What Christians Must Show About Logic, Why the World Sees the Church as a Threat, and a Question About the Importance of the Trinity
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AN IDEA FROM ME
If we believe that it's important not to hold any contradictory beliefs which we do as Christians. We believe that only Christianity is true. Then we're going to have to show why contradictions matter, why contradictions actually are a problem. Contradictions violate the laws of logic. And we're going to have to show why only the Christian worldview actually makes sense of the laws of logic.
—Why the Trinity is ASOLUTELY Necessary for Logic,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDPOl7TFrJc
A QUOTE FROM SOMEBODY ELSE
It’s easy to see why such overburdened men [as pastors are] might not see the church “terrible as an army with banners” that Christ’s enemies see quite clearly: an enormous number of people who:
Hold a moral code that is immutable and demanding of loyalty and even sacrifice in the face of any contrary social convention or law;
Voluntarily gather every week, in hundreds of thousands of auditoria, to hear lectures on that code and its application;
Reach into all professions and every area of human endeavor, transforming them according to standards beyond any human opinion or control.
Caesar saw this quite clearly. He saw it as a political threat, and no quantity of reassurance that “My kingdom is not of this world” would placate him. People who refuse to change their beliefs at society’s whim are dangerous: at best they challenge the conscience, at worst they represent an existential threat to a state or a civil order gone bad.
—Rod D. Martin, “Why Does Caesar Hate Us?:
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
Can a person be a Christian without believing in the Trinity? Does it make a difference if he's never been taught the Trinity, vs. having been taught it and rejecting it? What do you think?
Reply in the next seven days, and I will write you back.
In Christ,
Joel Settecase
President, The Think Institute
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