bacht

I like the partnership of God and the feminine Wisdom in the Old Testament, but it's probably more likely that Asherah or some other goddess was God's consort before the monotheists took over.

I can accept the Trinity idea as an expression that God has many faces, or is revealed in different ways (sort of like the old story about the blind men and the elephant). Anthropomorphism is only a convenience, a way to make divinity understandable to human minds. The strictest parts of the Bible say that God can't be seen or known anyway.

Holly3278

Here is the basic gist of how the Trinity works. The Father's love causes the Son and the Father and Son's love causes the Holy Spirit (Ghost). If you want to learn more about the Trinity, I'd recommend the following resources:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15047a.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02033b.htm

http://www.catholic.com/library/Trinity.asp

http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?ti...Trinity%2C_The

http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?ti...hanasian_Creed

http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2006/...ndex-page.html

I hope I have provided enough links for you all to do some good research on the topic of the Most Blessed Trinity.

Deus Ex

Christ, according to the faith, is the second person in the Trinity, the Father being the first and the Holy Ghost third.
Each of these persons is God. Christ is his own father and his own son. The Holy Ghost is neither father nor son, but both.

The son was begotten by the father, but existed before he was begotten--just the same before as after. Christ is just as old as his father, and the father is just as young as his son.
The Holy Ghost proceeded from the Father and Son, but was equal to the Father and Son before he proceeded, that is to say, before he existed, but he is of the same age as the other two.

So it is declared that the Father is God, and the Son and the Holy Ghost God, and these three Gods make one God. According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three time one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar: if we add two to one we have but one. Each one equal to himself and to the other two. Nothing ever was, nothing ever can be more perfectly idiotic and absurd than the dogma of the Trinity.

-Robert G. Ingersoll

Kosh

I think This Video should clear up the trinity questions about as much as possible....:Cheeky: