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To: SoothingDave
Just cause He has Three persons within does not make him "poly."

"Polypersonal" if not "polyontological".

1,750 posted on 07/11/2003 10:58:04 AM PDT by malakhi
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To: SoothingDave; ET(end tyranny)
Just cause He has Three persons within does not make him "poly."

Also, by this standard, Hinduism is not polytheistic.

http://hinduwebsite.com/hinduism/h_polytheism.htm

According to the tenets of Hinduism, God is one as well as many...

Therefore for a Hindu the worship of gods and goddesses is not a mere superstitious idolatry but an act of faith and a form of communication, a way of placing our cares and concerns in the hands of God, the One Supreme Universal Self, of infinite dimensions, who envelops the worlds, the planets and the whole universe and is also hidden in them. The gods and goddesses are His different forms, the many hands, feet and faces of the one Supreme Purusha, the universal Self

1,751 posted on 07/11/2003 11:02:29 AM PDT by malakhi
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