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RE: Trinity
August 25, 2013 at 2:09 pm
Mainline theology cannot simply and effectively explain the Holy Trinity. When they do, the human mind can only visualize three gods.
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RE: Trinity
August 25, 2013 at 2:20 pm
(August 25, 2013 at 2:09 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Mainline theology cannot simply and effectively explain the Holy Trinity. When they do, the human mind can only visualize three gods.
A convenient circular argument - And it still fails.
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RE: Trinity
August 25, 2013 at 4:33 pm
(August 25, 2013 at 2:09 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Mainline theology cannot simply and effectively explain the Holy Trinity. When they do, the human mind can only visualize three gods.
Not even with god on the prayer phone you can't explain it? When you ask god to explain himself, does he tell you to f*ck off?
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RE: Trinity
August 25, 2013 at 5:14 pm
(August 25, 2013 at 2:09 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Mainline theology cannot simply and effectively explain the Holy Trinity. When they do, the human mind can only visualize three gods.

Ahw camon, can't you come up with some bullshit, like everyone before you did?
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RE: Trinity
August 25, 2013 at 5:36 pm (This post was last modified: August 25, 2013 at 5:37 pm by Faith No More.)
(August 25, 2013 at 2:09 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Mainline theology cannot simply and effectively explain the Holy Trinity. When they do, the human mind can only visualize three gods.

Theology cannot effectively explain the Trinity because the only effective explanation is that it is nonsensical.
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RE: Trinity
August 25, 2013 at 6:38 pm (This post was last modified: August 25, 2013 at 6:38 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
You misunderstand. I agree that mainline, i.e. orthodox, theology is nonsense. As a student of Swedenborg, I have a different take on the Trinity that most Christians consider heretical.

Unfortunately, I'm a bit time challenged. I'm selling my house and moving. All my books are boxed- up. And I never really took the time to summarize the New Church perspective. Nevertheless, the Swedenborgian view recognizes a divine trinity divided not into persons, but rather essential attributes of one God, just as soul, body, and operation make one human.
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RE: Trinity
August 25, 2013 at 7:04 pm
(August 25, 2013 at 6:38 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: You misunderstand. I agree that mainline, i.e. orthodox, theology is nonsense. As a student of Swedenborg, I have a different take on the Trinity that most Christians consider heretical.

Unfortunately, I'm a bit time challenged. I'm selling my house and moving. All my books are boxed- up. And I never really took the time to summarize the New Church perspective. Nevertheless, the Swedenborgian view recognizes a divine trinity divided not into persons, but rather essential attributes of one God, just as soul, body, and operation make one human.

Bolding mine.

Soul has not been demonstrated to exist. Body without operation is still human. A dead human body still belongs to the human species.
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RE: Trinity
August 25, 2013 at 7:36 pm
(August 25, 2013 at 6:38 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: You misunderstand. I agree that mainline, i.e. orthodox, theology is nonsense. As a student of Swedenborg, I have a different take on the Trinity that most Christians consider heretical.

Unfortunately, I'm a bit time challenged. I'm selling my house and moving. All my books are boxed- up. And I never really took the time to summarize the New Church perspective. Nevertheless, the Swedenborgian view recognizes a divine trinity divided not into persons, but rather essential attributes of one God, just as soul, body, and operation make one human.

I'm a bit unable to fully participate as well. However, when you do get the time, I would love to hear more about Swedenborgianism and your take on theology. Perhaps you can start a thread once you get more settled. There's also an Eastern Orthodox Christian who just joined, though I suspect he's just a shit n' runner, but I know very little about that branch of Christianity. It would be nice to learn more about it first-hand.
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August 25, 2013 at 8:11 pm
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August 25, 2013 at 9:07 pm
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