(December 29, 2014 at 9:36 pm)ronedee Wrote:(December 29, 2014 at 9:19 pm)dyresand Wrote: The idea of god being 3 beings and yet one being at the same time is really stupid....
Why? You just have no understanding:
The Father = God
The Son = God's Word
The Holy Spirit = God's Love, Teacher, Advocate & Consoler
Look at it this way: God the Father cannot manifest Himself to us in His natural form...Enter Jesus!
Jesus brought us the Word of God! God's REAL mouthpiece!
The Holy Spirit is the Love sent from God, through Jesus to help us!
Simple!
That strikes me as an incredibly inefficient mechanism, certainly not one befitting a perfect (or merely advanced) being. It also begs the question as to why the father cannot manifest himself in his natural form, or why he couldn't simply shape shift into a lesser form rather than create an entirely new entity to do the job. Zeus did it all the time. Are you telling me your god is less capable than Zeus?
But, no, it's not simple. Simple would be god, plain and simple, with no surrogates or weird monotheistic-but-polytheistic-when-it's-necessary things.
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