TRTR(1) Eye Goddesses Wearing Dipthongs

[Paul Mackin]

>
>  I've always been puzzled by why they thought that mattered so much.
>  Not quite enough to read up on it, but puzzled. I mean, you're
>  positing a tripartite Godhead, right? What practical implications
>  does that have? What religious implications, even?

The Trinity was a necessary religious invention for a cruel and uncaring 
world.

The world was an awful place for 99 percent of humanity.

Only a fully human, suffering and dying, born-of-woman God could be  
counted on to fully understand the plight of humanity in such an unjust 
world.

But an all-powerful, creator God, someone with clout,  was needed also.

A bit of a contradiction but that was OK. The world was already absurd. 
(still is)

They settled on "same substance" the most absurd of the three choices. 
(bite the bullet)

  It was the only one of the three possibilities that slammed the door 
on arguments over whether Jesus was truly human or truly divine.  (the 
rationalists wanted things real clear)

Although Christianity had to be based on a contradiction, there didn't 
seem to be better answer available.



Credo quia adsurdum.

Tertullian or somebody.

P











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