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Ματαιοδοξία ματαιοδοξιών! Όλα είναι ματαιοδοξία.
Do you think it is and how do you feel about it being called out as such?
No, obviously.
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Do you think it is and how do you feel about it being called out as such?
There are two definitions of monotheismDo you think it is and how do you feel about it being called out as such?
No, except for Mormonism, which is clearly polytheistic. The closest Trinitarianism comes to polytheism is soft polytheism, which isn't polytheism at all really.Do you think it is and how do you feel about it being called out as such?
Trinitarianism is, I think.Do you think it is and how do you feel about it being called out as such?
The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three Persons united in one Essence in Trinitarianism, not the same Person.Don't get me wrong here; I'm a Christian. I just don't have a problem with God the Father, His Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost all being 'God,' but not being the same Person.
What? No. Stop watching Marvel crap.The traditional polytheist you're interested in will have 100s of Gods in a comicbook fashion, lives in tents, lives for war,
Do you think it is and how do you feel about it being called out as such?
I'm pretty sure the Bible doesn't say that.In copying the trinities of the religions around and before them, they wanted to adopt it, but since they wanted their god to be the only one, they had to somehow devise a way to make it seem like it was monotheistic. Same with the devil. The Bible says that Yahweh creates evil, but can we abide a deity that creates good and evil?
The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three Persons united in one Essence in Trinitarianism, not the same Person.
I'm pretty sure the Bible doesn't say that.
Sure, creating Hell, place of evil. Not really what you mean, though.Don't be so sure.
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Sure, creating Hell, place of evil. Not really what you mean, though.
The "names of God" generally aren't why people call Christianity polytheistic. That being said...A common mistake is to believe that the word God, is only with one aspect of the Biblical God. This isn't helped by some modern versions of the bible doing this sort of thing, >>GOD in one verse, referring to the Tetragrammaton , and, God in another verse, referring to the Biblical God. It makes no sense as you even get contradictions thusly, so forth.
So, one needs to understand the way God is used, as a name, and a word, in the Bible, before believing that there is 'polytheism' going on.
Something else to understand, the Biblical God has more than one name.
El Shaddai
Jehovah
Yah
God of gods
God Almighty
Lord Almighty
JHVH
Jesus
Adonai
God of hosts
Lord of hosts
And other names
That has to do with definitions. Monotheism has changed meaning, basically.The "names of God" generally aren't why people call Christianity polytheistic. That being said...
As @Samantha Rinne pointed out earlier with the diagram of the Trinity, The Father is not the Son, and neither of them is the Holy Spirit. Some of the names on your list refer to different persons of the Trinity (e.g. "Jehovah" for the Father vs. "Jesus" for the Son. If all three persons of the Trinity are each "God," but none of them are each other, then you have 3 gods.
- do you really think the term "God of gods" doesn't suggest polytheism?
They used evil, some bibles use calamity, so forth, might be a word study.Definitely evil in itself, but no, not what I meant.
Wait - are you saying that the term "monotheism" now overlaps with "polytheism?"That has to do with definitions. Monotheism has changed meaning, basically.
Of course 'gods' is in scripture. It literally is, the word 'gods'.
No, it used to mean just worship of one god. Theistic to one deity. Now it is specific so that the Bible isn't monotheistic, basically. Abstractions to nonsense meanings, basically. Similar to 'atheism', became abstract.Wait - are you saying that the term "monotheism" now overlaps with "polytheism?"