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1) The Bible contradicts itself a lot and Christians just make up convoluted exegesis to mask it that are increasingly detached from reality. This is because contradictions are properties of thoughts, not reality, which is a consistent process. As long as you take the first step to pretend that reality doesn't fucking matter, the sky is your limit. Just as an example, the Trinity. On the basic philosophical level, this is just Christians being evasive with what is being equivocated. If the point is that the three are equivalent in one sense and not in another sense, then that's not a mystery at all since if I had three rubber balls of different colors in my hand, they are equivalent in that whatever can be expected of a rubber ball can be expected of them, but inequivalent in the sense that whatever can be expected of a red thing can only be expected of the red ball. In truth, there is nothing that is wholly "equivalent" and "inequivalent"; it just depends on the framing. Equivalence is a property of thoughts and not reality. So the concept is stupid and banal and only seems mystical because the church fathers were also Aristotelians who believe that items can be equivalent/inequivalent in an absolute sense.
The whole reason this was necessary was because they were trying to escape the explicit charge of polytheism. The exaltation of Jesus to the realm of God was politically necessary to distinguish themselves from the Jews who they were about to massacre and expel. The Holy Spirit thing was necessary to be able to take the apostles, Paul, and the church fathers seriously. That's really it. Even your Sunnah needs to be interpreted by schools of thought, no? And those schools of thoughts usually have their ideas from whatever political issue was happening at the time. It's not a big deal since the logic is really enforced by social pressure anyway.
