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Only a group of persons can even START to comprehend the enormity that is God.

That's crazy.

Is it?

Paul started preaching on his own. He didn't wait years. You are brainwashed to think that you couldn't read and understand the Bible on your own when you very well could if you were born again.

Perhaps you need to read Cronos's sentence again. He didn't say one could not preach or read the Bible. He is talking about the immensity, the vastness, the ineffibility that is God. If you think you have a full understanding of God, then that only proves you've never even thought about the subject.

Please explain the Trinity in its entirety.

SD

Dave, can you not understand God?

Perhaps you need to read Cronos's sentence again. He didn't say one could not preach or read the Bible. He is talking about the immensity, the vastness, the ineffibility that is God. If you think you have a full understanding of God, then that only proves you've never even thought about the subject

thanks SD -- I wasn't clear enough.

FC -- note, I'm not saying in any way that I as an individual would be any more able to comprehend God than you -- probably I'd be lesser able, God knows. However, I have as they say, a little help from my friends, my family -- the community of Christ: His Church, the wisdom of generations of Christians who have contemplated God.

You take this to mean that Catholics don't read the Bible or think for themselves, just take what The Church says. The Church encourages us to read and learn more. We aren't those who just quote a few verses of ONE Church father and say that's correct (as many protestants do with St. Augustine) -- Augustine MADE errors, he retracted some words etc. as he was only human. However, he persevered in trying to better know God and he did not take people down the wrong path as Arius did. Origen too made serious errors -- his writings are ponderings and some people took them to be theology and they erred. However Origen is still considered a Church father as he was humble enough to learn more from the Spirit and through the community of Christ.