Mere Christianity Christian Heresy Doesnt Necessarily Matter So Long As The Heretics Are Real Christians

*To be a Mere Christian is to believe that heresy is "not of fundamental importance" - so long as someone is a real Christian. This is just as well, because - if we are brutally honest - each of us regards "almost" everybody else, "even in our own denominations", as a significant heretic.Therefore, in order to do anything; "we need to work with heretics". All we need to do as a Mere Christian is extend the charity we accord to the heretics within our own denomination to embrace heretics more widely. *What is the worst you can say of a Christian heretic?... Can you be a Christian heretic and yet saved? Yes.Can you be a Christian heretic and yet spiritually advanced. Yes. Heresy is therefore, at most, a matter of mere matter of "pros and cons", of "statistical probability," of "potential" implications or consequences...Therefore not fundamental. *We can ask - are Christian heretics fundamentally wrong, or fundamentally right? As Christians we should say that any other real Christian is "fundamentally right" - that is they are right about the mst fundamental things - "whatever" their heresy. That 'fundamentally right' may be very "minimal" - may be just enough for salvation - but "that" is precisely what is meant by fundamentally right. *So, every real Christian is almost certainly surrounded by Christian heretics (from his perspective, that is) - and this situation is not going to change.Christianity requires strong, exclusive denominations and not a mush of compromise, yet there is no realistic chance of all Christians converging into a single denomination... so what is to be done?It is a question of "attitudes -" Negative? Or Positive?In a world of mutual-heretics among real Christians, should we regard each other with suspicion and mistrust, or with whatever love and brotherliness we can muster? Surely the latter - "certainly" the latter. *

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