2007-09-03 07:03:41 · 3 answers · asked by wwhy 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We are commanded in Exodus 20:3-5, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me" God is our Creator and our redeemer. We cannot believe in a multiplicity of gods when we are commanded to worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob the great patriarchs of the Bible. That is idolatry.
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2007-09-03 07:48:37 · answer #1 · answered by gatita 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Polytheism is ridiculous.
The "orthodox trinitarian" version of the trinity - which literally means "normal trinity" belief - is erroneous. Unfortunately, this belief says that there are "persons" in the trinity. This is also called "tri-unity" or three persons who think as one.
The Catholic churches (both Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox) hold this view as do Protestant churches who hold Protestant Reformation theology. Protestant Reformation theology, unfortunately, never corrected the Catholic churches on the trinity.
New Age Christians are verbally abused for believing in the "oneness trinity" or "monotheist trinity" by the orthodox trinitarians.
I hold a oneness belief that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is like the soul, the body and the works in a single person.
God is a spirit and God is uncreated, eternal, infinite, all-knowing and all-powerful, so that God is not like a man like here on earth and God is not like an earthly father and son and spirit like you would see here on earth either.
Swedenborg, in his Universal Theology of the New Jerusalem, says that the Lord God Jesus Christ is the God of heaven, and that is Jesus Christ, after the body was raised again, made Divine, and ascended to heaven and sent forth the Holy Spirit to man. The Holy Spirit is the divine flowing out to man like a fountain of life that never stops.
There are Swedenborgian resources all over the web. The original books are in free ebook form all over.
2007-09-03 14:10:07 · answer #2 · answered by Brief Boxer 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
really bad
but for a sin to be mortal it has to be freely chosen which would mean that only the polytheist who is a convinced monotheistic believer in the God of Abraham would be guilty not sincere polytheists
2007-09-03 14:10:56 · answer #3 · answered by James O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋