i am a christian…i belong to a presbyterian church.
i am having a problem with the trinity concept…i really only believe in one god not three…i believe in a loving god…so i tend to look at the old testament as a historical account not the word of god…i pick and choose from the new testament…
i would say that i do not believe in the christian god either because it implies that jesus is god…
but i believe in god and i am a christian…
please join in…
My grandfather thought the trinity idea was sacriligious. And he was a devout Christian. So you’re in the best of company.
He kept that thought secret his entire life, by the way.
My parents and religious teachers used to tell me a story to explain the mistery of the holy trinity:
St. something-or-other was walking down a beach, pondering this mistery, until he came up to a boy putting water from the ocean into a hole he made.
-What are you doing? asked the st.
-I am pouring the ocean into this whole. replied the boy
-But that is impossible, don’t you see?
-Sooner would I pour the ocean into this hole than Man understand the mistery of the holy trinity.
Moral of the story? You don’t get it because God is smarter than you.
(ex)Roman Catholic here.
I visited a RC church once and the priest said the trinity was like the stations on a tv.
Lol.
Yeah, they love their silly analogies. I wonder how orthodox masses are like?
I don’t know. You mean Eastern Orthodox?
Whichever… Greek, Russian. I pretty much have a clue about how protestants do things, but orthodox? No clue.
Maybe because they don’t speak english?
Just kidding. I don’t know either.
Lol, that’s basically it. They don’t speak any language I know, so it is all a mistery to me…
It does make it more attractive, not knowing what they’re saying. You can just fill in the blanks however you want!
They also dress even funnier than the RCs.
interesting…i wonder how many people out there would agree with your grandfather…
turtle–It seems that you are an undeclared unitarian. uua.org/beliefs/history/6903.shtml