Mithraism was injected into Christians and after 2,000 years intelligent people are rejecting this falsehood in larger numbers ?
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2007-06-05 03:43:45 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Mithraism makes a man into GOD.
Islam believes Jesus is the Jewish Messiah.... Messiah has never meant the son of God or anything near that.
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2007-06-05 03:54:18 · update #1
Umm . . . no
2007-06-05 03:49:38 · answer #1 · answered by gerafalop 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Father is God (John 6:27, Eph 4:6)
Jesus Christ is God (Heb 1:8, John 1:1)
The Spirit is God (Acts 5:3-4)
The three are associated (Matt 28:19, 2nd Cor. 13:14)
For a start, to say there is no scriptual basis for the Trinity is false. These verses are a small sampling from the NT, not to mention OT intimations.
"I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life. No man comes to the Father, but by me."
2007-06-05 11:05:34 · answer #2 · answered by Graham 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Belief in the trinity has absolutely nothing to do with polytheism. I explain it to very young children not yet capable of higher thinking by using the example of an egg. An egg has a shell, a white part, and a yolk. But it's one egg. It just has three different parts that have their own functions. God the Father, "Son", and Holy Spirit are all one, these are just the different facets of God. Jesus himself said "I and the Father are one." The terms father and son are only used to make something beyond our comprehension a little more accessible to our understanding.
2007-06-05 10:52:25 · answer #3 · answered by em T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to burst your bubble. The Catholic Church celebrated the Trinity just last Sunday at Mass. The Trinity is a Scriptural concept and has its origins in both the Old and New Testaments. There is a better and far more thorough explanation and defense of the concept of the Trinity than I could hope to present at the following website:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15047a.htm
2007-06-05 11:17:52 · answer #4 · answered by nardhelain 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the last days there will be a "falling away". I would not be surprised at all that more self-professed Christians start believing "every wind of doctrine" because they are not grounded in the Word of God. How many people do you think make absolute assertions about the Bible but have never really read it with an open mind?
2007-06-05 10:50:32 · answer #5 · answered by M&S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I invite you to search the Bible, especially the 27 books of the Christian Greek Scriptures, to see for yourself if Jesus and his disciples taught a Trinity. As you search, ask yourself:
1. Can I find any scripture that mentions “Trinity”?
2. Can I find any scripture that says that God is made up of three distinct persons, Father, Son, and holy spirit, but that the three are only one God?
3. Can I find any scripture that says that the Father, Son, and holy spirit are equal in all ways, such as in eternity, power, position, and wisdom?
Search as you may, you will not find one scripture that uses the word Trinity, nor will you find any that says that Father, Son, and holy spirit are equal in all ways, such as in eternity, power, position, and wisdom. Not even a single scripture says that the Son is equal to the Father in those ways—and if there were such a scripture, it would establish not a Trinity but at most a “duality.” Nowhere does the Bible equate the holy spirit with the Father.
2007-06-05 11:01:12 · answer #6 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Haha oh common. There is no proof Mithraism was "injected" into Christianity. You can't just say something like that and pretend it's fact.
2007-06-05 10:51:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not Christians who read AND STUDY their Bibles. Sounds like you're hoping rather than asking a legitimate question. Trinity and polytheism are not one and the same, if you are a reader and researcher. But if you're so simple that all you do is scratch the surface, sending out tester questions, then you aren't concerned with the truth. You just think you're right already.
2007-06-05 10:51:02 · answer #8 · answered by singwritelaugh 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
if you admit that jesus was based on mithraism but your a muslim and you believe the miracles and virgin birth of jesus which were also part of the mithra myth so what your doing is bashing your own beliefs odd isnt it?
EDIT mithra born of a virgin healed the sick raised the dead killed resurrected ascended to heaven and jesus is not the jewish messiah do you think the jews got their messianic prophecies wrong?
2007-06-05 10:48:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I should hope so there is no scriptural basis for the belief.
Nor is there any scriptural basis for the worship of any person or thing other than God the Almighty through Jesus His Christ.
2007-06-05 10:51:23 · answer #10 · answered by .*. 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
True christians reject the trinity because it has no scriptural basis. It is not that "intelligent people" are rejecting the Bible.
2007-06-05 10:52:32 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋