Only if you sacrifice yourself to yourself, and ask yourself why you have forsaken yourself.
2007-01-29 08:22:05
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answer #1
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answered by Lee Harvey Wallbanger 4
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First, Me, Myself and I relate to one individual. Here is a definition of worship, you judge if you can really worship yourself.
Main Entry:1wor£ship
Pronunciation:*w*r-sh*p also *w*r-
Function:noun
Etymology:Middle English worshipe worthiness, respect, reverence paid to a divine being, from Old English weorthscipe worthiness, respect, from weorth worthy, worth + -scipe -ship
Date:before 12th century
1 chiefly British : a person of importance — used as a title for various officials (as magistrates and some mayors)
2 : reverence offered a divine being or supernatural power; also : an act of expressing such reverence
3 : a form of religious practice with its creed and ritual
4 : extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem *worship of the dollar*
The second thing you should note is that the word "Trinity" is not in the Bible anywhere. Someone thought that since there was a God, a Son and a Holy Spirit, it referred to 3 in 1, meaning all three were 1 God.
It is commonly accepted that Jesus was God and Man. This means He was a man and God. This could happen if His spirit was the Holy Spirit, as the Holy Spirit is God. He is fully man because He was born and lived as a man. Therefore Jesus is made up of 2 entities God and Man.
2007-01-29 16:22:53
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answer #2
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answered by Anonymous
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If you were to examine all the creatures, the CREATOR has made a pattern emerges: angels and demons are intellectual creatures without a body; plants and animals do not have an intellect but a body and mortal soul. IT IS ONLY LIVING, HUMAN, BEINGS, that have a MIND, BODY, and SOUL. Only human beings have all three. Now, living, human, being is the existence of man. Those words describe the essence of man's mind, body, and soul. The Body is living, the Mind makes us human and distinguishing us from animals, and our Soul makes us the being that we become (good or evil).
Now, even Muslims will agree Allah is omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all knowing), and omnipresent (ever present). These words describe the existence of God. So, what is the essence of God? I will hold off answering this question till the end.
Now, if you think about the existence of a person they have a triple existence: physical (body), mental (mind), and spiritual (eternal soul). In fact, whenever we create something it has all three of these parts. When we cook we have a recipe (in our mind), we gather all the raw ingredients, and we cook (don't burn it, ha ha) what it is we are making. Cooking has the physical, mental, and spiritual parts. Same with engineering or technology it has three parts: the blueprints (to convey an idea), the raw materials (physical), and the workmanship (spiritual). If something goes wrong investigators will look for a design flaw, material flaw, or faulty workmanship. THIS DEMONSTRATES CREATION HAS THREE PARTS LIKE THE CREATOR.
Now, in the Bible it says Jesus is the visible likeness of the invisible God. (Colossians 1:15) The ESSENCE OF GOD IS: Father (mental), Son (physical), Holy Ghost (spiritual). ONE TRUE GOD IN THREE JUST LIKE A PERSON. THREE PARTS ONE PERSON. When you are sick you send for a doctor; when you are mentally troubled, a psychiatrist; when spiritually seeking you seek out a holy person.
2007-01-29 16:17:51
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answered by Search4truth 4
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Three persons? Possibly. Like the Trinity? No way.
2007-01-29 16:39:40
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answered by The Last Good Man 3
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You are nowhere near being like the Holy Trinity. Father,son and Holy Spirit. Get a LIFE!
2007-01-29 16:42:50
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answer #5
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answered by jasmin2236 7
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Trinity
Definition: The central doctrine of religions of Christendom. According to the Athanasian Creed, there are three divine Persons (the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost), each said to be eternal, each said to be almighty, none greater or less than another, each said to be God, and yet together being but one God. Other statements of the dogma emphasize that these three “Persons” are not separate and distinct individuals but are three modes in which the divine essence exists. Thus some Trinitarians emphasize their belief that Jesus Christ is God, or that Jesus and the Holy Ghost are Jehovah. Not a Bible teaching.
What is the origin of the Trinity doctrine?
The New Encyclopædia Britannica says: “Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord’ (Deut. 6:4). . . . The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies. . . . By the end of the 4th century . . . the doctrine of the Trinity took substantially the form it has maintained ever since.”—(1976), Micropædia, Vol. X, p. 126.
The New Catholic Encyclopedia states: “The formulation ‘one God in three Persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century. But it is precisely this formulation that has first claim to the title the Trinitarian dogma. Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotely approaching such a mentality or perspective.”—(1967), Vol. XIV, p. 299.
In The Encyclopedia Americana we read: “Christianity derived from Judaism and Judaism was strictly Unitarian [believing that God is one person]. The road which led from Jerusalem to Nicea was scarcely a straight one. Fourth century Trinitarianism did not reflect accurately early Christian teaching regarding the nature of God; it was, on the contrary, a deviation from this teaching.”—(1956), Vol. XXVII, p. 294L.
According to the Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel, “The Platonic trinity, itself merely a rearrangement of older trinities dating back to earlier peoples, appears to be the rational philosophic trinity of attributes that gave birth to the three hypostases or divine persons taught by the Christian churches. . . . This Greek philosopher’s [Plato, fourth century B.C.E.] conception of the divine trinity . . . can be found in all the ancient [pagan] religions.”—(Paris, 1865-1870), edited by M. Lachâtre, Vol. 2, p. 1467.
John L. McKenzie, S.J., in his Dictionary of the Bible, says: “The trinity of persons within the unity of nature is defined in terms of ‘person’ and ‘nature’ which are G[ree]k philosophical terms; actually the terms do not appear in the Bible. The trinitarian definitions arose as the result of long controversies in which these terms and others such as ‘essence’ and ‘substance’ were erroneously applied to God by some theologians.”—(New York, 1965), p. 899.
2007-01-29 16:14:06
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answer #6
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answered by amorromantico02 5
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Nope, it's more like you and your wife being one, but even more unified, to the extent there exists no variance. Or, like a sports team being one, each member of the team has the same purpose and goal and are completely unified in the purpose, yet each individual is seperate. Jesus didn't pray to Himself when He was praying to the Father...it was to His Father.
2007-01-29 16:16:40
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answer #7
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answered by straightup 5
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No. That would be like me claiming that "daniel" and "paul" and "davis" are three different people. You can see that they are three names that I carry around to avoid confusion, but all three are the same person: yours truly. Likewise, "me," "myself," & "I" are merely labels that you can use depending on what part of the sentence you're in, but we all know who you mean.
The trinity is a Latin word expressing a concept VERY clearly seen in Scripture where the Father is called God, the Son is called God, and the Holy Spirit is called God, and then there is the Hebrew confession: "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD" (Deuteronomy 6:4). "One," eh? But then the word for "God" is "Elohiym," which is the Hebrew plural for "god." Thus, what it really says is "Hear, O Israel: Yehovah our Gods is one Yehovah." Our minds kinda short-circuit at stuff like that, but there is God telling us who He really is: three persons, one God. Believe it or don't.
2007-01-29 16:17:15
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes. You have your higher lower and middle self of course they need attention. Show your self some love.
2007-01-29 16:14:40
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answer #9
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answered by Oracle Blackrose ( Pagan ) 4
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Yes , you are a vision in your own mind .You @ Michael Jackson .
2007-01-29 16:14:20
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answer #10
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answered by Anonymous
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An egg has a shell, a white and a yoke. Take them all apart and you can still identify them all being of one egg.
2007-01-29 16:12:27
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answer #11
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answered by Stacey B 2
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