To say that the Trinity is not accepted by lots of sects isn't an opinion, its literally incorrect. To quote Wikipedia "In terms of number of adherents, nontrinitarian denominations comprise a small minority of modern Christians. The largest nontrinitarian Christian denominations are The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints", and the LDS are like 16 million. Its not common doctrine to be non trinitarian, whether or not you want to argue its correctness or not.
It's also been a heresy for nearly 2,000 years to argue against the Trinity. Nobody can claim Trinitarianism is debatable when the Arian Heresy was beaten (the Orthodox believe literally beaten, like with fists) at Nicaea.
Jolly Ol' St. Nick really showed Arius what was up.
The fact that it's the minority view doesn't mean it's irrelevant. Why would it? 16 million is quite a lot, anyway. I meet Mormons IRL relatively often.
What do you even mean by this? It's settled and the fact that people disagree with it "doesn't count" even in an analytical sense because a vote was held and the Catholic church decided to oppress the followers of Arius? I'm kind of amazed someone (here, of all places) would try to make this argument.
Mormons don't even believe in monotheism. They think that when they die they go to outer space where a planet is created for them to reign as a "lower-case g" god. You have to be severely mentally handicapped to call that Christianity.
Yeah and I'm the one who's being 'euphoric' here.
16 million may be a lot but when compared to the over 2 billion Christians that follow Trinitarian doctrine, it ain't jack. Also, just you yourself meet Mormons often doesn't mean its true for everybody.
Trinitarianism was already well-established by the time of the Council of Nicea. Heck, the Bible makes mentions of the 3 persons of the Trinity many times. See Matthew 3:16 and 28:19, John 14:26, Galatians 4:6, and 2 Cornithians 13:14 for a few examples. Even if it doesn't explicitly state the Trinity, it can be inferred that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are connected.
Here's what I sometimes think of that:
In fairness you have to be pretty retarded to be a Christian so those Mormons fit right in.
It's just veneers for most people. As the joke goes, you need to bring two Baptists with you on your fishing trip 'cause if you bring one he'll just drink all your beer.
I never heard of this. How would a family function if males and females weren't allowed together? Closest thing I know is when parents/grandparents make you sleep in separate beds, both married and unmarried couples. He must have been raised around weirdo fundies.
Again, this sounds like a thing that totally happened. It's a real concern that having two people spend time alone together can lead to naughty things, but most Christians do not order complete segregation of the sexes.
The short answer is to look at a lot of the ultra-patriarchal societies in the developing world, where the young women are often sent to live separate from the men until marriage agreements are made, and then spend most of their time stuck in the house away from the husband and his guests. That is to say, this doesn't work particularly well when the only time men and women really spend time together is during fornication.
From a certain point of view, he saved one of the thieves.
