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Old 04-07-2006, 01:45 PM   #11
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Dang, that sure is mysterious.

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Old 04-07-2006, 06:15 PM   #12
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Which God do you worship? the Son or the Father or the Holy Spirit?
I'm so fed up with this trinity. I try to worship just God. I suppose that's the Father. The Son is a usurper (must be). The Holy Spirit - a sexless component.
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I like "one...God, indivisible...," thanks. Trinitarians can have their nonsensical, homoousian god-blob.
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Of course that has nothing to do with Judaism's polytheistic roots.
Of course it has, but not according to Christians who have a desperate desire to "prove" that Jesus was around at the beginning, and that the Trinity was being accurately described in the OT.

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I only worship four of all the Gods that exist, but I believe in all of them.
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Which God do you worship? the Son or the Father or the Holy Spirit?
Perhaps a result of the imagery I have been immersed in since I came into the world, I tend to think of the Son as the most central of the three. Now that I think of it, more than half of my prayers are addressed directly to the Son. But, I don't believe that one is greater or more important than the other. And, such is their unity in essence despite their distinctness in persons, that it is impossible to honor Christ without honoring the Holy Spirit and God the Father as well.
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Here's my view. Spirit, Father and Son are different aspects of God.

Spirit is the force that can connect and coordinate/harmonize everything in the universe. It can manifest as Jungian synchronicity, intuition and as the nonlocality phenomenon observed in particle physics.

Father is the force that analyzes and creates. Another word for this could be "analytical mind".

Son is one of Father's creations. It is a manifestation of Father and Spirit in a bodily form.

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What do you mean of the same substance? I was birthed by my mother, so I understand what being "of the same substance" would mean in this instance.
String theory (the leading theory in contemporary fundamental physics) says that all elementary particles are strings of one substance, and the way a string vibrates determines physical properties of a particle.

Btw, Eastern religions say that we, God and everything are One
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