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   From: bredband.net@ojevind.lang   
      
    skrev i meddelandet   
   news:1177837640.333220.294910@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...   
      
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   > I would use both and would even lean toward adding the Athanasian   
   > Creed, given a broad meaning to references to the Church.  Whether   
   > they are "Western" or not notwithstanding, you then know you are at   
   > least sharing something of a common concept when you speak of God.   
   > Despite the protestations and assertions it seems no one is willing to   
   > address the question of how much those concepts can vary and still be   
   > about the same God. I don't really care who has been considered   
   > Christians and who claims to worship the same God, if their natures   
   > are different, if their actions and directives are inconsistent, if   
   > their basic relationship with us is grossly at odds, it astounds me   
   > that anyone would claim they are identical.   
      
   No one claims that they are identical. However, even those western   
   Christians who regard Monophysites, Nestorians and so on as heretical don't   
   deny that they are Christians.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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