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Old 12-16-2008, 08:46 AM
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Originally Posted by chriscb View Post
The word "doctrine" means teaching not theory. The tri-unity of God aka the Trinity is a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox as well as Protestant churches. Nowhere have I ever seen them call it a "theory". Your use of the word (theory) comes across to me as a pejorative. If you don't mean it that way, then please explain why you call it a "theory".
If critical is the term, then yes. It was never considered a doctrine from the original church before it apostated into many fragments but a theory drawn up of men who had no witnessed of the divinity of the Godhead.
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