My wife, a discouraged Christian, has recently been attracted to Mormonism. The sisters who've visited our area have impressed her with their organization and seeming concern for her and other residents of our apartment complex.
This has me somewhat concerned, so I want to explore more unorthodox views of Christianity deeper and see if maybe I can convert and help steer her away from being sucked into conversion to a religion I don't like. I'm intrigued by some of the more sophisticated Christian perspectives of medieval philosopher John Duns Scotus that directly addresses a popular traditional view of Christ. Scotus articulated a doctrine called The Absolute Primacy of Christ, which refutes the idea that Christ mainly had the identity of a cosmic responder. One of the main obstacles to my belief in Christianity is Christ primarily being viewed as volunteer hero.
Scotus believed that God knew that humans never had the capacity to be perfect and so God was never particularly disappointed when "sin" was actualized. People being so ingrained with wild apparatus (being the descendants of primates), their moral imperfection was guaranteed to be expressed at some time and in some form no matter what. God, therefore, always intended to enflesh himself independent of any anthropological malfeasance occurring. This does away with a lot of the tropes that hinder many people's acceptance of classical Christianity.
To me, that's a starting point that might possibly pave the way to belief for me. And I'm encouraged that Christianity at least has enough flexibility to allow for a more intriguing view. Or does it?
I only know of one Christian here who holds to the view of the primacy of the incarnation (robrecht). Are there any others here who believe this, and can you explain how you arrived at it? To me, it puts a different spin on the problem of natural evil, making it slightly less problematic to me. I can delve further into this, but for the sake of brevity, let this kick-start the conversation.
I respectfully request that seer, shunyadragon, and Adrift not participate here. Thank you.
This has me somewhat concerned, so I want to explore more unorthodox views of Christianity deeper and see if maybe I can convert and help steer her away from being sucked into conversion to a religion I don't like. I'm intrigued by some of the more sophisticated Christian perspectives of medieval philosopher John Duns Scotus that directly addresses a popular traditional view of Christ. Scotus articulated a doctrine called The Absolute Primacy of Christ, which refutes the idea that Christ mainly had the identity of a cosmic responder. One of the main obstacles to my belief in Christianity is Christ primarily being viewed as volunteer hero.
Scotus believed that God knew that humans never had the capacity to be perfect and so God was never particularly disappointed when "sin" was actualized. People being so ingrained with wild apparatus (being the descendants of primates), their moral imperfection was guaranteed to be expressed at some time and in some form no matter what. God, therefore, always intended to enflesh himself independent of any anthropological malfeasance occurring. This does away with a lot of the tropes that hinder many people's acceptance of classical Christianity.
To me, that's a starting point that might possibly pave the way to belief for me. And I'm encouraged that Christianity at least has enough flexibility to allow for a more intriguing view. Or does it?
I only know of one Christian here who holds to the view of the primacy of the incarnation (robrecht). Are there any others here who believe this, and can you explain how you arrived at it? To me, it puts a different spin on the problem of natural evil, making it slightly less problematic to me. I can delve further into this, but for the sake of brevity, let this kick-start the conversation.
I respectfully request that seer, shunyadragon, and Adrift not participate here. Thank you.
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