Re: the holy rock of israel
- From: ppp@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:04:48 GMT
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:49:23 GMT, ppp@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Now that I am on a roll, the
fundamental contradiction I believe is if Jesus is God then how can he
be also the Son of God and at the same time have a bodily existence
on earth. Go read "The Source." I am not interested in religion
enough to care to remember such trivia.
Hey, the WIKIPEDIA article does have reference to non jewish origins
for the Trinity. Read the complete WIKI if you are into religious
matters. I'm not. Also read "The Source." Its a spellbinding novel.
[Theory of pagan origin and influence
Nontrinitarian Christians have long contended that the doctrine of the
Trinity is a prime example of Christian borrowing from pagan sources.
According to this view, a simpler idea of God was lost very early in
the history of the Church, through accommodation to pagan ideas, and
the "incomprehensible" doctrine of the Trinity took its place. As
evidence of this process, a comparison is often drawn between the
Trinity and notions of a divine triad, found in pagan religions and
Hinduism. Hinduism has a triad, i.e., Trimurti.
As far back as Babylonia, the worship of pagan gods grouped in threes,
or triads, was common. That influence was also prevalent in Egypt,
Greece, and Rome in the centuries before, during, and after Christ.
After the death of the apostles, many nontrinitarians contend that
these pagan beliefs began to invade Christianity. (First and second
century Christian writings reflect a certain belief that Jesus was one
with God the Father, but anti-Trinitarians contend it was at this
point that the nature of the oneness evolved from pervasive
coexistence to identity.)
Some find a direct link between the doctrine of the Trinity, and the
Egyptian theologians of Alexandria, for example. They suggest that
Alexandrian theology, with its strong emphasis on the deity of Christ,
was an intermediary between the Egyptian religious heritage and
Christianity.
The Church is charged with adopting these pagan tenets, invented by
the Egyptians and adapted to Christian thinking by means of Greek
philosophy. As evidence of this, critics of the doctrine point to the
widely acknowledged synthesis of Christianity with platonic
philosophy, which is evident in Trinitarian formulas that appeared by
the end of the third century. Catholic doctrine became firmly rooted
in the soil of Hellenism; and thus an essentially pagan idea was
forcibly imposed on the churches beginning with the Constantinian
period. At the same time, neo-Platonic trinities, such as that of the
One, the Nous and the Soul, are not a trinity of consubstantial equals
as in orthodox Christianity.
Nontrinitarians assert that Catholics must have recognized the pagan
roots of the trinity, because the allegation of borrowing was raised
by some disputants during the time that the Nicene doctrine was being
formalized and adopted by the bishops. For example, in the 4th century
Catholic Bishop Marcellus of Ancyra's writings, On the Holy Church,9
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