How Is Christianity NOT Polytheism?
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Glen D 5 years, 8 months ago.
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@dave, We hear what you are saying in art, literature and mainstream Christian beliefs but it does not jive with the original manuscript. Let’s do a thought experiment, what does this verse mean to you:
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.-Matt 10:28
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This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by
michael17.
@Reg You are correct. We do not have souls as it’s been defined in art, literature and mainstream Christianity. The Greek word that has been rendered soul is nepresh has no spiritual connotation let alone separate from the body. It simply means having the breath of life from God that returns to God. Even plants and animals have the breath of life. But this breath of life makes your psyche and body alive. Psyche has also been rendered soul. But your Psyche can only become immortal through the rebirth. Your psyche becomes inmortal, but remains naked after you die and joins with Christ. But the unsaved don’t have immortal psyches. Their psyches are destroyed in Gehenna which is Hellfire.
@Reg I apologize for the reply delay. It’s been busy rapping up the year.
Michael, my psyche (naked or not) will never join with Christ. That would be my vision of Hell. Do I still get a “second birth” to be told that I am unsaved?
You will be resurrected, the the second birth is reserved for those that believe. The second birth gives you an immortal psyche.
Am I going to be somehow corporeally reunited with my body as it was before I died?
Correct.
Could the unsaved just be allowed to have their psyches burnt in hellfire after their first death?
Your life and psyche will be destroyed in Gehenna. It’s not a painless destruction.
If Christ already knows I am not going to be saved why would he need to give me a “second birth” to tell me I am not getting in to Heaven when I was already dead from my first death.
You will just be resurrected with your existing perishable mind set. No naked immortal mind for the unsaved. But those who died with a naked immortal mind will receive and immortal body.
“I brought you back from the dead to tell you that I am going to burn your psyche to death”. Would it not be easier just to introduce himself to me now so I could tell him that I don’t want to get into Heaven?
Scholars have interpreted that the nephilim shall not rise, the progeny of men and fallen angels. These beings may be responsible for the worldwide polygonal masonry that we are unable to duplicate today. It also has been associated with by inference with a global handwriting that has been found on Easter island Maori buried deep in ancient sediment and submerged sites in the gulf of Cambay. Maybe pre-Noahiac or pre-Adam. Vedic literature speaks of a lost city with a god-king. It may have been found in the gulf of Cambay, India.
Of course if he already knows this He must be a bit of a sadist to still go through with it. Just kill me once and leave me (the hell) alone after that. If not sit and spin on this! When the music is over just turn out the lights.
Do you think it possible that I could change my ugly face (see avatar) for a new younger one. No point coming back a tattered coat upon a stick, is there? Not much sex then?
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“But your Psyche can only become immortal through the rebirth. Your psyche becomes inmortal, but remains naked after you die and joins with Christ. But the unsaved don’t have immortal psyches. Their psyches are destroyed in Gehenna which is Hellfire.”
Interesting although unoriginal claims. Of course you can prove them? If you cannot, please don’t waste my time.
PS: Gehenna ain’t hell. It’s a small valley in Israel were pre monotheist kings of Judah sacrificed children by fire.. Judaism was not monotheistic until some centuries after the putative exodus. The notion of an eternal hell does not exist in Judaism, that’s a christian invention.
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The triune god:
At 12 I asked my chronically Irish catholic Dad to explain the trinity to me because I didn’t understand: “Shut up,” he explained.
A few days later I asked a brother at the Catholic boys school I attended. Quoth he “It’s a mystery of faith, we just believe” ‘ I zipped my lip.
AT 16 I asked one of the priest at the monastery at which I was on a week end retreat.
“Here, read some Thomas Aquinas” he said. So I read some St Thomas, and was still unenlightened about the trinity. With no one left to ask, I zipped my lip again. That along with some of the more fatuous Catholic claims led me part company with the church at 20.
Some 30 years later I was mildly surprised to realise I’m an atheist. No dark night of the soul, not even a conscious decision, just an inevitable conclusion.
I felt somewhat justified to learn that both Judaism and Islam reject the triune got as blasphemy.
I think _Robert_ made reference to the dying and resurrecting god, such as Osiris (who was chopped into pieces and scattered by his brother Seth) Also found in very old fertility cults, referring to the rebirth of spring.
Christianity contains no new ideas. None.
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