Anonymous #1 3d

Also you guys do know Protestants includes like… Quakers, Methodists, Lutherans, and anglicans right? Protestant doesn’t equal evangelical.

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Anonymous #1 3d

I’m not a Christian btw I just think the “no you don’t count” back and forth is ridiculous

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Anonymous xi.jinping 3d

Fair take

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Anonymous OP 3d

There’s a few other groups I wouldn’t include but there smaller and nowhere near as prevalent as the two you mentioned

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Anonymous OP 3d

Also Black Hebrew Israelites

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Anonymous xi.jinping 3d

Do they even claim to be Christian though?

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Anonymous xi.jinping 3d

My favorite Protestants. This is what Martin Luther meant when he wrote the 95.

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Anonymous #1 3d

(The Hebrew Israelites, I know the Mormons and JWs self-identify as Christian)

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Anonymous #1 3d

I think they do actually

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Anonymous xi.jinping 3d

I know why you separate off the Mormons, but why the JWs? Is it because they’re non-trinitarian?

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Anonymous #1 3d

Yes. In my opinion, any actual Christian is trinitarian. From my experience when I used to be a Christian, that was possibly the central belief tying the entire system together

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Anonymous xi.jinping 3d

I suppose that would mean, by proxy, I consider all of these groups to be fake Christians too

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Anonymous xi.jinping 3d

I view the dominance of trinitarianism as more being about which doctrines won out in early Christianity, rather than a fundamental aspect of the entire overarching faith movement itself. Like there used to be some pretty prominent non-trinitarian sects like Arianism. IG because I’m not Christian I’m not particularly invested in categorizing “true Christianity” and I more have the attitude of “Christians are the sects that self identify as such”

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Anonymous xi.jinping 3d

I think a lot of those beliefs for me are holdovers from when I was a Christian growing up. In my day to day life, my interactions with Christians and opinions of them are mostly determined by the individuals themselves rather than if their denomination upholds the Nicene Creed or not

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