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12-19-2002, 07:23 PM | #1 |
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Fundamentalist doctrine from scratch
A thought experiment:
Civilization is wiped out temporarily by disease, war, you name it. But humanity survives and eventually gets back up though the history prior to the catastrophy is vague at best, among other things christianity and it's offshoots are forgotten. Then, after thousands of years, archeologists unearth the full text of the bible, and infer from other sources that 20th century people used this book as a literal, God-inspired truth. Future versions of fundies decide to emulate this noble principle of their ancestors, and recreate Christianity based on only the Bible (old and new testament, assume that there's no translation problems) and sola scriptura. The question is, how different could this neo-christianity be? Would the NeoXians reinvent the trinity doctrine, for instance? What parts would be likely to remain the same, and what parts most likely to be interpreted differently? |
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