SteveII Wrote:Mister Agenda Wrote: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.
I didn't say the view couldn't be supported. I said it's not spelled out. What you're describing is piecing scriptural clues together to reach a theological conclusion.
Oneness Pentecostals have concluded that, since believers are advised to be baptized in the name of Jesus in Acts; and advised to baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost elsewhere; that the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost is 'Jesus'. They don't believe God is a Trinity, they believe that God is singular divine being that can manifest in any way he chooses. After all, God is not considered four beings in one because he showed up as a burning bush that one time.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.