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Originally Posted by kerry
It has to do with the fact that you hold that since their positions aren't orthodox, then they can't really be Christian because as you wrote earlier, the fact that a person considers him or herself a Christian is never grounds for them actually being a Christian. The only Christians are those who fit your definition of orthodoxy.
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Your argument rests on your ignorance (not a jab) of the term heretic.
A heretic is someone who not only believes in heresy but continues to teach and identify themselves with such belief
after being corrected.
Someone who grows up as a gnostic is not a heretic until they persist in such belief after being corrected. And in similar fashion a convert to a heretical system is not a heretic until one is corrected and persists.
Heretics are not Christians.