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Originally Posted by naturalist.atheist
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Originally Posted by Iacchus
Because it is a requirement, at least according to "dogma," that a Christian be a free thinker?
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Maybe, but I was specifically discussing the historical freethinker movement. The naive concept of free thinker as well as free will are oxymorons because how can one be free of one's own will or thinking. At best you can try to be free of the thinking and will of others. But that is not exactly what Christians actually try to accomplish. |
One cannot be a "true" Christian, unless one has the capacity to make up one's own mind about it, irrespective of what anyone else tells you. So no, if it is contingent upon the pastor or, any other member of "the Church" to tell you this is so, you are not a "true" Christian.