Comments on: Christianity Without Christ? Another Response. http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/06/16/christianity-without-christ-another-response/ Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:25:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: kim http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/06/16/christianity-without-christ-another-response/#comment-322 kim Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:14:40 +0000 http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/06/16/christianity-without-christ-another-response/#comment-322 You might want to read this sermon by Fausto at The Socinian. It seems to me to be relevant here. It's called The Way, the Truth, and the Life. http://socinian.blogspot.com/2006/06/way-truth-and-life.html You might want to read this sermon by Fausto at The Socinian. It seems to me to be relevant here.
It’s called The Way, the Truth, and the Life.
http://socinian.blogspot.com/2006/06/way-truth-and-life.html

]]> By: Response to Elizabeth’s Little Blog at Making Chutney http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/06/16/christianity-without-christ-another-response/#comment-271 Response to Elizabeth’s Little Blog at Making Chutney Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:51:00 +0000 http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/06/16/christianity-without-christ-another-response/#comment-271 [...] saw in my comments section yesterday that Elizabeth’s Little Blog has posted a response to a post I made, “Christianity without Christ,” about a year and [...] [...] saw in my comments section yesterday that Elizabeth’s Little Blog has posted a response to a post I made, “Christianity without Christ,” about a year and [...]

]]> By: fausto http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/06/16/christianity-without-christ-another-response/#comment-77 fausto Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:29:22 +0000 http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/06/16/christianity-without-christ-another-response/#comment-77 I'm not so sure that the Gnostics were Christians. Most of the other "heretics" disagreed with the orthodox position on Christology, but they shared the same essentially Abrahamic apprehension of God that Jesus held and taught. The Gnostics had a significantly different theology and cosmology - different in kind and not just degree.<br/><br/>I waould agree with the general point, though, and say that Spong and the nineteenth-century Free Religion movement (for example) fall within the Christian umbrella rather than outside it. I’m not so sure that the Gnostics were Christians. Most of the other “heretics” disagreed with the orthodox position on Christology, but they shared the same essentially Abrahamic apprehension of God that Jesus held and taught. The Gnostics had a significantly different theology and cosmology - different in kind and not just degree.

I waould agree with the general point, though, and say that Spong and the nineteenth-century Free Religion movement (for example) fall within the Christian umbrella rather than outside it.

]]> By: Mystical Seeker http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/06/16/christianity-without-christ-another-response/#comment-71 Mystical Seeker Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:08:50 +0000 http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/06/16/christianity-without-christ-another-response/#comment-71 You pretty much hit the nail on the head. Christianity was a diverse religion at the beginning, and only after one theology won out over the others did it get to make the rules and decide what "Christian" means. Were the Ebionites, Marcionites, and Gnostics Christians? Of course they were. They only ceased to be Christians after the side that won out decide what was "orthodox" and what wasn't. This attempt at deciding what is and isn't Christian is offensive, and I understand why you ranted. I am a big fan of Spong's "12 theses" and I posted them on my blog, so I am of course in total disagreement with this idea of refuting Spong based on orthdox interpretations of Christianity. You pretty much hit the nail on the head. Christianity was a diverse religion at the beginning, and only after one theology won out over the others did it get to make the rules and decide what “Christian” means. Were the Ebionites, Marcionites, and Gnostics Christians? Of course they were. They only ceased to be Christians after the side that won out decide what was “orthodox” and what wasn’t. This attempt at deciding what is and isn’t Christian is offensive, and I understand why you ranted. I am a big fan of Spong’s “12 theses” and I posted them on my blog, so I am of course in total disagreement with this idea of refuting Spong based on orthdox interpretations of Christianity.

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