It’s annoying to explain the trinity because it’s an incredibly odd concept. It isn’t three gods, and it isn’t one singular god separate from Jesus and the Holy Spirit. It’s that Jesus is God, the Father is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. There is one God, and the trinity are all that God. They are not three parts of one whole, they are the whole. Each member of the trinity is God. The one God.
Jesus is referred to as the Word in the beginning of John, in reference to Genesis 1:1, the creation of everything.
John 1:1-5 (ESV)
The Word Became Flesh
[1] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [2] He was in the beginning with God. [3] All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. [4] In him was life, and the life was the light of men. [5] The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
This demonstrates that Jesus must be God fully. Without the divinity of Jesus, there is no perfect sacrifice to pay for the sin of the world, and without his being human, there is an inability to interact with the world of sin. Evil is not of God, and so God cannot touch it. Jesus took on flesh and with it the ability to sin in order to live a perfect life in a sinful world, which lead to the perfect sacrifice on the final day of Passover.
This is more of a made opinion of mine: We are echoes of God, as we are made in his image. We also are three in one. Body, spirit, and soul. I suspect that this is no accident. The soul is our essence. It’s an unseen body. The spirit is our will. The body is our physical self. Each of these three are fully us. Without one, there can’t be the other two. And they aren’t parts of the whole, they are each fully us.
I expect that God made us this way as yet another demonstration of himself and his nature. Creation (at least before the fall) comes from God, and as such is all indicative of God’s character and essence. We can never fully know God, as he is infinite, but we can know enough to understand the necessities of who he is and what he’s like.
All of this to say that Jesus is the one God. And the Father is the one God, and the Holy Spirit is the one God. The trinity is just a descriptor word. That word isn’t in the Bible, but I agree with the interpretation of the information that we do have.
Been doing a lot of thinking about pseudo-Christian religions today... ultimately these moments and their legitimacy as denominations tends to center around whether or not they believe that Jesus is God and has come in the flesh.
1 John 4:3
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God; and such is the spirit of Antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come, and even now already it is in the world.
If your movement does not believe that Jesus is God in the flesh... you are part of a pseudo-christian religion
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AKIRA Club
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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou - Book of Paintings + Postcard Book
"BLAME! and so on" Artbook
The Art of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Miyazaki Moebius exhibition catalog
The Art of Moebius
"Der Mond" Neon Genesis Evangelion Artbook
"EYES ONLY" SPY×FAMILY Official Fanbook
The Art of Fullmetal Alchemist 1 + 2
Elden Ring Art Book Volume 1 + 2
Dark Souls 1-3 Design Works
Bloodborne Official Artworks
SEKIRO - SHADOWS DIE TWICE Official Artworks
Grimoire Nier + NieR Art – Kazuma Koda Art Collection
The art of Alice Madness Returns
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The Art of Metal Gear Solid I - IV - Gallery Works and Studio Works
Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse -The Art of the Movie
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Alphonse Mucha's "Figures Decoratives"
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Mr Facts Man, you've gotta help! I have an exam coming up and I need to know everything about human prehistory!
I do not EVER do requests and this is certainly no exception, so no information on the subject will be given below.
Human prehistory began with our ancestors, Homo erectus. Homo erectus lived about 2 million years before English would approach the time when their name would make people giggle.
Homo erectus died out due to overhunting by the Elder Things, which in turn died out due to overhunting by Shoggoths. Shoggoths would not be seen again until the Gothic era.
Early humans, Homo sapiens, a name meaning “Same thing but smarter than Homo erectus,” developed the ability to make tools from stone, mostly by breaking the stone into tool-like shapes, such as the hammer:
The hand-axe:
And the primitive screwdriver:
These tools allowed humans to move out of their caves, which made their parents happy because after 30 million years, everyone involved agreed the time had come to move out and get a job.
This job would of course be humanity’s oldest profession: Chief Information Officer. CIOs maintained early humankind’s digital systems, which at the time were composed only of their own digits (fingers). Thus, base ten math was invented, and patented, and profiteered upon to the detriment of the poor. With the invention of cruelty toward the poor came capitalism, and the counter-invention of socialism, and the war between the two, which was then fought with more and more advanced weapons:
Humans excelled not only in finance and math, but in writing class. By doodling crude images and stick figures in the dirt, humans became able to communicate their ideas to one another more effectively. Several ideas existed at the time, including, “Let’s eat a mammoth,” “Let’s eat a rabbit,” and the still controversial, “Let’s eat pineapple on pizza.”
These early drawings became known as “Hieroglyphs” owing to their height and roglyphity, the former giving them an advantage over lowroglyphs. Hieroglyphs allowed more and more advanced technological advances to be made, such as sewing animal pelts to make better clothing, mixing mortar to create better buildings, and the invention of the earliest known smart phone:
The earliest smart phone had only one app, which allowed it to hit things. It could not make calls, nor could it access the internet, making it more useful and reliable as the common smart phone of the year 2020, which cannot hit things without breaking.
Humans also created art, in which they would smear ashes on rocks to make more accurate depictions of life and imagination than hieroglyphs allowed. Around the same time, humans invented music and the earliest music instrument:
This music was of course known as “Rock.”
Prehistory ends around 3,500 B.C. with the beginning of the Bronze Age. The Bronze Age ended humankind’s reliance on stones for technology and began the ability to make metals, namely bronze. Which comes from ore:
Indeed, since prehistory, humans have come very far. We now have cars, and guns, and electricity, and the internet, on which we learn about our world and its history, and look at portable network graphic files, such as this one:
You know how every post has a satisfying number that it hits in the likes, and how that number is always ruined by one asshole? It’s me. I do that. No, I will not stop.
blah blah blah "the Bible is misogynistic", "christianity is sexist" but can we talk about how all the girls stayed during the crucifixion while the men ran? how a good wife is described as a crown to her husband, more precious than jewels and a blessing from the Lord? how Hagar is the first person in the Bible to give God a title, El Roi, the God who Sees [me]? How Rahab the prostitute is listed in Hebrews among the likes of Abraham and Moses for her faith? How Esther risked her life to save her people in Persia? How Priscilla is mentioned by Paul as having an important role in the strengthening of the early church? How Mary was chosen to bear Jesus, the Messiah and Son of God?