Is it a concept so hard to understand? What didn't you get, anon?
>>15628587Polytheism
They get it, they're just concern trolling
>>15628592Read the Nicene and the Athanasian Creeds and you'll see that we Christians worship one God only
>>15628605they actually don't get it
>>15628656It is usually just a pretense on this board>>15606439
>>15628587Basic maths: 3 isn't 1.
>>15628592In one respect yesin another respect no
>>15628640No that's just something they say while it's obviously polytheism. Like if I said the olympic gods share an essence and thus declare it monotheism.
>>15628856Cool. So I'm basically you because we're both humans.
>>15628876yes
Lack of abstract thinking ability. Just take this guy for example:>>15628798He's presented with a conception of god that entails the transcendence of the laws of number criticizes it for not being reducible to the laws of number. This is. a lack of abstract of thinking that shows he is as capable of participating in theological and philosophical conversations as a dog or a pig and should be treated as such.
>>15628587Virgins cant get pregnant.
>>15628886Are you able to tell us how we should think about it?
>>15628907No, but I can explain why I won't waste such. time with such a think in terms you'll understand.Bark Bark. Bark bark, bark bark, bark bark, bark bark bark. Bark. But in all seriousness. I do sincerely believe that you are part of a lower caste of humanity, and that any attempt to engage with you a is a waste.
>>15628925Please, just explain it to us I don't wanna go to hell oh god I'm so scared of going to hell, what if i sinened i don't wanna i don't wanna go to hell o hg ophgod god god oh god i'm so scared
>>15628856Pretty sure 1 is a number, not number
>>15628971Jesus is God. No "a God"
>>15628977Exactly
>>15628960I'm not Christian, and I don't believe in the actual existence of such a god, so don't worry about it at at all. I think that the concept itself separates man into those who are capable of a abstract thinking and those who aren't. I don't think there are any real consequences to being incapable of getting it, so don't worry about that.
>>15628971But the point of the analogy is that 1 is number
>>15628994If 1 is number then what is 2?
>>156290102 is number too
>>15628886>Lack of abstract thinking abilityI like the Germans a lot, but their general failure to understand the trinity does worry me about their IQ related to Religion
>>15629027If 1 and 2 are number then 1 = 2, which is fortunate for God but not for counting
>>15629038No, it's likeYou are humanI am humanHe is human
>>15629039I'm not sure God is a species or category
>>15629052God is a species
>>15629052But in "is God", God means a category
>>15629061Sounds kinda heterodox to be quite honest with you
>>15629072St. Gregory of Nyssa defines God as beholder, for example
>>15629091I think we can conclude from this that basically Rome ruined theology in the middle ages
I think it being unintelligible nonsense is a really really good explanation, for why you can't just explain it to other people
>>15628587It goes against common intuition
>>15629144>>15629186But it's not that hard to understand>>15628856
>>15628856heresy of modalism. completely irrational and incorrect and has been considered so since the nicenes.
>>15629267Why is it Modalism?
>>15629254The ability to comprehend a subject has no bearing upon its validity. The statements:>A=B>C=B>A/=Cis easily comprehended but is still contradictory
>>15628587God is one person but he comes to earth under three different forms depending on the era>from the start of the world to year 0 as the Father>from 0 to 33 as the Son >from 33 to the end as the Holy SpiritOne God, three forms
>>15629314gay retard theology.can you just drop the act; eat, drink and be merry?you don't believe a lick of the Bible
>>15629292It's not "equals":>>15629039
>>15629327Why are there necessarily three God? Why not 4 or 5 or 6?
>>15629331Because they're God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit
>>15629335How do you know? It's not in the Bible
The way that the word “spirit” is used in the New Testament doesn’t really lend itself to trinitarianism. Spirit is the way we understand God truly; spirit is the right understanding and emotions and frame of mind. The spirit is all of the importance of religion, and is contrasted to both the “flesh” AND the “letter”. Importantly, in this period they didn’t say “I have a good mood” or “i’m sad”, they would say “good spirit” or “lowly spirit”. Spirit entailed emotion. “Discerning the spirits” meant discerning emotion and mindset. The holy spirit is simply that mindset of pure holiness, aka sacredness, importance, awe.John 4 is crucial for understanding the early Christian usage of the word “spirit”. Christ says that he is an eternal Living Water, from which anyone can take his cup and be satisfied. “Living water” means the water that flows down consistently from (say) a high mountain. Unlike still water which would make you sick. After saying that he is the living water, Jesus says that one day we won’t worship God on a mountain (Samaritan place of worship) or Jerusalem (Jewish place of worship) but SPIRIT and TRUTH. In other words, we worship God from the direct source of importance, the spirit, which is understanding/truth/significance. After all, who benefits more? The person who worships God in Jerusalem, or the person who worships God from within his own understanding and heart and being (spirit). The spirit is all the importance. And then, in case we understand, he says >God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truthJesus essentially says that the Father, who is God, is spirit and is worshipped in spirit. This means that God exists as an emotional and inner “mindset” or orientation.In John 5:>You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life
>>15630307Christianity is all about taking the focus of religion from scripture (a Pharisee’s practice) to Christ, which means toward a personal-social-fellowship understanding of God. God is *not* understood through scripture. The early Christians did not worship God by analyzing scripture but by speaking to God socially (prayer), singing to him, contemplating him, and imagining the events in the Gospel.Now when we read after the resurrection that Jesus will give us his spirit, the “advocate”, this means that while we cannot see Jesus right now (obviously) we can “see” him in the mind’s eye by say of “spirit”. This spirit is the (social) understanding of God through the lifeness of Jesus. The spirit covers us when we come together as Christians to pray, prophecy, hymn, etc.
