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shadow.hedgie.social • 2 days ago

And good luck defining an essence of Christianity that includes every Christian while excluding everyone who is uncontroversially non-Christian

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isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social•2 days ago

how about “believes that Jesus of Nazareth was God incarnate”

sure, it includes people like Mormons or Jehovah’s Witnesses who some Christians might consider not really Christians, but it doesn’t include anybody who is definitely not a Christian that I can think of

isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social•2 days ago

okay it might include the Druze which is a problem for my definition I guess

shadow.hedgie.social•2 days ago

also includes a decent number of Hindus, I believe

isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social•2 days ago

OK, how about “believe that Jesus of Nazareth was incarnate of the one God” which would exclude hindus who believe him to be an avatar of Vishnu

shadow.hedgie.social•2 days ago

I barely know anything about Hindu theology but... it's complicated.