What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?

Re:What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by kodah on Thursday June 01, 2023 @03:53PM (#36156480)

Sure, I agree that it's dogma within the church, that's why I mentioned the Holy Trinity.

The holy trinity wasn't known to Jesus at the time of his life or death. It became apparent that he, the holy spirit, and god were the same post resurrection. That's what separates Jesus from other canonical characters like saints and disciples - he was destined to become one because it was God's manifestation of himself. The others are just humans with extraordinary presence whom God chooses to act on the world through. It was pretty clear Jesus perceived himself as the latter.

Anyway, I could be wrong. I learned all this nearly 20 years ago and only remember it because it was beat into me.

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Re:What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by aeneasmackenzie on Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:33PM (#36160147)

> The holy trinity wasn't known to Jesus at the time of his life or death. …

If this was beaten into you the school you went to was not Catholic or even Chalcedonian, which is a low, low bar. This appears to be some form of the heresy of kenoticism and your parents deserve a refund.

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Re:What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by kodah on Friday June 02, 2023 @06:08PM (#36171445)

A monseigneur was in charge of the school and it was registered with the diocese as a parochial school with a church attached. I assure you that it was Roman Catholic. You can stop questioning that now.

Catholic history, canon, etc were all part of our education. Beatings (corporal punishment) were part of Catholic education going back decades in the states. If you don't recognize this as part of Catholic history you're fooling yourself. What we had was less than corporal punishment, but having erasers tossed at you and being hit with rulers were expectations year over year.

As I said, I may have some details wrong but I'm 90% positive this is what we were taught.

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Re:What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? by aeneasmackenzie on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:34AM (#36185476)

I’m sorry, it never occurred to me that you’d think I was questioning the beating part. I was entirely addressing the teaching. If they were teaching you heresy, they were outside the Catholic Church by definition.

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