Historically, Father-Mother-Child was much older wide-spread trinity. The Christian doctrine of the trinity -- Father, Son, and Holy Ghost -- was not formalized until the 4th or 5th century C.E., yet the historical concept of a triune deity is much older than that, with evidence dating from the 7th millennium B.C.E. Even in early Christianity, this trinity had a female member, the Holy Ghost. As recorded in the scriptures of early Christians, the Gnostic scriptures, The Holy Ghost was envisioned as Sophia, the Goddess of Wisdom (C *). The Holy Ghost's symbol, a dove, is an ancient Goddess symbol, well-known in the days of early Christianity, as was the concept of Wisdom as female, Sophia. Father, Mother and Child (often a Savior-Son) is an ancient trinity, naturally reflected in the world around us.
Maiden, Mother and Crone -The oldest known trinity, is based on real-life cycles: youth, the maiden; fullness of life, the mother; elder years, the crone.
2007-05-02
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I don't believe it is falsehood at all. I am not of the Christian religion but If many people believe then how can it be falsehood. I think it is people that make a religion in the first place. Sure Christianity was made from many Pagan things and there is a closer connection than most Christians are willing to admit but it is still their religion and therefore it is not a falsehood.
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2007-05-02 18:20:25
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answered by Mawyemsekhmet 5
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I don't believe the core principles of Christianity- that is, the true teachings of Christ as prescribed in the Bible- can be labled as "false" just as no other religion can truly be labled as "false".
Your concern, however, is more than valid and more than true.
When Christianity- or rather, the religion widely accepted as such- became more popular, it was due in large part to the Church assimilating pagan beliefs and customs into the religion in order to gain converts. If you truly read it, the Bible never makes mention of any of such concepts as Christmas, the Trinity, Easter... even heaven and hell as most think of it- that is, a cloud laden hall/eternal damnation/ we turn into angels after we die. These were all created and incorporated under latter leaders of the Church.
Hence I would have to agree with you that Christianity (as it is perceived by most everyone) is a falsehood... or at least, has become very convoluted since... pretty much the death of the original twelve apostles. lol.
2007-05-02 18:20:07
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answered by Ruby 3
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"Father, Son, and Holy Ghost -- was not formalized until the 4th or 5th century C.E."
Not true.
"Even in early Christianity, this trinity had a female member, the Holy Ghost."
The Holy Spirit does not have a gender.
"As recorded in the scriptures of early Christians, the Gnostic scriptures,"
They aren't scripture,they are books that random people wrote.Should you have to accept something as part of YOUR holy book just because someone who wrote a book used the name of a prophet?
"The Holy Ghost was envisioned as Sophia, the Goddess of Wisdom "
not true.
2007-05-02 18:16:22
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answered by Serena 5
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Christianity in its purist sense is not a falsehood. If you really follow what The Christ taught it is a uniformly common belief in many faiths that we are all part of the Creator, or God if you will. Even the faith of witchcraft believes that. We just have allot more Gods, Goddesses that we can choose from.
Now as far as the early church taking on things that the Pagans in the old countries believed, of course they did. It was so much easier to take a certain tradition on to get people to come, than it was to kill most of them. They needed followers, not to wipe out whole countries. Though Patrick came close with the Isles, by the way those weren't actual snakes he was killing, it was the priest caste of the Druids. They had snakes tattooed with woad on their arms.
2007-05-02 18:24:00
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answered by druidwolf4816 1
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No. It means false christianity is a falsehood. We are warned that false prophets and teachings would enter the congregation after the apostles died and have they ever!
True Christians keep following only what the Bible teaches without pagan input. Trinity is one of the more ridiculous beliefs not found anywhere in the Bible. In fact, it teaches just the opposite.
Immortality of the soul is the opposite of what the Bible teaches. Ez. 18: 4 clearly says "the soul that is sinning, it itself will DIE."
Anything involving false worship, true Christians will have nothing to do with. -- 2 Cor. 6: 14-18
The falsehood is with all false religion--not true Christians.
2007-05-03 07:04:50
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answered by grnlow 7
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Yes, there are older representations of the trinity, not surprising that the Devil knew of that nature of God and spread it around in paganism so that the seed would flourish in the world for those who were weak in faith. Like the Moon GOd Allah, it has roots in the lies that Satan brought about. The Moon God Allah was perhaps an acquisition of Mohammed, who took it and Satan helped him. The Idol of Allah from Mohammed was a gift to Satan, who used it to further his evil plans and get the descendents of Ishmael to lap it up as 'truth'.
So Satan hasn't been idle these past centuries with the mind numbing that he has been giving people with Islam. The devil once again is attempting to scare people with the insanity that he brings through fear, but God's Spirit is stronger than that. And the devil once again is forced to fail with Islam. He will have to abandon Islam, and try to make Muslims and the rest of the world think that he is God. It's the last phase of what he can do, because as with Islam, his evil plans are promised to die miserably.
2007-05-02 18:27:49
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answered by Christian Sinner 7
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You really give interesting connections, but I do not think they show Christianity to be false. Rather, they show how Christianity used common ideas of the time and place it was in, to help explain Christian concepts. This would be similar to how you would have to know about MTV or X-Box to talk to a lot of young people. All people, including Christians, live in a world that already has established ideas and ways of reasoning. In order to talk about something, or communicate it to others for that matter, we have to using the framework of the place and time we live. Hope this helps explain your quandary.
2007-05-02 18:15:53
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answered by PTK 3
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Christianity and the church has nothing to do with god and Jesus. The church made up this crap a long time after Jesus died. I'm agnostic and really don't believe in any of this but when you read the bible and what Jesus taught you can see how the church twisted everything and made up their own rules. Jesus said, through me you get to god ( short version) the church added a stop first, the pope. Nothing in the bible or in what Jesus said about a Pope, Cardinals, Bishops and so on. It's the church that started this cult and their little army of doom. God and Jesus, maybe. The church and christianity, falsehoods .
2007-05-02 18:23:09
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answered by Anonymous
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It's really hard for people on this world to believe in the bible.
People question it century after century!
It's this reason almost 2,000 years ago that God sent himself in human form to let the weak , confused, and disbelievers
see with their own two eyes.
Ya know ,,"Jesus" doesn't stand for weakness!
Jesus stand for power,,Like you've never known.
You and a lot of people.
''Holy Spirit?"
That's God talking to you, me, and everyone!
Only 1 thrd listens.
2007-05-02 18:25:05
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answered by kudo452 3
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What you're forgetting is that thousands of pagans had converted to Christianity around 354 advert. a number of them have been nonetheless celebrating the pagan ceremonial dinner day on Dec. 25. so because it fairly is one reason the social gathering day (no longer the certainly beginning day) of Christ's beginning replaced into chosen: to get the recent ex-pagan Christians to resign celebrating some thing that replaced into deeply entrenched of their lifestyle. there is no longer something evil or sinister approximately this. besides, December 25 is very setting up in that it comes 4 days after the winter solstice. because of the fact the days strengthen longer with greater gentle, Christians have fun interior the wish of the worldwide interior the beginning of him who referred to as himself the sunshine of the worldwide. G. H. 1st viscount montgomery of alamein wrote, "Church leaders observed interior the beginning of Jesus a triumph of light over darkness, spring over winter and of existence over dying. What greater suitable time would have been chosen to commemorate the beginning of the guy whose existence, teachings and vicarious dying have been to alter the traits of historic previous, reason gentle to polish out of darkness and grant gentle to those who stay interior the valley of dying! it is going to likely be good to maintain those issues in ideas as you word Christmas." God isn't against Christmas. God is in choose of Christmas--of the suited observance of the holiday, it fairly is. God planned and completed the 1st Christmas. no remember how flagrantly adult adult males would abuse this holiday, they can't rob non secular believers of its ask your self and glory as expressed via the angel of previous, "concern no longer: for, behold, I carry you good tidings of super exhilaration, which would be to all and sundry. For unto you is born on the present time interior the city of David a Savior, that's Christ the Lord" (Luke 2:10, 11). finally, Alexander Hislop isn't a "stated historian of antiquity". he's uncovered as a liar, a crackpot, and a bigot, via apologists and permitted historians from a sort of denominations.
2017-01-09 08:59:00
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answered by ? 4
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