudanese women were lashed for wearing trousers. They're both right, from an islamic perspective. I laugh hard when someone says that Islam condems this or that: perhaps there's a school of thought that condems such actions, but may be other schools, equally authoritative, that think differently. |
1. That isn't Jesus speaking.
2. Read my post above about this verse.
3. Yep, picked Ethiopians incorrectly. But, a quick search for nontrinitarian christians will reveal several others. Wikipedia page has a nice list.
4. If Romans did change important dates like these, what else did they change?
5. Of course there are differing view points. If everyone believed what I believe there would be no X360.
