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Voltaire2

(15,090 posts)
8. It's obvious nonsense.
Wed Jan 10, 2024, 10:03 AM
Jan 2024

And has been nonsense for 1800 years or so since it was more or less invented. The christians of the 200s-400s spent a lot of time arguing about and frequently killing each other over ‘the true nature of christ’. The intervention of the Roman State, starting with Constantine, resolved the dispute (with state violence of course) in favor of the absurd trinitarian ideology.

The christian god is three divine entities all of which are eternal and all of which are basically aspects of the one god. There are no logical rational answers to your questions as the belief system is irrational at its core.

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The Trinity is a confusing and very vague concept. Ocelot II Jan 2024 #1
Not sure where you got those verses from, but at best it's highly edited Major Nikon Jan 2024 #9
The quote is from (I think) the New International version; I didn't make it up. Ocelot II Jan 2024 #10
The NIV is the work of evangelicals Major Nikon Jan 2024 #12
Yes. It was the first version that came up on Google; I wasn't looking for Ocelot II Jan 2024 #13
Whatever else he was, Jesus was a Jewish Rabbi Major Nikon Jan 2024 #15
Probably not. He was kind of an anti-establishment guy, Ocelot II Jan 2024 #16
Almost certainly not in the way he was described Major Nikon Jan 2024 #17
There's a lot of influence of Platonism, both in John 1, and the development of the "Trinity" by Tertullian muriel_volestrangler Feb 2024 #18
Interesting. I suppose it makes as much sense as anything else. Ocelot II Feb 2024 #19
Promises. czarjak Jan 2024 #2
Scripture does not show that jesus considered himself a god any more than Karadeniz Jan 2024 #3
seriously? NoRethugFriends Jan 2024 #4
Very serious. keithbvadu2 Jan 2024 #5
Wow. Just wow. Willing suspension of disbelief NoRethugFriends Jan 2024 #6
If the creation does not exist, does the creator exist? sanatanadharma Jan 2024 #7
It's obvious nonsense. Voltaire2 Jan 2024 #8
Of course it's irrational, but this is the Religion forum, Ocelot II Jan 2024 #11
It is the religion forum, but unlike most of the other religion forums Voltaire2 Jan 2024 #14
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