Practical theologian, Biblical Unitarian, Fellowship starter.
Ithilien
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Anthony Burgoyne retweeted
Finally, you can send them this playlist of basic educational videos about unitarian Christianity. youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
Roman Catholic Church -> Roman Nicene Church
Eastern Orthodox Church -> Eastern Nicene Church
Branding matters.
Basic Biblical fact: Jesus is distinguished from God a vast number of times in the New Testament. Not just 'the Father', but 'God' with no qualifiers.
😂 Arius was actually about 40 years older than Athanasius, so this is a weird anachronistic image (similar to Trinitarian claims about what NT authors were thinking, tbh!).
Tired of mini-Heisers yipping at you in the comments?
Start with this introduction to the Two Powers heresy by @RestitutioSF .
Video linked below. 👇
Why You Should Care About the Two Powers Heresy:
youtube.com/watch?v=mVPl92PH…
Anthony Burgoyne retweeted
Im a Unitarian. I find both groups to be wrong on this.
“The First and the Last” is not a title of deity. It’s a title essentially meaning “one and only”. God the Father is the only Creator. Jesus is the only one who died and resurrected for us.
Jesus is a human and not God. But that is not a demotion any more than saying your mom is not your dad.
Anthony Burgoyne retweeted
UCA Conference Friday Morning Live Stream - Sean Finnegan and Susanne Lakin
youtube.com/live/tR50KhfVTYQ…
Anthony Burgoyne retweeted
"You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:13 (REV)
"It's just weird to see reformed Christians tap out so quickly."
Indeed.
when someone's tradition is placed above their bible, they will always have to exit the debate sooner or later.
It's just weird to see reformed Christians tap out so quickly. For a lot of the reformed, Sola Scriptura only works against other groups that have also placed their traditions above the bible, like catholic and orthodox.
When Paul says
"heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ" (Romans 8:17)
all the co-heirs are distinguished from God here. That includes Christ.
About the extent of Trinitarian apologetics nowadays - a far cry from their glory days when it was:
Hi, I'm a unitar
*killed/imprisoned/exiled
Basic Biblical fact: according to Stephen in Acts, God speaks through the angel in the burning bush. The angel is not God.
FYI on 2 Peter 1:1, one of Trinitarians' favourite proof-texts:
Codex Sinaiticus contains a major variant:
'Lord and Saviour'
not
'God and Saviour'
(along with a bunch of other manuscripts that follow this pattern)
which would bring this verse into line with the broad pattern we see in the NT. Jesus is 'Lord' but not 'God'.
It is not wise to base an argument on a major textual variant. Is this favourite proof-text actually another Trinitarian poof-text? 🤔
Trinitarians: "850 verses wasn't enough for the author of the Fourth Gospel to reiterate the key claim of identity between the Word and Jesus from the prologue. Instead, he distinguishes between Jesus and the Word repeatedly just for fun."
YMMV.
Anthony Burgoyne retweeted
“and contradiction along with them”
The kind of intellectual suicide some trinitarian theologians willingly accept, here glorified by Chesterton.
G.K. Chesterton on mysticism
ALT Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic. He has permitted the twilight. He has always had one foot in earth and the other in fairyland. He has always left himself free to doubt his gods; but (unlike the agnostic of to-day) free also to believe in them. He has always cared more for truth than for consistency. If he saw two truths that seemed to contradict each other, he would take the two truths and contradiction along with them. His spiritual sight is stereoscopic, like his physical sight: he sees two different pictures at once and yet sees all the better for that. Thus, he has always believed that there was such a thing as fate, but such a thing as free will also.
Anthony Burgoyne retweeted
I've got a whole chapter in my book about this. The book of Acts is so revealing when it comes to what the New Testament gospel is and is not.
Anthony Burgoyne retweeted
In 529 AD the Justinian Code codified Nicene Orthodoxy into imperial law, making explicit belief in the Trinity the mandatory religious standard of the Roman Empire.
The opening book of the Code, titled On the Supreme Trinity and the Catholic Faith, explicitly declared that 👇