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To: angelo
LOL! I noticed that this is your first post today. I trust you have now 'recovered' from your 'celebration'?! ;o)

No. I was busy this morning. I'm having my house fenestrated. Now next Tuesday might be a different story...

SD

1,845 posted on 10/22/2001 11:46:41 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Havoc
Where do you find the word Trinity in the Bible?

Oh, and almost forgot this. Trinity is shorthand as far as I'm concerned for Father God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. It is not a necessary term as the essentials of it are in the Bible and stand on their own. I'd just as soon reference the three of them than use the word unless I were writing it all out, which is the only time I bother with it. So, in short, it is not in the Bible, nor does it need to be. I'm not certain I really understand the point behind someone coming up with the term to be quite honest - I don't see that it is needed.

It has been pointed out already, but I just want to amplify. There is a very specific meaning of the Trinity that you have shown no idea of understanding. Trinity could just as easily mean three faces of one God, or Three Gods acting together. It means three persons in one divine nature. It means something today and it had meaning when the heretics were fought and the term defined. To sit here in the 21st Century and say "I don't see that point behind coming up with the idea" is, well, typical. Typical anti-historical and anti-intellectual, that is.

SD

1,848 posted on 10/22/2001 11:50:20 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
No. I was busy this morning. I'm having my house fenestrated.

Made me go to google on that one. For the benefit of those who might think fenestration is some sort of sinister Catholic ritual:

Would you let anyone fenestrate your building? You do when you let your architect put openings in it. Fenestrations are usually window openings and, if your architect uses this word, he is eager to impress you. Don’t be. Anyone can do it. Windows, doors, glass and glazing are all covered in this division.

1,850 posted on 10/22/2001 11:52:54 AM PDT by malakhi
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To: hopefulpilgrim
Does that mean that your knowledge of Scripture can continue to grow over time?

R U kiddin'? My knowledge of Scripture, my knowledge of the Lord, my knowledge of myself is still growing. I don't know how many times I've read a familiar verse or passage and ¡*BOOM* ! I'll suddenly understand something or notice something I'd never understood or noticed before. Lights come on all the time; and it's exciting when that happens! Like when I realized the connection between Romans 8:13 and Heb. 9:14. Perhaps something like a magic sternum or a preacher could've told me that---but that would've taken all the fun out of the discovery.

Again we see the Protestant individualism. I could have learned it from someone else in authority, but it wouldn't be as much fun. And we know that having rewarding personal feelings is the goal.

SD

1,852 posted on 10/22/2001 11:53:25 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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