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To: D-fendr; Dr. Eckleburg

And Catholics attack non-Catholics about their view of the Trinity as if Catholics understand it.

What hubris Catholics display to claim to understand the infinite God.


10,552 posted on 10/12/2010 7:26:37 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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And Catholics attack non-Catholics about their view of the Trinity as if Catholics understand it.

Then please post supporting documentation from Trinitarian Protestant theologians where they make the case that the Protestant understanding of the Trinity is different in ANY WAY from the Catholic understanding.

Please post documentation where Protestants have somehow expanded upon or redefined Trinitarian formulas after the Reformation.

If you are going to suggest that the Protestant understanding of the Trinity is different from the Catholic understanding, you need to be prepared to prove it. Otherwise, you should accept the reality that the Trinity has NEVER been a point of contention between Catholics and Trinitarian Protestants.

Are you aware that there are Protestants who specifically DENY the Trinity? They don't make a secret about it.

10,554 posted on 10/12/2010 7:35:53 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: metmom
And Catholics attack non-Catholics about their view of the Trinity as if Catholics understand it.
What hubris Catholics display to claim to understand the infinite God.

Amen

10,563 posted on 10/12/2010 8:10:46 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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What hubris Calvinists display to claim to understand the infinite God.


10,590 posted on 10/12/2010 9:16:25 AM PDT by Jaded (Stumbling blocks ALL AROUND, some of them camouflaged well. My toes hurt, but I got past them.)
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To: metmom; D-fendr; wagglebee; Dr. Eckleburg
And Catholics attack non-Catholics about their view of the Trinity as if Catholics understand it.,br> What hubris Catholics display to claim to understand the infinite God.

What am I missing bere? Catholics have been mocked and reviled more than once on this thread alone for calling things "Mysteries" -- we know and accept what the Church teaches about the Trinity, and the first thing she teaches is that it's a Mystery -- utterly inaccessible to human understanding. We know things about the Trinity; we do not claim to understand it. IIRC, it's a Protestant who claimed on this to "understand" the Incarnation, which the Church also teaches as a Mystery.

To us, a Mystery is not something irrational and fuzzy, rather something more and greater than rational, with an eternal clarity we cannot hope to encompass, though we can learn about them, gain some insight into them, be refreshed by them -- and never exhaust them.

BTW, it seems to be Protestants on this thread who are given to posts about what "God thinks" and "as God sees it," etc.

10,594 posted on 10/12/2010 9:34:09 AM PDT by maryz
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