Is worshiping the trinity just good, sensible bargain shopping?

Question

Three gods for the price of one?

Mikenanda -- Okay, how about "purchase the trinity, and get Mary for half-price?"

Answer 1

Wow, Dollar General religion. I like it, because it's in walking distance.

Answer 2

Considering the fact that you don’t really know what you’re buying, I’m not so sure. I have never heard anyone who worships these three gods also have the ability to define exactly what they’re worshipping, but they always insist that the trinity is just on god or monotheism. I believe that Jesus was a paranoid schizophrenic man who may have actually believed he did many of the things attributed to him. I was thinking about what might be going on inside the head of this guy who thought he was god as well as the son of god. I came up with a hypotheses where he actually thought he was light from the sun or father and the Holy Spirit was the ether or space through which the sun rays passed before hitting the object they lit up such as the water that reflects these rays. I know this sounds crazy, but in the mind of a mad man it might make sense. I am sure someone else has thought of this, but it just came to me after watching the Zeitgeist and several other films that are floating around the internet.

Answer 3

God is a trinity of persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is not the same person as the Son; the Son is not the same person as the Holy Spirit; and the Holy Spirit is not the same person as Father. They are not three gods and not three beings. They are three distinct persons; yet, they are all the one God. Each has a will, can speak, can love, etc., and these are demonstrations of personhood. They are in absolute perfect harmony consisting of one substance. They are coeternal, coequal, and copowerful. If any one of the three were removed, there would be no God.

Answer 4

Bargain shopping? How can you shop for something that doesn't exist?

What is the trinity? In a nutshell, there is one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son (Jesus Christ) and Holy Spirit. The three persons of the Godhead are coequal and co-eternal.

Now that you have the definition, can you 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? Can you 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.

According to the trinity, God is made up of three "persons." What Jesus said at John 17:3, disproves that. There, he said in prayer to his Father: "This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ." So, instead of teaching a 3-in-one God, Jesus taught that his Father was the ONLY true God.

Answer 5

Trinity is the perfect worship
the father the son and the holy spirit

Answer 6

If you worship one divine person of The Trinity, you are automatically worshipping the other two.

Answer 7

Isn't it buy 3 and get one free...don't you get Mary thrown in there in addition? She gets prayed to after all.

Answer 8

Now we are shopping for your dieties in bulk at Sam's Club

Answer 9

rebel, don't you have something else better to do. like pick on the republicans in the OTHER category

Answer 10

GODS SEEM TO BE A DIME A DOZEN SO THREE IS A FAIR DEAL.