brother1,
Thanks for your contribution. The questions were aimed to discover how many of traditional Christians (ie non-LDS mainstream Christians, everything in my book from Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, nondenom, SDA) were socail trinitarians. They might seem trivial to you but I had just asked who is a socail trinitarians I think few would have known what I meant.
The question came from another thread were one of the more learned LDS poster's suggested that socail trinitarians were fairly close to the LDS concept of the Godhead but that social trinitarians are a small minority in the Christian population. I disagreed since although I had not until recently heard of the term, the concept would fit closely with how I think the vast majority of Christians (including myself) think.
I notice form your profile your LDS, your views however appear somewhat different from most other LDS posters here. You statements sound almost trinitarian. Would you agree with One God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit are God, they are one but but each also God? Many LDS seem IMHO to want to use logic to trump scripture (and even the BoM) and declare there must 3 Gods since all three of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are given distinct personal attributes in scripture.
As for the Church of Christ, I could ask which Church of Christ, there are several very diverse groups which lay claim to that name. However I will presume that you meant the church of Christ, that came out of the Restoration Movement. I know little about the US church, I'm from Australia but depite our common anti-creedal heritage and wish to avoid non-biblical terms, certainly in Australia we are by and large nearly univerally trinitarian in expression. The bible says one God, and that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are God, I'm happy to leave it at that but if I wish to talk to others I have got to IMHO try to understand what they mean and use phrases that make sure were really communicating about the same concepts.
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