(May 25, 2016 at 10:16 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:SteveII Wrote:If you take that path, you would not be able to compare religions against each other and see which one makes more sense. I think it is very important to test for internal consistency and relation to the real world.
BTW, the trinity is not an attempt to reconcile with reality. It is a straight up, spelled out doctrine in the NT.
Which you don't actually bother to do yourself, you just went with the dominant religion of your region and expect atheists to defend Hinduism to you, otherwise you simply dismiss it out of hand 'cause you've already found the one you 'know is right'.
The word 'trinity' appears nowhere in the Bible. It does not say 'God is three persons' or 'God is three anything'. I don't think the term 'spelled-out' means what you think it does. There is a whole branch of Christianity that doesn't believe in the Trinity.
No, the word trinity is not in the Bible. However, all through the NT, we have references to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Not just that, we have references of the Father referring to the Son and the Son referring to both of the other two.
