To live a Christian life, it could not matter less what you believe about the Eucharist.
The people in question would have vehemently and in fact violently disagreed. The only way this makes sense is if one adopts a version of Christianity which doesn’t focus on the Eucharist, again disagreeing with a fundamental premise at issue. None of the groups in question consider “live a Christian life” to mean be a nice person and believe that Jesus was a swell dude.
Ask an Orthodox priest about the filioque. Ask a Catholic about the Resurrection. Ask John C. Wright about, well, anything.
Of course, you may not agree with their answers. The point is that their answers will have nothing to do with avoiding hellfire by reciting God’s passwords (a typical misunderstanding by people unfamiliar with Christianity), and everything to do with how a right understanding of God and His relationship to Man leads us to rightly relate to each other in the world.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
But not all Christians believe that, as demonstrated by the Reformation wars among other things. And while were at it, it is worth noting that among some evangelical Christians, especially those who emphasize the “sinners’ prayer” it is very close to saying the right passwords. That people aren’t focusing on the forms of Christianity that you are sympathetic with doesn’t mean they don’t understand Christianity.
Ask an Orthodox priest about the filioque. Ask a Catholic about the Resurrection. Ask John C. Wright about, well, anything.
Of course, you may not agree with their answers. The point is that their answers will have nothing to do with avoiding hellfire by reciting God’s passwords (a typical misunderstanding by people unfamiliar with Christianity), and everything to do with how a right understanding of God and His relationship to Man leads us to rightly relate to each other in the world.
St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:1-2
Aquinas
But not all Christians believe that, as demonstrated by the Reformation wars among other things. And while were at it, it is worth noting that among some evangelical Christians, especially those who emphasize the “sinners’ prayer” it is very close to saying the right passwords. That people aren’t focusing on the forms of Christianity that you are sympathetic with doesn’t mean they don’t understand Christianity.