That is what I was told in Catholic school. How can you apply yourself to a faith that you can't understand? Think of all the opportunities to get it wrong.
2006-12-17 12:21:33 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Re: Kalia
Typos don't map into intelligence, thanks.
2006-12-17 12:32:01 · update #1
spoonfed religions create dumb followers.
2006-12-17 12:24:05 · answer #1 · answered by ? 1 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Religion is essentially an anthropomorphized metaphor that makes it easier for humans to deal with, accept, or move beyond the mysteries of the universe that they do not understand. The Trinity is just another attempt to anthropomorphize and metaphorically explain perceived divisions of body, mind, and soul.
That said, I agree that it's very easy for even the most loyal of followers to "get it wrong" when you introduce such complex, abstract concepts into the dogma. But part of the purpose of religion is to guide and illuminate the learned, and the other part is to inspire devotion and humility in the masses . I guess the Trinity thing would fall under the "inspire devotion and humility in the masses" category.
2006-12-18 18:43:46 · answer #2 · answered by magistra_linguae 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the trinity is a secret as its supporters declare, why are they attempting to describe it? the certainty is that the Bible does not help the trinity. working example, the trinity teaches that God is made out of three co-equivalent, co-eternal persons. basically supply me one scripture interior the Bible that asserts that. you won't be able to discover it because of the fact that's no longer there. Ken D mentioned that the father replaced into extra beneficial than Jesus on an analogous time as Jesus walked the earth for 33 years. (easily, it replaced into 33 a million/2 years.) If it relatively is authentic, then God replaced into incomplete for that quantity of time. He replaced into only 2/3 God. Does that make experience? Jesus has never been equivalent to God, even AFTER returning to heaven. At a million Cor. 11:3, it says that the pinnacle of the Christ is God.
2016-10-05 10:46:09 · answer #3 · answered by schnetter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are to be dumbed and misled by the mystery of trinity because you do not understand clearly why God the father
,Jesus as Son of God and Holy Spirit are in one named AllahThat is not logic.Jesus and Holy Spirit were created by Allah.Allah has no beginning and no an end.Allah has no son and no parents in line with islamic teaching.It is logic because Allah has omni power and omni creator.Whatever Allah want will be occurred
.Jesus was a human born by Maria or Siti Maryam.Maria was a daughter of Imran prophet .Jesus had no father that was a miracle of God/Allah.God created Adam without father and mother.God created many Holy Spirits.Each of this holy spirit can be blewn into the womb of a woman who will be pregnant.So I think there are no trinity because God is Allah.God can not be compared with His Creation.Holy Spirit and Jesus were the creation of Allah.That is why the three can not be in one.
2006-12-17 13:20:15 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think of the Holy Trinity as a mystery. God is God and He has used a portion of His Holy Spirit and sent to earth as Jesus Christ and in order to guide us in our trek through life He has allowed another portion of His Holy Spirit to be with us and tell us when and how we should live life. This is THE Holy Spirit. God, Jesus and The Holy Spirit. Where is the mystery? We cannot think of God in the same terms as anyone else. God is not of this earth where everything we see and touch has a beginning and a end. God has no beginning and end, He has always been and will always be.
2006-12-17 12:30:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What's not to understand?
Eph 3:17-18 "that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height" KJV
God is outside our time/space/matter dimension. As three dimensional beings, our comprehension is limited to height, breadth and depth.
The verse above says that as saints, we can now comprehend four dimensions.
The "trinity" is how God is understood now in this third age. The fourth age wil begin very soon, and the fourth person of the Godhead will be revealed.
You can become a saint and understand it now, or you can wait and see.
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2006-12-17 12:23:19 · answer #6 · answered by s2scrm 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
We are not too "dumb" to understand it....we simply over-estimate how complicated it is. As humans, we often do not understand concepts simply because we think that they are more complicated than they really are. For example, a clover has three leaves, yet is still just one clover. Similarly, the trinity has three parts: the father, son, and holy spirit all in one. Its as easy as that.
2006-12-17 12:44:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, I am not Catholic-but that answer is pretty good. That is just what i tell everyone. We try to understand an infinite God with a finite mind. There is just not enough room or reason.
I'm still stuck with "...and God said 'let there be light'...". I haven't figured out how He made light with words yet.
2006-12-17 12:27:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
People are used to thinking in three dimensions, because that's the shape of the space time which we inhabit. But God lives beyond space time. How can a two dimensional creature hope to understand a three or four dimensional being? Yet that is in essence our position. God is far beyond our daily experience. We can only understand Him through metaphor and simile.
2006-12-17 12:29:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
If the day ever came when you could fully comprehend God, He would cease to be God. Since God will remain the same throughout all eternity, I guess you'll just have to settle for a limited understanding of His triune nature--as will we all.
2006-12-17 12:36:35 · answer #10 · answered by JD 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The heart of God is the Father- sits on the throne in heaven
The face of God is the son Jesus -walks among his people in heaven
The voice of God is the Holy Spirit -here on earth
2006-12-17 12:37:22 · answer #11 · answered by inteleyes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋