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	2:36 Matt Baker who created the UsefulCharts YouTube channel has a series connecting diverse Christian denominations and sects into historical groupings After the mostly extinct PreNicene groups (Gnostics, etc.), he lists the Roman Catholic, Eastern, Oriental Orthodox, and Churches of the East, and from the Catholic branch: Protestantism
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	6:41 The Enforced Nicene Consensus When Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire and later Medieval successor states, theologians settled on a formula Once the Protestant Reformation ceased to be about working within the Western church to “reform” and Instead led to the establishment of denominations and sects outside, all settled Question were re-opened The Chriîtofogkol mn froversies
	10:09 Nob-Nicene / Antitrintarians Many groups that emerged out of Protestantism have rejected the Trinitarian formula Oneness Pentecostals see God as a singular divine spirit without "distinct persons"(a form of Modalistic Monarchism) Jehovah's Witnesses teach that God the Father is God, and that Jesus is the first/only direct creation of God (Arianism)
	11:54 Mormon Rejection of Monotheism By the end of his career, Joseph Smith Jr (founder of the Latter Day Saint movement) taught that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, are not One God, and that the Father was once a finite mortal human who is progressing Not merely a rejection of Trinity, this rejects Monotheism itself, since God in this conception is neither infinite nor the One Source but is finite/progressing
	13:38 The Worldwide Church of God The church Matt Baker grew up in was founded by in 1936 by Herbert W. Armstrong who grew up In a Quaker family but was influenced by the Adventis “Church of God (Seventh Day)" Retaining Sabbatarianism, Armstrong developed other ideas of his own, including “Binitarianism” (rejecting the Holy Spirit as a person of God) and British sraelism
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	33:05 Paradigm of Western History The "Re-Birth" of Ancient Roman Civilization: Picking up where we left off before the fall of Rome as direct heirs of ancient civilization re-born
	34:12 Paradigm of Western History The left-over part of the timeline is conceptually the era the came in the "middle" between the fall and the re-birth of Roman Civilization. Medium Aevum (Medieval) is Latin for Middle Ages
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	35:22 Paradigm of the Restoration
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	36:33 book of Acts letters of Paul historicirt
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	37:42 The firt proponent» of Atheism In the Early Modem West lived in this same paradigm, and as a result tended to see themselves in various philosophers from Antiquity—especially those thinkers who were skeptical of the traditional understanding of the gods in ancient Greece along with natural philosophers who were Interested in materialism (natural causation)
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	47:11 Atheism VS. Religious Reform
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	50:13 Rejecting a Particular Conception
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