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Originally Posted by entropy
Catolicism has a lot of rituals and concepts that aren't even mentioned in the Bible. The Birth Sin, symbolics such as giving money for your sins, the entire Papacy, celibacy of priests, Hell (only briefly mentioned in the Bible), and so on. It relies on symbolics more than on spirituality, symbolics which more often than not are unmentioned in the Bible.
As for paganism, how is having one upper deity, a mother goddess, their son, and myriads of deities representing their profession (as was the case with all pagan religions, you had gods of war, blacksmiths, love, shipping, merchants, ...) which can be worshipped separately (while the Bible clearly says that you should not worship other gods than JHVH), not pagan? Does the presence of a Christian book make it different? I see the very concepts of ancient polytheism in the Catholic faith.
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In the Christian religion "The Trinity Is One God",..............
1. God the creator of all things the head of all things is one with,......
2. The Holy Spirit the spirit of God that moves and speaks to men here on Earth,......
3. The Son of God (Christ Jesus) who came to redeem men to himself, who is born of man (the flesh), through Mary and born of God through the seed of God. Jesus is God come to live in the flesh to be both a savior and mediator for mankind. Jesus is the fullness of God in the form of man, who suffered as a man without sinning. Jesus is the perfect sacrafice covering over the sins of Adam that took place in the Garden of Eden. He layed down His life (His flesh) as a perfected human being in the flesh. God's original plan in the Garden of Eden was for man to live in perfact fellowship with Him. He gave freewill to men to choose to follow Him and obey Him. But with freewill came a price. That price for those rebelling against His will would be physical and spiritual death. Adam, Eve and the son's and daughters of men waltzed by their own choice into sin. God loved them so much that He sent His Son as a perfect sacrafice to redeem us from death.
God, The Holy Spirit, and Jesus are One and the same. Different manifestations of ONE God. The Ideal was there all along. In attempting to define it the Catholic Church added the word trinity I believe to help people to understand it. As many people at the time may have pondered the mysteries of th scriptures as we do today. Now people probably misinterpret that the trinity is some how a polytheistic version of Christianity concocted by the Catholics. It is my view that they were trying to explain the three attributes of God by using the word trinity.
I am not Catholic but have met some Catholics that are very much "Born again" Christians by even the Evangelical definition. I'm not attempting to split hairs, Jesus says to be born again. The Holy Spirit will dwell in those who are born again. In turn the Holy Spirit will not disapoint us as it is the spirit of God.
May Gods Spirit Dwell in all...
Ivan