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   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   Öjevind Lång wrote:   
   > "Odysseus"  skrev i meddelandet   
   > news:odysseus1479-at-AA6BF4.12405922042007@news.telus.net...   
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   >> That strikes me as a rather parochial view. Various sects identifying   
   >> themselves as Christian deny the trinitarian view (the Unitarians being   
   >> the most obvious example); I imagine one could find several points from   
   >> the creed that are contested by one group or another. Are they all lying   
   >> when they claim to be Christians?   
   >   
   > I wouldn't say so. The Monophysite Christians of Egypt and Ethiopia deny the   
   > human side of Jesus and only accept his divine side.   
      
   No they don't: they regard him as having only one -- I will use your   
   word -- side, but they maintain that His human side was swallowed up by   
   the divine, not that He had none -- that would be the Apolliniarian   
   heresy, which is long extinct.   
      
      
      
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