RE: Why does God hate babies who have not sinned?
October 14, 2012 at 6:15 pm
(This post was last modified: October 14, 2012 at 6:24 pm by Reasonable_Jeff.)
(October 14, 2012 at 6:07 pm)Darkstar Wrote: Yeah, but it said they saw "the God of Isreal", not Jesus. This was part of the OT, so Jesus hadn't come to earth yet. It did not say 'the holy spirit', so it could only have been the father.
Christians believe in the Trinity as one God having three separate points of consciousness. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Divinity is an attribute possessed by each person.
Any one of the members of the Trinity can be referred to as the God of Israel....because there is only one God.
I don't think your argument against this Christophany is sound based on your misunderstanding of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity.
(October 14, 2012 at 5:55 pm)Darkstar Wrote: What part of "There were myths about George Washington even before he died, and he never claimed to be divine" did you not understand? A lot of people today still think the story about the cherry tree is a true one.I gave you professional historian of times prior to and contemporaneous with Jesus, A. N. Sherwin-White. I'm not saying that because a scholar believes it, it's true. However, I think his opinions (since he is well researched/studied in his arena) have more weight than your story of George Washington.
Do you have scholarly work to back up your statement? Even if you did, it is also a different time in history and a different culture. It seems to me that you would need to provide a similar story to George Washington in the Roman/Greek historical context near the time of Jesus for that argument to hold water.
