RE: The Trinity
January 22, 2021 at 3:03 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2021 at 3:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
OFC there's always that, for anything - but with respect to religion and the things we deem religious beliefs...by their nature, nothing can do anything but confirm them or be resolved (to whatever level of competence) into those types of hypothesis to prevent rejection.
If anything did anything else, they would no longer be our religious beliefs by definition. A religious belief is an unviolable truth - a statement not even remotely truth evaluable in the manner of any other common truth assertion.
This, to me, seems to be what happened with trinitarian belief, and, ironically.... the same with anti-trinitarian belief. Each is a consequence of other things asserted to be true as an article of faith. Do you think that the past or current state of christian belief might be a consequence of something you describe above. Of things changing on the basis of opposition viewpoints simply dying off? Trinitarianism was true because the anti-trinitarians died off and now non-trinitarianism is true because the trinitarians are dying off?
If anything did anything else, they would no longer be our religious beliefs by definition. A religious belief is an unviolable truth - a statement not even remotely truth evaluable in the manner of any other common truth assertion.
This, to me, seems to be what happened with trinitarian belief, and, ironically.... the same with anti-trinitarian belief. Each is a consequence of other things asserted to be true as an article of faith. Do you think that the past or current state of christian belief might be a consequence of something you describe above. Of things changing on the basis of opposition viewpoints simply dying off? Trinitarianism was true because the anti-trinitarians died off and now non-trinitarianism is true because the trinitarians are dying off?
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