Where's the "I keeeeel you!" option?

An excellent try, but still limited by our abilities to understand....

Yes, Christianity let's you do pretty much whatever you want. It's easy that way because there are no rules and you kinda just make it up as you go.







 

I didn't say that to christianity, I meant Tekka's own interpretation.

OK.



 

I corrected my spelling, I meant I DIDN't say that to christianity.

 

I understood and I take your explanation at face value.







 

God said let us make man in "our" image. He was speaking about us in our spiritual bodies, before we had to be born again, which is to say born through the womb or in the flesh. We look just as we did individually in our spirit bodies, and we will return to that again after death here. Jesus was made in God's image, and is a direct representation and likeness.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

No man has see the Father: John 6:46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.
-John 1:18 No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

God is ONE.





Trinity is a man made doctrine:
Neither the word Trinity nor the explicit doctrine appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Hebrew Scriptures: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord” (Deuteronomy 6:4). The earliest Christians, however, had to cope with the implications of the coming of Jesus Christ and of the presumed presence and power of God among them—i.e., the Holy Spirit, whose coming was connected with the celebration of the Pentecost. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were associated in such New Testament passages as the Great Commission: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19); and in the apostolic benediction: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all” (2 Corinthians 13:14). Thus, the New Testament established the basis for the doctrine of the Trinity.
The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies. Initially, both the requirements of monotheism inherited from the Hebrew Scriptures and the implications of the need to interpret the biblical teaching to Greco-Roman religions seemed to demand that the divine in Christ as the Word, or Logos, be interpreted as subordinate to the Supreme Being. An alternative solution was to interpret Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three modes of the self-disclosure of the one God but not as distinct within the being of God itself. The first tendency recognized the distinctness among the three, but at the cost of their equality and hence of their unity (subordinationism); the second came to terms with their unity, but at the cost of their distinctness as “persons” (modalism). It was not until the 4th century that the distinctness of the three and their unity were brought together in a single orthodox doctrine of one essence and three persons.
The Council of Nicaea in 325 stated the crucial formula for that doctrine in its confession that the Son is “of the same substance [homoousios] as the Father,” even though it said very little about the Holy Spirit. Over the next half century, Athanasius defended and refined the Nicene formula, and, by the end of the 4th century, under the leadership of Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus (the Cappadocian Fathers), the doctrine of the Trinity took substantially the form it has maintained ever since. It is accepted in all of the historic confessions of Christianity, even though the impact of the Enlightenment decreased its importance.- Encyclopedia Britanica

 

if there is indeed some sort of deity or deities i'm pretty sure they have better things to worry about than some poorly evolved primate attempting to make images of them. ymmv

And I thought we were supposedly made in His image ??

You believe god is a primate?



Interdasting.









 

Have you read the Bible?

In the eyes of God, sin is sin is sin is sin.

Drawing or carving graven images, stealing a candy bar, raping a nun with a rake or killing a priest with a baseball bat...To God, no sin is worse than another if you rely on His forgiveness.

Like, are you serious?

Going through some deep thought?

BTW, the wife got drunk last night. I let her do it.
But then she started with the "Why are we here?" stuff.

At that point I asked the same question to myself, and I excused myself.






Bill