Posted on 03/04/2023 5:33:00 PM PST by Jonty30
Although some contend that the Trinity contradicts the monotheism of the Hebrew Bible, in this podcast we show how the Torah reveals the mysterious unity of God and lays the theological foundation for belief in the Triune God. Dig deeper into the scriptures and let the roots of your faith be strengthened by this powerful podcast!
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The Torah does not deny the possibility of a Triune God.
The Jewish Kabbalah goes further
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-ten-sefirot-of-the-kabbalah
The Jewish mystical doctrine known as “Kabbalah” (=”Tradition”) is distinguished by its theory of ten creative forces that intervene between the infinite, unknowable God (”Ein Sof”) and our created world.
Through these powers God created and rules the universe, and it is by influencing them that humans cause God to send to Earth forces of compassion or severe judgment.
A truckload of made up nonsense. As far as Judaism is concerned, there is ONE G-d, only one. This is declared on virtually every page of our prayerbook. Only people claiming otherwise are messyonics, who spew lie after lie after lie. I don't give a flying fig if you flame me, this is what's true. Judaism = one G-d. Other religions of any kind = however many deities they want.
Why would I flame you for taking a position that you have studied and come to your conclusion?
A fairly studied conclusion may not be what I agree with, but I would never flame you over it.
Kabbalah is completely oral tradition. So are we Solo Scriptura or not?
The opening joke says it all...the joke is: two Jews, three opinions. Here are two (completed...ie, false Jews...) of the same opinion- that the Torah, G-d forbid, supports a Trinity. No Jews and nothing Jewish at all.
(And if they were born Jewish, their status in Jewish law is “mishumadim” having destroyed their souls- but repairable with sincere teshuvah, “return” to Hashem, and no blood necessary.
Bkmk
The original trinity was Nimrod, Semiramis (Nimrod’s wife), and little baby Tammuz!
“The Torah does not deny the possibility of a Triune God.”
Yes, it does!
Have you ever read the Shema?
שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְהוָה אֶחָֽד
Shema Yisrael. Adonai Elohenu, Adonai echad!
Listen, Israel. The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!
-Devarim (Deuteronomy) 6:4
The rabbis from Moses onward have always defined God as indivisible and not physical much to the anger of civilizations 3000 years ago to the present. Many Jews have died at the hands of the nations for not compromising that basic tenet of the nature of God. The closest he gets is Spirit. He is beyond space and time.
Even the Christian’s New Testament points this out.
“God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
- John 4:24
It doesn’t mention anything about Him being physical or divisible.
How do you handle Genesis 1:26-27, which switches back and forth between plural and singular?
“Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”
noone cares to answer that i guess, but good question- also,
Isaiah 9:6 - A Child Is Born
6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
God says “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me”- so why does Isaiah say Christ is called “Mighty God”, and “Everlasting Father”? and why does the old testament use plural for God sometimes and not others? If God was not trinity, the bible woudl always state the singular for Eloah, Not Elohim, the plural form of Eloah
Jesus said “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30)
A dice has six sides, and it looks different depending on which side you are looking at, but it’s still only one object.
And there’s also that story about St Patrick and the shamrock.
The Trinity is ONE God. Only One.
This God could though appear for example in the flesh as a man to Abraham and Sarah and eat bread with them while still being God in Heaven. Does this make God two Gods?
If Yes, then the Torah asserts two Gods.
If No, then how does the Trinity assert more than one God?
“As far as Judaism is concerned, there is ONE G-d, only one.”
The same is true for Christians. The Trinity is not a multiplicity of gods. The Trinity is One God, in Three Persons.
“The original trinity was Nimrod, Semiramis (Nimrod’s wife), and little baby Tammuz!”
Hislop was proven wrong decades ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiramis#The_Two_Babylons
Not the same. Judaism has one G-d, no "persons".
God was a man in the flesh visiting Abraham. Seems pretty physical to me. He ate fish with them. And yet God presumably was still in Heaven ruling from His thrown.
Now either this part of the Torah means that God was not one. OR God can appear as a man and also be in Heaven and still be one.
You can't throw out the God being physical or divisible in the sense of appearing as a man unless you throw out the Torah.
Who was the person that ate with Abraham and asked why Sarah laughed?
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