• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    9 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@lemm.ee
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      9 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.

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      9 months ago

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

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      9 months ago

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