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2007-09-03 07:14:01 · 9 answers · asked by wwhy 3 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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2007-09-03 07:21:16 · update #1

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Well it must've been just 1 or 2 Christians, because that doesn't even make sense...

2007-09-03 07:16:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Belief in three distinct persons in the Holy Trinity could definitely be polytheism, especially if the believer forms a different and distinct idea about each "person" and confirms that belief in their mind. Good people, according to Swedenborg, have no desire to do that to their own mind though.

You will meet many Christians who are very (verbally) militant about the "orthodox trinitarian" version of the Holy Trinity - which literally means "normal trinity" belief.

Unfortunately, this belief says that there are three "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 sought to correct the Catholic creeds and statements on the trinity.

"New Age" Christians, or the new Christians that have rejected the Protestant Reformation doctrines to seek the truth, are much 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.

I say the word "like" because God is really a spirit, and God is uncreated, eternal, infinite, all-knowing and all-powerful, so that God is not like a man here on earth, and God is not like an earthly father and son and spirit that we would see on earth either. God is fully like one person in both mind and body.

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. This is called the "Divine Human" by Swedenborg. The Holy Spirit, coming forth to mankind from the Divine Human, is the Divine Good and Truth flowing out to man like a fountain of life that never stops.

There are Swedenborgian resources all over the web including my website:

http://www.christianworldforum.com

2007-09-03 07:23:48 · answer #2 · answered by Brief Boxer 3 · 0 1

You are the very first person I've ever heard say anything like that.
Are you a Christian?

I am a Christian.
In my humble opinion, a person who believes in Polytheism could be called a Polytheist...

2007-09-03 07:18:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Huhhwhaaaa??

Could you explain this please? Why would a person that believed in Polytheism NOT be a Polytheist?

2007-09-03 07:18:43 · answer #4 · answered by jennette h 4 · 0 0

Because christians have all the answers. After all, they have the "book".

2007-09-03 07:20:40 · answer #5 · answered by punch 7 · 1 1

Because some people don't actually know what it means.

2007-09-03 07:27:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Any Christian who'd say that is a loon.

2007-09-04 11:04:53 · answer #7 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 0 0

I never heard anyone say that.

2007-09-03 07:20:24 · answer #8 · answered by Maurice H 6 · 0 0

What??? DUH??? What do you even mean? Your question is totally nonsensical.

2007-09-03 07:20:14 · answer #9 · answered by no1home2day 7 · 0 0

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