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Why has Christianity historically placed so much emphasis on belief as opposed to ethics and law.
Judaism, obviously, is a system of laws that relegates belief to a few critical precepts and leaves the continuum of elaborated belief to the subject of opinion or personal insight.
Islam, the same, while placing some emphasis on belief in Muhammad as a prophet, the prophets being divinely inspired and perfect in their teachings, and in accordance to some of the narrative concerning the establishment of the faith, still places the majority of its focus on law and ethics.
Christianity, in its development, rushed to form councils to pass creeds of faith and then elaborated those creeds to incorporate saints (in the case of Catholic Church) and seems to drone on and on about believing the metaphysical claims of the respective Churches.
Why?
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>>2646020
they had to incorporate pagan religions all over Europe into Christianity and they got into fights every step of the way , such as the holy trinity
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>>2646056
You don't understand Christian theology. The trinity is a core part of Christian doctrine. They could have gone Arianism root but chose not to do to conviction. It has nothing to do with pleasing pagans who in most cases were so primitive they didn't even concept of god beyond a physical tree.
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Christian ethics are about becoming God, so the doctrine of Christ as God and man, since he is the medium of our transformation, was always vital.
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christianity is about selling you an afterlife, so you have to believe your investment is going to pay off in the future.
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>>2646020
>Why has Christianity historically placed so much emphasis on belief
This is actually a very modernish phenomenon. For much of the ancient and early modern world, the existence of Christ wasn't really a matter of question or ontological belief; he existed whether or not someone chose to cultivate a relationship therewith. You can see echoes of a New Law in Paul and developing with successive church councils.
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So it can spread easily.
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>>2646080
orthodox pls
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>>2646020
Because you don't have to prove anything or provide anything of value to shill blind faith.
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looks like someone DIDNT read Paul, Gospels and the Church Fathers
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