About Trinity

[lunamoth]

Originally Posted by kvn_m

With all due respect, I know that there's been countless attempts to use an analogy to describe trinity. All of which are flawed because they are, no matter what, simply analogies.

If the three are inseparable, then there's no possibility for Jesus Christ to cry out, "Father, Father, why have thou forsaken me?" when He was crucified. For it is entirely Jesus Christ who was crucified, and that not Father and nor the Holy Spirit, they are indeed separable.

My proposal is that Christianity, by theory alone, to be correct, is not monotheistic because of the existence of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

However, it differs from the polytheistic religions because polytheistic religions have this concept that every single God possesses different powers, different substance, different essence, etc.

But in Christianity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are not like that. They serve different functions, like the Father plans the salvation, the Son fulfills the plan, the Holy Spirit enlightens. In this respect, theoritically, Christianity then is a polytheistic religion, without having any similarities to any other polytheistic religions, and instead, more of a monotheistic religion in terms of practice.

You say tomato, I say tomahto, let's call the whole thing off.

lunamoth

[Quahom1]

Originally Posted by lunamoth

You say tomato, I say tomahto, let's call the whole thing off.

lunamoth

Fair enough. Thread closed.

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