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I have to agree, as the Orthodox Church also traces from the beginning.  =
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the beginning, there was one Christian church, which included all.  Vario=
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schisms and disagreements led to what we have now.  The most "original"=20
churches are the Catholic, the Orthodox and the Coptic, as all can trace=20
their bishopric back to Jesus.  At least this is what I remember from my=20
class in college on the history of the Christianity...

The schism about the Jesus being a man or a god was actually quite funny =
to=20
me.  There were many many camps, from "all god" to "all man" to "60% god,=
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40%man" (oh, yes, there were percentages) to "50/50" to "all god, all man=
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which is generally what you get today.

Diana

On Monday 03 February 2003 05:54 am, Calvin Powers wrote:
> At 2/2/2003 11:44 PM, you wrote:
> >quotation from Chris Hedemark <chris AT yonderway.com> [on 030202 22:49]:
> > > On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 10:35 PM, K. Jo Garner wrote:
> > > > * The Christian Church turned Imbolc into Candlemas, a celebratio=
n
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > One can already call the accuracy into question; there is no Christ=
ian
> > > celebration of Candlemas (though the Catholics may have some ritual
> > > like this)
> >
> >Chris, even though you might not want to believe it, the Catholic
> >Church was the original christian church.  And guess what, although it=
s
> >not celebrated on Feburary 1, but the second, there is a Canldemas
> >(http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03245b.htm).
>
> Ummm. Not quite. Maybe the original Christian Church for Europe. But th=
e
> Coptic Christians trace their roots back to the time just after Jesus'
> Death. Catholicism as we know it, with the Holy trinity and all, wasn't
> formalized until about 400 years A.D.
>
> Interestingly enough, before the Catholic Church formalized it's dogma
> there was a raging theological debate about whether Jesus was "divine" =
or
> was just a man. The the "just a man" camp of Christians still revered h=
im
> anyway, but they believed that Jesus was sent to Earth by God to live a=
s a
> man, not a divine being among men. See http://www.copts.net/index.asp
>
> >Peace.
> >
> >john
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