Quote (MaliceMizer @ Feb 14 2019 03:36pm)
It's not a bizarre sect of Christianity and there are non-believers of Jesus among mainstream Christians. The most widely known non-believer Christians are the Quakers, who was enemy #1 of the neoplatonic churchs of Harvard and the other pre-American New World protestants. Quakers essentially believe that anyone can become Jesus Christ by acting out their "inner light" with an infallible "enthusiasm."
Modern accusations against freemasonry are identical to those made by puritans against the Quakers. Those accusations are similar of those made by irenaeus against the gnostics of early Palestinian Christianity.
The trinity conception has won out in the narrative of history, but it's less biblical than the modern west's conception of Lucifer.
http://i.imgur.com/KGwUR4V.jpgArian and National Socinianist denominations dont use triad cosmogony and believe Jesus to be the son of God.
The trinity was hypothesized by (supposedly) pythagoras, and a true logos that approaches the christos mythos was devolved by Plato, who used a concept of pyth's theorem to arrive at a trinitarian esoteric. This is why Voltaire said Plato deserved to be canonized in Christianity.
Being Christ biblically referred to himself in a manner which denoted a unique set of qualities, and furthermore a divinity, as the sole mediator between "the Father" (God) and mankind (no one comes to the father except through me), how then could a Quaker claim that Christ-hood was not unique to Christ? If no one comes to the father except through him, then certainly there can only be one with that capacity.
He states quite clearly that "I bear witness of myself," and he also states "Before Abraham was, I am" which denotes an eternality to his existence predating the creation of man, and furthermore, is a reference to the name of God "I am" given to Moses at the burning bush. This is why the Pharisees declared Christ blasphemous because he indeed gave for himself one of the names of God.
Thus, Quakerism, as defined, is hardly Christianity, in that it rejects the bible, which is the principal source of Christian theology, and therefore, does not serve as a refutation against the idea that Christians can be disbelievers in the divinity of Christ.
Complimentary verses:
John 1:4 "In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind." (ESV)
John 8:12 “'I am the light of the world.'" - Christ (ESV)
Jon 8:14 "I bear witness of myself"
John 8:56-58 "Before Abraham was, I am"
John 14:16 "Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'" (NIV)
This post was edited by FGdumpster on Feb 14 2019 07:43pm