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Subject: Why insist on an incomprehensible doctrine? Author: Liberal [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 17:40:39 07/26/04 Mon In reply to: XOX 's message, "Re: Is Unitarian Universalism a heresy?" on 17:00:59 07/26/04 Mon Agree, we should also protect Unitarians and other alternative thoughts. Reflecting on the charges of heresies on doctrinal grounds, what we want to ask are: (1) Must orthodoxy certainly right and non-orthodoxy (heresy) certainly wrong? (2) Is the essence of faith upholding of several statements (doctrines) or living a proper life itself? The idea of Trinitarianism is a mystery. It is ultimately incomprehensible. Does the upholder of Trinitarianism know what (s)he is saying when (s)he utters the word? No. So why insist on accepting a word which nobody on Earth knows what it actually means as a requirement of correct faith? Why discarding an incomprehensible word is being labelled as heresy? If raising questions about an incomprehesible word is a heretic act, heresy is what every humble and responsible truth-seeker should do! In other words, heresy is sometimes right. In many parts of the Gospel books, Jesus demonstrated examples of loving the oppressed people and taught that the second most important law is loving others as oneself. Jesus was remarkably unconcerning about theories. To follow Jesus' examples and teachings, the essence of being a Christian seems to be living a loving life itself rather than mentally holding a certain theological theory, especially when the theory is incomprehensible. The prime problem of doctrinal insistence is the exclusion of good practitioners of other faiths. The problem is rejection of living innocent and good people by theological theories. Are living human individuals more important than theories? I think so. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Re: Why insist on an incomprehensible doctrine? XOX 17:59:57 07/26/04 Mon