Religious Cults & False Prophets~ Discussions and DebatesDistinct Persons
Brad, Thank you for pointing out my error in saying that the Hindu trinity is One God but three persons. I genuinely thought that Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva were different persons (Trinity Godhead), and not the same person in different modes (Modalism). However, we are talking about the way people use words. One persons definition of God is different to anothers, and one persons definition of a person is different to anothers. Humans can't claim one meaning over the other as a means of refuting a doctrine whether it be Trinitarianism, Modalism or Unitarianism. To refute any of these doctrines we must refer to "God's Word". The trinity debate must rely on the internal evidence of "God's Word" otherwise we lose the debate to philosophy which is the word of men. Whilst I appreciate that Modalism is easier to understand than Trinitarianism, another member of this forum quite rightly pointed out that Jesus qualified his own witness and his father's witness to be the witness of two persons. To say that Jesus and The Father are the same person (which is what I understand Modalism to be), is to deny Jesus' word that his witness and his father's witness was the witness of TWO. |
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