• @[email protected]
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      139 months ago

      No, the Holy Trinity is necessarily part of all forms of Christianity. But Jesus never explicitly spelled it out. It was decided long after he died.

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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        79 months ago

        Not all forms, just all nicean forms, which comprises all the denominations most people care about, but what some folks consider offshoot christian religions like Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons don’t ascribe to it for various reasons.

        • @[email protected]
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          09 months ago

          My understanding is that it isn’t considered Christian if it doesn’t accept the Trinity. JW and LDS are considered Abrahamic but not Christian per se.

          • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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            89 months ago

            That’s a definition understood by nicean christians as the nicean creed was basically developed in a trial to say who is and isn’t christian and exile the not christians who wouldn’t cooperate

            Academically I don’t think there is universal agreement on if that standard should be taken at face value.

          • @[email protected]
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            29 months ago

            Considered…by whom? Not by them, I bet. I’ll bet JW and LDS do consider themselves Christian.

          • ObjectivityIncarnate
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            The only ‘prerequisites’ for being considered Christian is that you believe in Jesus’s existence, and his divinity. Hence the “Christ” in “Christian”.

    • @njm1314
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      9 months ago

      No, the Trinity is a part of a large number of Christian denominations.