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Yes.
As long as people are respectful and follow the guidelines, sure.
Edit: your other replies are not respectful and seem to violate the guidelines.
Edit 2: Anyone can be respectful to anyone else regardless of beliefs. Choosing not to be respectful doesn't say anything about the beliefs, it speaks as to the person being disrespectful. This will be my last edit/reply.
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Yes.
Since I can't reply to a dead comment: As long as people are respectful and follow the guidelines, sure. Edit: your other replies are not respectful and seem to violate the guidelines. Edit 2: Anyone can be respectful to anyone else regardless of beliefs. Choosing not to be respectful doesn't say anything about the beliefs, it speaks as to the person being disrespectful. This will be my last edit/reply.
The connection between their arguments and the actual resulting Christian practice is tenuous at best or more likely irrelevant.
And all things considered its pretty late in the formation of Christianity of the Church. By 325 the church was pretty unified on the most important things.
Its just more famous because we have slightly better documentation for this history. We have almost nothing for the first century. In the second century our records are incredibly spotty and fragmented. It gets a bit better in the 3rd and 4rd century.
There is so much interesting 'Christian' history of the early 2 centuries that people are totally unaware off. If you want to see into some of that strange history, you might want to read something like: "Found Christianities: Remaking the World of the Second Century CE"
Thought the article says the council 'settled' christology, it still took hundreds of years before it was popularly resolved: for, at least, the first 500 years of christianity jesus was widely regarded as something more like a demigod. This fairly clearly what Paul thought; with Luke likely believing just in a messianic role. Early christianity is perhaps best seen as greeking of judaism: god the father is zeus, the…
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Since I can't reply to a dead comment: As long as people are respectful and follow the guidelines, sure. Edit: your other replies are not respectful and seem to violate the guidelines. Edit 2: Anyone can be respectful to anyone else regardless of beliefs. Choosing not to be respectful doesn't say anything about the beliefs, it speaks as to the person being disrespectful. This will be my last edit/reply.
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Yes.
Since I can't reply to a dead comment: As long as people are respectful and follow the guidelines, sure. Edit: your other replies are not respectful and seem to violate the guidelines. Edit 2: Anyone can be respectful to anyone else regardless of beliefs. Choosing not to be respectful doesn't say anything about the beliefs, it speaks as to the person being disrespectful. This will be my last edit/reply.
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Since I can't reply to a dead comment: As long as people are respectful and follow the guidelines, sure. Edit: your other replies are not respectful and seem to violate the guidelines. Edit 2: Anyone can be respectful to anyone else regardless of beliefs. Choosing not to be respectful doesn't say anything about the beliefs, it speaks as to the person being disrespectful. This will be my last edit/reply.
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