‘These ideas go back to the teaching of Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109), which
spread in the West but was refused by the Eastern Church.
However, after the fall of Constantinople (1453), Anselm’s teaching crept back into the Eastern Church.
Anselm’s hypothesis says that the “Original” sin (from Adam and Eve) insulted God a great deal and brought His anger against mankind. Therefore, there was a need to compensate and to offer a suitable “ransom” that bears people’s sins, pleases God the Almighty, releases us from God’s anger, and satisfies divine justice.
All of that, according to Anselm, made God offer His Son (Christ) to be the victim. This hypothesis reflects the legal understanding of the Western mind, which was prominent in Roman culture. In addition, this hypothesis reflects the Medieval understanding of the issues of honor and compensation.
After the Great Schism between the two churches, theology in the West separated from the Divine Theoria and replaced it with philosophical thinking in an attempt to explain the divinity.
This, in turn, caused many aberrations, of which this hypothesis was considered the
most dangerous’
- Metropolitan Saba of New York and All North America
@KimballCall This is a complete lie. There are many things that mormons are told in the mormon endowment "are not to be revealed" outside of the temple, for example the new name, oaths, keywords, signs, tokens, true order of prayer.
MASSIE: “The Israelis napalmed the deck of the USS Liberty and then machine-gunned the lifeboats. They were intent on leaving no survivors.”
It took 59 years for the USS Liberty survivors to even be recognized by our occupied government. God bless Thomas Massie.
The shoe is on the other foot isn't it? Mormons believe that there were very sincere Christians who were tutored by the apostles and willing to die for their faith and yet somehow this was INSUFFICIENT and God removed all salvific authority from them.
It's funny.
My fellow Christians (who deny me that same title) love to cite the thief on the cross whom Christ seems to forgive at that fateful moment. I wonder if that man secretly whispered his position on homoousios and the Son being consubstantial with the Father before he got the nod into Paradise?
But somehow my simple declaration that Christ is my Savior is insufficient to acknowledge that I am a Christian.
go figure.