I’m not convinced that your interpretation of what he is saying is correct. It may mean something closer to the idea that he doesn’t currently understand the creed in detail but hopes to at one point. In that interpretation he would still believe that the creed reflects truth about reality in some form involving a deity and the deity giving forth some entity which it sacrificed somehow, etc.
That would still represent a significant deviation from what most people have historically thought they were professing, though I suppose less of a “nice-sounding re-write”.
Really? It seems pretty close. Look at how many sources talk about things like the sublime mystery of the Trinity. The only major difference might be that this writer hopes that one day they will understand it.
I’m not convinced that your interpretation of what he is saying is correct. It may mean something closer to the idea that he doesn’t currently understand the creed in detail but hopes to at one point. In that interpretation he would still believe that the creed reflects truth about reality in some form involving a deity and the deity giving forth some entity which it sacrificed somehow, etc.
That would still represent a significant deviation from what most people have historically thought they were professing, though I suppose less of a “nice-sounding re-write”.
Really? It seems pretty close. Look at how many sources talk about things like the sublime mystery of the Trinity. The only major difference might be that this writer hopes that one day they will understand it.