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7/12/2025, 6:11:54 PM
>>17835715
You're probably right, anon :)
You're probably right, anon :)
6/27/2025, 1:10:58 AM
6/17/2025, 5:51:39 PM
6/12/2025, 1:42:29 PM
>This shit is way too complicated
Not really, anon.
inb4 typical replies:
>How can three be one? Christianity just copied pagan triads.
Nah, that's surface-level Reddit-tier takes. Triads in pagan systems are often symbolic groupings or aspects of a single god spread out for storytelling convenience. The Trinity isn’t a metaphor or a pantheon-lite setup. It’s One God in Three Persons, co-equal, consubstantial, eternal. Not parts of God. Not masks. Not a committee. Three whos, one what.
>If it's not logical, why believe it?
It is logical, it just transcends easy logic. You don't demand that quantum physics be intuitive, so why expect the Infinite to fit inside your skull? Mystery ≠ contradiction. If God is infinite, you'd expect some realities about Him to be beyond human comprehension.
>Early Christians didn’t even believe in the Trinity. It was invented at Nicaea.
This old canard again. The Church didn’t invent doctrine at Nicaea, it defined it against heresy. Trinitarian belief is all over Scripture: the Father sends the Son (John 3:16), the Son promises the Spirit (John 14:26), Christ commands baptism in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matt 28:19). Nicaea just clarified what the Church already believed when people like Arius tried to mess with it.
>Feels like theological gymnastics.
Sure, if you approach it like a debate club exercise. But if you actually live the faith (pray the Creed, contemplate the Incarnation and the Eucharist) it becomes reality. You’re engaging the same divine Persons who moved the Apostles, the martyrs, the saints.
>inb4 "muh Council of Florence"
Yes, and thank God for it. Western theology isn’t afraid to use precision. That’s what keeps it from turning into either vague mysticism or flat materialism.
Not really, anon.
inb4 typical replies:
>How can three be one? Christianity just copied pagan triads.
Nah, that's surface-level Reddit-tier takes. Triads in pagan systems are often symbolic groupings or aspects of a single god spread out for storytelling convenience. The Trinity isn’t a metaphor or a pantheon-lite setup. It’s One God in Three Persons, co-equal, consubstantial, eternal. Not parts of God. Not masks. Not a committee. Three whos, one what.
>If it's not logical, why believe it?
It is logical, it just transcends easy logic. You don't demand that quantum physics be intuitive, so why expect the Infinite to fit inside your skull? Mystery ≠ contradiction. If God is infinite, you'd expect some realities about Him to be beyond human comprehension.
>Early Christians didn’t even believe in the Trinity. It was invented at Nicaea.
This old canard again. The Church didn’t invent doctrine at Nicaea, it defined it against heresy. Trinitarian belief is all over Scripture: the Father sends the Son (John 3:16), the Son promises the Spirit (John 14:26), Christ commands baptism in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matt 28:19). Nicaea just clarified what the Church already believed when people like Arius tried to mess with it.
>Feels like theological gymnastics.
Sure, if you approach it like a debate club exercise. But if you actually live the faith (pray the Creed, contemplate the Incarnation and the Eucharist) it becomes reality. You’re engaging the same divine Persons who moved the Apostles, the martyrs, the saints.
>inb4 "muh Council of Florence"
Yes, and thank God for it. Western theology isn’t afraid to use precision. That’s what keeps it from turning into either vague mysticism or flat materialism.
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