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Title: Trinity Explained
Post by: mrclose on January 13, 2024, 01:30:58 am
Not to be taken as anything else  other than the way a lot of "Christians" have asked us to believe over the years!

(Put into words for a better understanding!)



(https://i.postimg.cc/zXDdNtBM/TRINITY-EXPLAINED.jpg)

How much clearer can it be? :-)
Title: Re: Trinity Explained
Post by: scottfreitas on February 27, 2024, 09:59:38 pm
You've provided a simplistic, snarky (perhaps Jewish) "explanation" for what has always been referred to by Christendom as "the mystery of the Trinity".

It misrepresents the entirety of the teachings of the New Testament regarding the nature and status of God.

So... was there a point to it? Or did you just want to remind us why listening to non-Christians trying to explain how Christianity works is always an eye-rolling waste of time?
Title: Re: Trinity Explained
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 27, 2024, 11:08:59 pm
Trinity, .016 seconds in...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Trinity_Test_Fireball_16ms.jpg/800px-Trinity_Test_Fireball_16ms.jpg)

Some things you just don't mess with. :shrug:
Title: Re: Trinity Explained
Post by: libertybele on February 27, 2024, 11:39:47 pm
You've provided a simplistic, snarky (perhaps Jewish) "explanation" for what has always been referred to by Christendom as "the mystery of the Trinity".

It misrepresents the entirety of the teachings of the New Testament regarding the nature and status of God.

So... was there a point to it? Or did you just want to remind us why listening to non-Christians trying to explain how Christianity works is always an eye-rolling waste of time?

Welcome to the forum @scottfreitas

Though it may be viewed as in poor taste; it was meant as humor. So...yes, non-Christians trying to explain how Christianity works is eye-rolling and we'll leave it at that.
Title: Re: Trinity Explained
Post by: rustynail on February 27, 2024, 11:43:02 pm
Isaiah 55:8.
Title: Re: Trinity Explained
Post by: DefiantMassRINO on February 27, 2024, 11:46:43 pm
I'll leave this to the nuns and the Catechism.

(https://64.media.tumblr.com/68a730798ab92bc8534ee582da6e59f1/tumblr_mnbzr17o9C1qedb29o1_500.gif)
Title: Re: Trinity Explained
Post by: mystery-ak on February 27, 2024, 11:55:01 pm
I'll leave this to the nuns and the Catechism.

(https://64.media.tumblr.com/68a730798ab92bc8534ee582da6e59f1/tumblr_mnbzr17o9C1qedb29o1_500.gif)

 :silly:
Title: Re: Trinity Explained
Post by: roamer_1 on February 27, 2024, 11:57:14 pm
I'll  just say mysteries are better off left undefined.
Title: Re: Trinity Explained
Post by: unite for individuality on May 12, 2024, 06:01:41 pm
The Trinity can be illustrated by some of the TV commercials for Progressive Insurance -
the ones where several roles are shown on screen,
all at the same time, all portrayed by the same actress.

The Trinity is similar. The Trinity is one person appearing in multiple roles, all at the same time.
Each role performs its function. The one person is performing all of the functions.
Title: Re: Trinity Explained
Post by: The_Reader_David on May 12, 2024, 06:11:14 pm
The Trinity can be illustrated by some of the TV commercials for Progressive Insurance -
the ones where several roles are shown on screen,
all at the same time, all portrayed by the same actress.

The Trinity is similar. The Trinity is one person appearing in multiple roles, all at the same time.
Each role performs its function. The one person is performing all of the functions.


No, actually that view of the Trinity was condemned as heresy by the ancient and undivided Church (look at the entry for Sabellianism in The I Spy Book of Heresies we Orthodox Christians are issued). 

Now, that was an actual joke -- there is no such book, but we Orthodox are very good at recognizing ancient heresies in new garb, so some wag once suggested we had such a book.

One of the fundamental principles of traditional Christian theology is that there is no likeness between the created and the Uncreated, and that God transcends all created binary distinctions (as for instance the distinction between unity and multiplicity).