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Question to christians
- Thread starter Starlight
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Starlight
Spiritual but not religious, new age and omnist
Interesting answer. So you are unsure if you believe in the trinity?
Starlight
Spiritual but not religious, new age and omnist
Or do you not believe in the Trinity but are open to the fact that it may be true?
PureX
Veteran Member
That "God" exists apart from and beyond us, as well as in our here and now, as well as within us and within each other, yes. I understand "God" as being omnipresent. And that religious Christianity represents this omnipresence by using three essential relationship characterizations: "Father/Creator", "Son/Brother", and "Spirit/Benefactor".
Starlight
Spiritual but not religious, new age and omnist
Do you believe God as trinity has three centers of conciousness or just one?
PureX
Veteran Member
I lean toward the idea that God-consciousness is not "centered", it's omnipresent. God is not "a being", God is "all being".
stvdv
Veteran Member: I Share (not Debate) my POV
IMO:
God is beyond Form and Name
Hence any description is figuratively meant
Hence I don't believe any description literally
Words are used to describe that which is beyond words
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Starlight
Spiritual but not religious, new age and omnist
That is a good explanation for the trinity.
I don't believe in the Holy Trinity
I believe in what I call The Holy Threesome:
Three separate beings united into one collective entity
stvdv
Veteran Member: I Share (not Debate) my POV
Nice picture (I got these thoughts looking at it):
1) Human plus ego = Body
2) Human plus love = Soul
3) Human minus ego = Spirit
I really love this answer.
Yes. It is an allegory which makes us understand how God manifested Himself through archetypes that make sense to us...the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Correct.
There are many things we cannot check out to the point of being objectively certain we are correct, thus I all so very often hedge my bets. IOW, I don't think it's a sign of weakness to post "I don't know" if I don't know.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Correct.
That's an interesting concept... I'm going to meditate on that for a while.
Another interesting approach.
stvdv
Veteran Member: I Share (not Debate) my POV
That is always the best. Let me know what you get. Two know more than one
I think "human" instead of "man" would be nice anyway in the picture
Yes... I have to update my terms... when I say "man", I mean mankind (male and female)
I really like #1 and #3. When our ego gets in the way, we become flesh (body) and five-senses minded. When we walk by faith, ego and five-senses mindedness are not involve and you can walk by the spirit.
I'm not sure about Human plus love. I see love as a spiritual aspect. How do you process the idea? Maybe that will help me.