wala

Is God three persons?

God the Father/God the Son/God the Spirit

Tell us why would an omnipotent God need to express himself as 3 different people?

Why would God even need three persons in order to express himself? Multiple personality disorder? It just doesn't make any sense that a supposed omnipotent being feels the need to play such games.

And if three persons does not equal multiple divinities, then I suppose Hinduism is a monotheistic religion as well.

When you refer to the trinity as 'three distinct individuals', it does sound like polytheism.there were lots of ancient mythologies which included trinities of gods/divinities. Most of these were female trinities, though.

"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one" Does this sound God is three persons in one?

Anyway, Heinlein said it best:

"Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything."




DIVINE INSANITY
God killed himself on the cross to save his own creation from his own
wrath !

Xulfer Cirtsag

I think they should add in a 4th or 5th even. That would be even more mysterious, and awesome! You gotta love those awesome gods. :thumbs: :devil1:

lenrek

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Rational BAC

I think that the idea of a trinity is a bit of a stretch as far as Christianity is concerned. Ain't really there in the Bible you know. Just a made up thing after the fact.

And besides, nobody really gives a shit whether God is one entity or three entities. Or 5 entities or 10 entities-----------Most Christians pay little or no attention to this very favorite subject of atheists.

Certainly I don't-------And I am a most excellent Christian.

The only requisite for being a Christian is a belief in Jesus---no matter how many parts or how few parts He was divided into.

So, besides the fact that atheists like to get their balls in an uproar about the trinity and its illogic--------I admit freely----------It is illogical--

--it is also moot----nobody really cares about the subject at all-- (except for atheists).

WCH

Then is Jesus distinct from God the Father? If he is distinct, then is he fully God? Who is "the one who is coming" Jesus refers to, classically interpreted as the Holy Spirit? A seperate entity from God? If seperate, fully God or not?

The Bible isn't conclusive one way or the other, but you can see how someone asking these questions could arrive at the concept of a trinity.

Rational BAC

Or maybe a duo.----

We have gotten so used to the idea of a trinity, due to the canons of the 4th century, that other conceptions are not considered.

What is the Holy Spirit anyway? ----------- Lord knows.

Could be a separate entity. Could be really Jesus. Could be really God the father. Could be something inside each of us. Could be any damned thing.

I don't think any of this has anything at all to do with Christianity. Not really.

WCH

God the Father, perhaps, but not Jesus -- Jesus refers to God the Father seperately from himself, and the Holy Spirit seperate from himself, but I suppose it would work for them to be different names for the same thing.

wala

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If the Trinity is a legitimate doctrine, then explain how something that is one can have more than one identity?

Consider John 1:1-2

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.

How can someone who is God be with God?

Consider also John 14

11Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. 12I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

If He is already in the Father, how can he be going to Him?

Killer Mike

The Trinity is an oxymoron that had its origins in ancient religions. Horus for example was known as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost 5000 years before Jesus. But any 5th Grader knows that 1 cannot equal 3 or 3 equal 1. :Cheeky:

ayman

In Islam, we believe in one and unique mighty God, we believe in Jesus and we respect him very much but as a God' prophet not as a God or son of God.