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How Conciliar are you?

Discussion in '2003 Archive' started by Matt Black, Sep 12, 2003.

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How Conciliar are you?

  1. Doctrinally correct decisions made by the true church(es)

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    61.1%

  2. Doctrinally correct decisions made by an heretical/ apostate church - true NT churches outside of th

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  3. Heretical decisions made by an heretical/ apostate church

    3 vote(s)
    16.7%

  4. Irrelevant decisions - true NT churches knew the truth already and didn't need the Councils

    4 vote(s)
    22.2%

  5. Don't care

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    0.0%
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  1. Matt Black

    Matt Black Well-Known Member
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    The first 4 great Ecumenical Church Councils of the 4th and 5th centuries - Nicaea I (325), Contantinople I (381), Ephesus (432) and Chalcedon (451)made important doctrinal pronouncements concerning the nature of the Trinity, the nature of the Incarnation and millenialism. What, as good Baptists, do we think of them?
     
    #1 Matt Black, Sep 12, 2003
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    So far (early days) we seem to have 100% uptake on Option #1. I take it from this that we are agreed that the church(es) were sound until the mid-5th century at least, so the question flowing from that is at what point and why and how did they deviate from sound doctrine?

    Yours in Christ

    Matt
     
    #2 Matt Black, Sep 12, 2003
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    If only Darby or Scofield had been around back then they might have gotten their millenialism right!
     
    #3 Tim, Sep 13, 2003
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    Nicene? Isn't that a vitamin?

    I prefer to think of it as the Athanasian Formulation for describing the trinity; I thinks it's about as close as humans can come to explaining it, but I do not believe that one is lost without agreeing with every word.

    After all, the Latins and the Greeks still disagree over one word, yet they both consider each other orthodox.
     
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    I think you'll find that's niacin, mate :D

    Interestingly, I've read one of Darby's anti-Catholic polemics wherein he quotes with approval from the Councils against the RCs; obviously he was conveniently forgetting that Constantinople I condemnde his chiliaism/ millenialism [​IMG] .

    Yours in Christ

    Matt
     
    #5 Matt Black, Sep 15, 2003
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    The Councils of - Nicaea I (325), Contantinople I (381), Ephesus (432) and Chalcedon (451) are extremely significant and sadly are rarely taught about in Baptist Sunday school material.
     
    #6 Kiffin, Sep 15, 2003
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