What if, with a PoD before the First Council of Nicaea, Christianity developes into a non-Exclusivist religion that allows the people to continue worshipping their own native dieties?
What if, with a PoD before the First Council of Nicaea, Christianity developes into a non-Exclusivist religion that allows the people to continue worshipping their own native dieties?
Do you mean a situation where Christianity is officially tolerant of non-Christian religions and allows them to exist in parallel, or one where Christians are allowed to continue worshipping traditional gods whilst still calling themselves Christians? Because the former may just be possible, but the latter really isn't - as has been mentioned, it wouldn't be Christianty anymore.
Christianity doesn't have to change is core doctrines, just to allow its worshippers to simultaneously be a part of another belief system.
Fine, only the exclusivism core belief, with as little changes beyond that as possible. Any thoughts on what sort of world a Christianity allowed to run paralell with Paganism would breed?That would be changing its core doctrines.
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." --Matthew 7 : 13-14
"Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” --John 14 : 5-7
"How long will you people turn my glory into shame? How long will you love delusions and seek false gods?" --Psalm 4 : 1-3
“You shall have no other gods before* me." --Exodus 20 : 3
*Sometimes "besides"
Aside from Brigid, who do you have in mind? It's certainly true that Christianity took pagan popular forms and made them Christian (Christmas trees, Yule celebrations, Easter bunnies, summer solstice->St.John the Baptist, etc.), but the point is they took them over and made them Christian. They didn't leave them as any remnant of pagan practice, explicitly. Counting Zeus or more likely Apollo and Athena as 'pagan prophets' might have been possible, but keeping them as any sort of god, no way.In OTL, you had cases of Pagan gods being incorporated as Christian saints, you might be able to do something like that. But it would take major alterations to keep the worship of true gods up.
ExactlyI don't think it could be done. If Christianity is changed in order to accomodate them it will be changed to the point it's not Christianity anymore.
But Buddhism isn't ABOUT gods, at all. So you can have many or none, and still be a Buddhist. Not true with Christianity, or any Abrahamic faith.More towards the former. Think of how someone can be Buddhist and other religions at the seme time as an example.