A Pondering Thought

@hippyjoe1955 sigh ... interesting. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Then it's a shame we argue over God and beliefs....thoughts.

@ShadowWorker The fact is we have rejected Yahweh and focused on creature comforts. Thus we get focused on jobs and toys and relationships and..... forgetting that we should be emulating the One in whose image we are created.

@hippyjoe1955
No he isn't. To be comprised of means to be made of. He wasn't made nor does he consist of three parts. You refer to the pagan trinitarian doctrine.

@AkioTsukino Yawn. Move on son. You are too boring and incoherent to even have a clue.

@hippyjoe1955 Yeah, that's only your lame response when someone points out how wrong you are. Nice defense mechanism.

@AkioTsukino Do we Christians worship one God or Three Gods?

@hippyjoe1955 When you say Christians, if you mean Christ and his early followers, the answer is one God. After the apostate church adopted the much earlier pagan trinity from the Greek philosopher Plato then they worshipped three gods.

@AkioTsukino The Trinitarian God concept was present in Jesus teaching. Plato had nothing to do with it.

@hippyjoe1955 Really? So when Jesus said not my will but God's, or no one is good except God he was talking about himself. And Plato had nothing to do with the Platonic trinity. Interesting. Almost. Well, no.

@AkioTsukino Jesus said "l come to do the will of the Father.". Jesus said "I will send the Spirit"

@hippyjoe1955
Correct. He is the son, not the father. The spirit isn't the father or the son.

@AkioTsukino which believe it or not said exactly what I said. Your textual purity make you very impure.

@hippyjoe1955 You refer to the Platonic trinitarian doctrine which is Babylonian in origin, expounded upon by Plato and Greek philosophy. You think Yahweh is Jesus. First of all, no he isn't. He isn't the God with whom he was as the mistranslations of John 1:1 suggests. Jehovah (Yahweh) is the father. He is the creator. Yeshua (Jesus) is the son. He was created. Holy means sacred, belonging to and spirit means invisible active force. It is not a he or a part of he. It isn't a person.

@AkioTsukino Yawn. Please move on. Your pharaseeisms are so wearisome. Straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel......

@hippyjoe1955 My pharaseeisms? [Laughs] Maybe you wouldn't yawn so much if you actually had something to say.

@AkioTsukino You are the one expounding your ignorance and opining that things began with ancient Greece and not Christianity. Move on son. Your brand of Christianity is not very Christian. It is much more pharasic

@hippyjoe1955
The New Encyclopædia Britannica “Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord’ (Deut. 6:4). ... The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies. ... By the end of the 4th century ... the doctrine of the Trinity took substantially the form it has maintained ever since.” - (1976), Micropædia, Vol. X, p. 126.

The New Catholic Encyclopedia “The formulation ‘one God in three Persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century. But it is precisely this formulation that has first claim to the title the Trinitarian dogma. Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotely approaching such a mentality or perspective.”- (1967), Vol. XIV, p. 299.

The Encyclopedia Americana “Christianity derived from Judaism and Judaism was strictly Unitarian. The road which led from Jerusalem to Nicea was scarcely a straight one. Fourth century Trinitarianism did not reflect accurately early Christian teaching regarding the nature of God; it was, onthe contrary, a deviation from this teaching.” - (1956), Vol.XXVII, p. 294L.

Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel, “The Platonic trinity, itself merely a rearrangement of older trinities dating back to earlier peoples, appears to be the rational philosophic trinity of attributes that gave birth to the three hypostases or divine persons taught by the Christian churches. ... This Greek philosopher’s conception of the divine trinity ... can befoundin all the ancient religions.” - (Paris, 1865-1870), edited by M. Lachâtre, Vol. 2, p. 1467.

Dictionary of the Bible “The trinity of persons within the unity of nature is defined in terms of ‘person’ and ‘nature’ which are G[ree]k philosophical terms; actually the terms do not appear in the Bible. The trinitarian definitions arose as the result of long controversies in which these terms and others such as ‘essence’ and ‘substance’ were erroneously applied to God by some theologians.” - (New York, 1965), p. 899.

The New Catholic Encyclopedia “The majority of NT texts reveal God’s spirit as something, not someone; this is especially seen in the parallelism between the spirit and the power of God.” - 1967, Vol. XIII, p.575.

@AkioTsukino If you think anyone is impressed with encyclopedias.... NOW THAT IS FUNNY!!!!!

@AkioTsukino Go look up Matthew 28:18-20. Notice how Jesus names all three in the rite of baptism? Some people go 10th grade 'research' and use encyclopedias. Too Funny!