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1 year ago  ::  Apr 06, 2012 - 7:24PM #51
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The concept reallyisn't that hard to grasp. Man is physical (part 1) and man has a spirit (part 2)


How might that explain the Trinity?
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1 year ago  ::  Apr 07, 2012 - 2:42AM #52
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Apr 6, 2012 -- 8:25AM, Rgurley4 wrote:

It is a MYSTERY why the same old folks chat endlessly about the TRINITY aka TRI-UNE GOD aka the 3 -spiritual PERSONS in one.


The real mystery is the desperate defense of such bizarre, unscriptural invention by so many old folk ... Cool


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“The everlasting God is a refuge, and underneath you are his eternal arms ...” (Deut 33:27)
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1 year ago  ::  Apr 07, 2012 - 10:55AM #53
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Apr 6, 2012 -- 7:24PM, Blü wrote:

  57


The concept reallyisn't that hard to grasp. Man is physical (part 1) and man has a spirit (part 2)


How might that explain the Trinity? 



Well Blu, it doesn't.  But along the lines of what 57 said ...


Man is physical.  Man has a spirit.  Jesus being a special classifcation of human, along with such equals as Abraham, Moses, Muhammad and Baha'u'llah, has, through the power of the Holy Spirit, a spirit and soul with much greater capacity then the mere human.  While this does not make Him God it does give Him the God given ability to be able to manifest and reflect the attributes of God.  Jesus and those of equal stature are perfect mirrors of the Divine reflecting what God wants humanity to know about Him in the age presented.  That's the simply truth much of Christianity is unable or unwilling to grasp so they rely upon the concept of the Trinity ...



 

The sciences of this world are droplets of reality; if then they lead not to reality, what fruit can come of illusion? By the one true God! If learning be not a means of access to Him, the Most Manifest, it is nothing but evident loss. (Baha'i Faith) As to life's problems Einstein said it well - we can't solve a problem using the same consciousness that created it ...
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1 year ago  ::  Apr 07, 2012 - 6:01PM #54
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Apr 7, 2012 -- 2:42AM, Miguel_de_servet wrote:


Apr 6, 2012 -- 8:25AM, Rgurley4 wrote:

It is a MYSTERY why the same old folks chat endlessly about the TRINITY aka TRI-UNE GOD aka the 3 -spiritual PERSONS in one.


The real mystery is the desperate defense of such bizarre, unscriptural invention by so many old folk ... Cool


MdS




I just posted this on The Needs of the Many thread, so I'll be brief. The penalty for sin is death. Jesus died as a substitute for us, playing by the rules, somebody has to die for sin. Jesus has to be God so as to be of such value as to cover the sins of everyone. Jesus has to be a man, because God cannot die. And for this to work, God has to come in separable parts. Why? Because if Jesus had sinned, while being man and God simultaneously, and died, he being tied to God (inseparable) because God is One, All of God would have died.


So the Trinity is a safely valve. If Jesus had sinned, only the Second Person of the Trinity would have died, Father and Son would have remained safe. The separation occurred on the cross when Jesus cried My God, why have you forsaken me? The resurrection showed that Jesus had not sinned, so he himself was not (eternally) subject to death.

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When supposedly skeptical atheists and scientists pick on monotheistic religion in books, speeches and debates, they are simply beating up a court jester in a clown crown. They think that by clobbering the clown of religion, they have overthrown the kingdom of transphysical reality, but such arguments cannot sway anyone established in the integrated, co-creative state, which is the serious reality underlying the circus of religion.           
                                            Jed McKenna's Theory of Everything: The Enlightened Perspective, 57%
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1 year ago  ::  Apr 07, 2012 - 8:37PM #55
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Seefan


While this does not make Him God it does give Him the God given ability to be able to manifest and reflect the attributes of God.  Jesus and those of equal stature are perfect mirrors of the Divine reflecting what God wants humanity to know about Him in the age presented.


A mirror, whether a 'perfect mirror' or not, does nothing by itself, has no light or image or power of its own.  Jesus in the gospels on several occasions attributes all his authorities and powers to Yahweh, saying none of them comes from himself.  So there's something to what you say.


(Jesus denies he's perfect - 'Why do you call me good?  No one is good but God alone.')
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1 year ago  ::  Apr 07, 2012 - 8:43PM #56
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The penalty for sin is death.


All creatures above a certain level of complexity die.  It's not, of itself, a penalty.  It antecedes any concept of sin by billions of years.
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1 year ago  ::  Apr 07, 2012 - 8:58PM #57
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stardustpilgrim:  Jesus died as a substitute for us, playing by the rules, somebody has to die for sin.


Die in what sense, 'cause we all do, regardless of our saved nature?


Because if Jesus had sinned


I realize what Christianity says about Jesus being sinless, but unfortunately I have a high resistance to BS.  Jesus sins throughout the entire story, from minor griping to ego-stroking to vandalism to bigotry.  The only way to say the text shows how Jesus was sinless is to close the text and never read it.

Knock and the door shall open.  It's not my fault if you don't like the decor.
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1 year ago  ::  Apr 07, 2012 - 9:00PM #58
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Apr 7, 2012 -- 8:43PM, Blü wrote:


stardust


The penalty for sin is death.


All creatures above a certain level of complexity die.  It's not, of itself, a penalty.  It antecedes any concept of sin by billions of years.




I think I specified on the other thread, the death I'm talking about is separation from God, IOW, spiritual death.

The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten.
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.
The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton

A map is not the territory.                                                                 Alfred Korzybski

When supposedly skeptical atheists and scientists pick on monotheistic religion in books, speeches and debates, they are simply beating up a court jester in a clown crown. They think that by clobbering the clown of religion, they have overthrown the kingdom of transphysical reality, but such arguments cannot sway anyone established in the integrated, co-creative state, which is the serious reality underlying the circus of religion.           
                                            Jed McKenna's Theory of Everything: The Enlightened Perspective, 57%
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1 year ago  ::  Apr 07, 2012 - 9:06PM #59
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Apr 7, 2012 -- 8:58PM, Iwantamotto wrote:


stardustpilgrim:  Jesus died as a substitute for us, playing by the rules, somebody has to die for sin.


Die in what sense, 'cause we all do, regardless of our saved nature?


Because if Jesus had sinned


I realize what Christianity says about Jesus being sinless, but unfortunately I have a high resistance to BS.  Jesus sins throughout the entire story, from minor griping to ego-stroking to vandalism to bigotry.  The only way to say the text shows how Jesus was sinless is to close the text and never read it.




See recent post #60.


I respect and rather enjoy your creative theology. To sin means to transgress God's Law. Show me in scripture where Jesus transgressed God's law. He disobeyed the traditions of the Pharisees, but he didn't transgress the Law, not once.

The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten.
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.
The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton

A map is not the territory.                                                                 Alfred Korzybski

When supposedly skeptical atheists and scientists pick on monotheistic religion in books, speeches and debates, they are simply beating up a court jester in a clown crown. They think that by clobbering the clown of religion, they have overthrown the kingdom of transphysical reality, but such arguments cannot sway anyone established in the integrated, co-creative state, which is the serious reality underlying the circus of religion.           
                                            Jed McKenna's Theory of Everything: The Enlightened Perspective, 57%
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1 year ago  ::  Apr 07, 2012 - 10:39PM #60
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As I just remarked to 57, Jesus expressly denies that he's sinless -


Luke 18:
19 And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.[”]
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