RE: Christian Polytheism
November 13, 2014 at 3:59 pm
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2014 at 4:04 pm by Brian37.)
(November 13, 2014 at 3:36 pm)Godschild Wrote:(November 13, 2014 at 11:57 am)strawdawg Wrote: Up until the time of Isiah the Jewish religion was a purely polythetic religion. There were many gods one of whom was Yahweh and he had a wife named Asherah. For what ever reason the scribes edited out all the polytheism and adopted a monothetic view.
Now that Christianity has come along It's one God but actually 3 people (polytheism). In Catholic school we were told, you don't have to understand it just believe it by faith.
It amazes me how little people know about the scriptures yet believe they are experts on the scriptures. How is it someone can be so blind to what scripture actually says, oh I forgot you all believe what your told by others who know no more about the scriptures than you do. The Jewish scribes are historically known for their accurate copying of the scriptures, making sure nothing ever got changed, they would destroy any scroll that had an error copied into it.
Why do you think God told the Israelites to destroy everything when they went into Canaan, so they wouldn't adopt the gods of wood and stone into their lives. If you would have payed attention to the prophecy while they were wondering in the desert, God said He would punish them for their disobedience for turning away from Him after they came into the Promise Land.
For those who think that Jesus was a separate deity from the Father, He repeatedly stated He and the Father are one. Jesus told his disciples that because you have seen me you have seen the Father.
God reveals himself in the three persons of the trinity, He is one God revealed in three persons.
Also denying the historically accurate scriptures is an act of foolishness and a denial of any intelligence you have. Did you know the scriptures have named one of the Pharaohs of Egypt's 25th dynasty. Even the museums in Egypt do not name any of them. Do you know why, because they were black, a black races south of Egypt concurred them and sat on the throne around 100 years.
GC
No, you are looking at your own point of view. You are not looking outside your own point of view. Of course how you view the scriptures is going to set you up to being right. All religious people of all religions do this with their own books and traditions.
You need to take yourself out of your own desires and look at the bigger world in the entirety of our species. You know rightfully that others simply chose their religion and that their religion is not true. You can accept that Scientology was started by a Si Fi writer. You can accept that Mormonism was started by a mere man and not a prophet.
You simply refuse to accept the fact that your religion is merely a product of prior religions. Humans make up religions. That is all there is to it and you are not different.
"He is one god in three persons" sounds like "Ra, Osirus, Horus". You are stuck on details when we are pointing out MOTIF in the idea of a trinity. Christianity was not the first to come up with a "three pronged power". Instead of one god the Egyptians had 3 gods in their trinity.
Still not original. Horus was a savior god. Horus sat at the right hand of Osirus under Ra in judgment of the dead. Thot spit in his eye to cure his blindness. The first "Madonna and Child" was Isis holding the savior god Horus, is depicted on the Temple of Luxor.
