Was Nestorianism the truest form of Christianity? Why was it lost to time?
Was Nestorianism the truest form of Christianity? Why was it lost to time?
Aaron Campbell
Connor Gonzalez
>Why was it lost to time?
Don't know about truest, but I will say that it is certainly not lost to time. Google the Assyrian Church of the East.
Liam Harris
>Why was it lost to time?
Mongols.
>Mongol Empire led to the rise of Islamic or Buddhist conversion of Central Asia.
>Mongol barbarism and the fact that Nestorian Turks were part of it turned Chinese Nestorians- one of the largest Nestorian groups ever- back to Folk Chinese religion.
Ian Williams
Rome eventually crushes everyone.
Jose Gray
They aren't nestorian anymore.
Justin Wood
Samuel Hugh Moffett's series is probably the best on the Church of the East.
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I think the Orthodox Church and Church of the East both preserve the original ambience of a divine mystery the best. Orthodox churches have gone on to become more extravagant in their practices. The Church of the East doesn't feature icons or statues in their churches today but this was not necessarily always the case.
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They probably did that under pressure from Zoroastrians or Islam.
In the absence of excessive artwork which can be distracting it's probably easier to focus on the main point of the faith. They may have also had an opportunity to develop in a way which was more consistent with the humility of the earliest Christian teachings as opposed to other churches which may have gone on to become governing institutions and at times lost track of their original morals.
Camden Gonzalez
>dude Jesus was a schizo lmao
>the truest form of Christianity
David Hughes
That literally describes trinitarians in their effort to stamp out their doctrine and somehow make it appear distinct from all the others.
>He's the spirit but he's also God but he's also human but his human nature is not God but it's still divine.
Jeremiah Baker
>That literally describes trinitarians
Nestorianism is Trinitarian
>>He's the spirit
No He isn't
>but he's also God
Yes He is
>but he's also human
Yes He is
>but his human nature is not God
Correct
>but it's still divine
No it's not
Mason Garcia
How can he be God but not be divine, are you taking the piss?
Luis Martinez
The christological struggles were pretty much one side trying to make the other look bad while winning the favor of the emperor. Much more divergent beliefs have developed since then and the intricacies of it don't really affect the main points of practice or belief for the average layman.
Josiah Phillips
His humanity is not divine, He is
Camden Taylor
>implying humans don't' have a divine component
Wew
Ian Walker
There is probably a closer lingual connection with the language of Yeshua which could help bring the understanding of his words closer to their original meanings as opposed to in other languages where the sense of the words may have diverged over time in the course of translations even with the Greek.
There's probably a limit to this though since most scholars agree that the official bible of Syriac Christians was probably translated from a Greek source but there are earlier versions like the Old Syriac Evangelion Da-Mepharreshe ("Separated Gospels")/ Curetonian Gospels and the Diatessaron, though also seemingly translated from Greek, may also reflect in some parts an earlier oral tradition transmitted amongst Aramaic speakers and these texts often have the same wording used in the Peshitta.
Juan Allen
Pantheism is heresy
Jackson Stewart
So is Æutism
Matthew Jackson
>Æutism
Is this how you signal you have down syndrome or something?
Lucas Gomez
No, it's to signal that you're an autistic faggot
Dylan Brooks
>thinks Christianity doesn't teach we are sons of the most high, therefore divine
Learn your own religion, son.
Colton Peterson
No, it doesn't. We are sons by adoption, not by nature.
Hunter Rodriguez
If anything we are prodigal sons. They called God "Father" before Christ was in the flesh.