The real problem for all Christianities is the whole eternal damnation business -- "If you don't get it right this time around and don't pick the right Christian denomination, you'll burn forever."Vicarious atonment is an immoral doctrine and is central to Christianity. No one can do your repentence for you. — Gregory
Craig agrees that omnipotence entails the ability to do anything that is logically possible. It is not a limitation to be unable to do the logically impossible.Can an all-powerful God make a rock that he can't lift? No, he can't do that. The question implies that though he can do anything, there's something he. can't do.. It implies a self-contradiction. But that's alright because classical theists believe that God can do any logically possible thing that his nature allows. — BillMcEnaney
Which implies that some people in the early 2nd century believed in transubstantiation.if you read St. Ignatius of Antioch's 2nd-century letter to the Smyrnaeans where he warned them to avoid anyone who denied that bread changed into Christ's body and blood. — BillMcEnaney
They believe scripture is the inspired word of God. The writing of the Apostolic fathers is not scripture.Catholics pay attention to what the Early Church believed. But many Protestants ignore it because they believe sola scriptura. — BillMcEnaney
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