Interpretation the Trinity is polytheistic

[JimL]

Yes Jim. They are 3 distinct and separate members. Jesus was on earth praying to his father in heaven for example.

Ah, so are you a polytheistic christian?

[shunyadragon]

How do you say they are separated?
You are finding an unjustified pair of opposites. If by unified you mean the oneness of God ... you just use oneness. I'm not sure where you get the supposed idea of indivisibility. This concept is not what is addressed in the comprehension of God. So maybe you can clarify what you are asking.

Jesus Christ is seated on the right hand of God the Father and distinctly seperate.

[mikewhitney]

Jesus Christ is seated on the right hand of God the Father and distinctly seperate.

Amen!!

What is the metaphysical essence of this situation? I take is that your question bumps up against the edges of your metaphysical imagination of the realm of the Godhead.

[mikewhitney]

So if jesus is the only begotten son of god, what is the 3rd person of the trinity, the only begotten daughter maybe, or what?

You ask such deep and informed questions.

[JimL]

You ask such deep and informed questions.

Bet you can't answer them.

[mikewhitney]

Bet you can't answer them.

There is the great question -- How many angels can dance on the head of a pen?

[JimL]

There is the great question -- How many angels can dance on the head of a pen?

That's not an answer mike, it's a question.

[shunyadragon]

There is the great question -- How many angels can dance on the head of a pen?

Infinite if they stand on each others shoulders and dance.

[siam]

So if jesus is the only begotten son of god, what is the 3rd person of the trinity, the only begotten daughter maybe, or what?

[mikewhitney]

Infinite if they stand on each others shoulders and dance.

No. Not at all. there are not an infinite number of angels. You would have to take a census before you can start to answer this question.

[Tassman]

Yes Jim. They are 3 distinct and separate members. Jesus was on earth praying to his father in heaven for example.

Ah the divine mystery of it all. Given the Christian doctrine of the Trinity holds that God is one God but three co-eternal con-substantial persons, when he was praying to himself.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

Why are these people trying so desperately to smash a polytheistic concept onto a monothesitic framework? What makes it necessary?

Because Christianity has spent the better part of two thousand years trying to reconcile an ineffable and invisible deity, as found in Second Temple and first century Judaism, with the Hellenised concepts of anthropomorphic deities. And it has never adequately resolved that issue.

ChristiantiyYou will believe this...or else

[Christian3]

The dove is a symbol of the Holy Spirit.

[Christian3]

Because Christianity has spent the better part of two thousand years trying to reconcile an ineffable and invisible deity, as found in Second Temple and first century Judaism, with the Hellenised concepts of anthropomorphic deities. And it has never adequately resolved that issue.

ChristiantiyYou will believe this...or else

You don't know what you are talking about. No one should ever listen to you.

[37818]

There is the great question -- How many angels can dance on the head of a pen?

Oh, didn't you know? Two thirds of all the angels. One third are fallen, Revelation 12:4.