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To: TheDon
Christianity is monotheistic? That's a laugh. Father, Son and Holy Ghost make 3. That's tritheistic. I know, I've heard the post-biblical, neoplatonic trinitarian nonsense. It just doesn't wash.

You're kidding me. You know God so thoroughly because a guy found some dinner plates in 1823? So for 1800 years, we've all got it wrong, including the Old Testament, the Gospels, Church Fathers, and some of the greatest minds the world has known? Gee, thanks for saving me from my ignorance.

In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

66 posted on 05/07/2008 7:11:27 AM PDT by thefrankbaum (Ad maiorem Dei gloriam)
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To: thefrankbaum
In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Online Etymology Dictionary
"second person of the Christian Trinity," from Gk. logos "word, speech, discourse," also "reason," from PIE base *leg- "to collect" (with derivatives meaning "to speak," on notion of "to pick out words"); used by Neo-Platonists in various metaphysical and theological senses and picked up by N.T. writers.

Greek philosophers were great in many ways, but their understanding of the true nature of God was off the mark. Unfortunately, it corrupted the early christian understanding of the nature of God as well.

72 posted on 05/07/2008 7:53:04 AM PDT by TheDon
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