(June 17, 2011 at 9:54 am)Epimethean Wrote: Which is simply sidestepping the issue semantically. Will you be the child's grandfather, father and the child of those two, all at once? Hardly.
I would be one person who is a grandfather, father, and son at the same time, but not in the same respect. Correct. But this is not side-stepping because the same applies to God, who is Father, Son, and Spirit at the same time but not in the same respect.
(June 17, 2011 at 9:59 am)Epimethean Wrote: By the way, using Christian doctrine and scripture to assess whether Christianity is monotheistic is pretty closed reasoning.
Actually no, it is pretty good reasoning. If I want to know whether a belief system is monotheistic or not, I look at what that belief system teaches and what monotheism means.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
