Re: Is the trinity "extra-biblical"
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 7:48 am
I never found the arguments in opposition to the trinity difficult to disarm, nor the ones for it difficult, so I didn’t feel 'I' was ever fighting (as in tooth and nail). Being a rather simple conclusion, it still seems odd to me that so many would fight 'so hard to oppose it'. It is a simple doctrine, just stigmatized by a lot of bad arguments. Both sides are responsible for making this ‘seem’ difficult. In fact the bad arguments themselves, both for and against, are precisely what makes this difficult to comprehend. Gods Word is not necessarily asking us to comprehend everything as much as it is asking us to believe. At the same time Gods Word is expressing most all the things we are asked to believe quite plainly, often repeatedly, and with logical reasoning.
The “All ye are Gods” verse is very simple to discern, if one just looks at the psalm 82 verse 7 ("You are gods… Nevertheless you will die like men…”, if they were real gods, they would not die)
I do not know ‘why’ I would shut off the engineer’s brain. I know you mean that we should be spirit filled and focus on the heart, but for many people the mind is the heart. I came to Christ because He made sense, more sense than anything I had ever come across before. A lot of people like me are tired and saddened by Christians whose knowledge, concern and thoughts of God are an inch deep. Many of us are in need of things that agree, make sense, and have logical conclusions. These logical conclusions say things like; don’t sin because sin ruins everything / Jesus died on a cross, if His death did not symbolically match the record of the sacrifices for sin, I would be lost.
The “All ye are Gods” verse is very simple to discern, if one just looks at the psalm 82 verse 7 ("You are gods… Nevertheless you will die like men…”, if they were real gods, they would not die)
I do not know ‘why’ I would shut off the engineer’s brain. I know you mean that we should be spirit filled and focus on the heart, but for many people the mind is the heart. I came to Christ because He made sense, more sense than anything I had ever come across before. A lot of people like me are tired and saddened by Christians whose knowledge, concern and thoughts of God are an inch deep. Many of us are in need of things that agree, make sense, and have logical conclusions. These logical conclusions say things like; don’t sin because sin ruins everything / Jesus died on a cross, if His death did not symbolically match the record of the sacrifices for sin, I would be lost.