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Originally posted by dnaobs
Zeitgeist Refuted
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[edit on 4-3-2009 by dnaobs]
When a scribe asked which commandment was the greatest, Jesus answered (Mark 12: 29): “Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord . . .” Since Jesus quoted this ancient Hebraic tenet with deep conviction, should we not assume that he himself taught that God is one?
If so, how can the Church teach that God is three equal beings Father, Son and the Holy Ghost—who together are One?
The clergy should actually be asked this. They should be fully qualified to answer it truthfully, as difficult as it might appear to make these words of Jesus conform to the “Dogma of the Trinity”. But so as not to trouble the clergy, we shall give the answer according to the knowledge we possess.
Jesus did not “believe” in a triune God, of course. To him, indeed, such a concept of the personal Being of the true God was entirely unknown. To him, God was the Father—the One, the only One!
The doctrine of the Trinity is the work of man, but behind its original thought stood Ardor. The unity of the Son with the Father was agreed upon at the Church Council of Nicea in the year 325 A.D. (by the prevailing calendar)—or long after the time of Jesus. The “Holy Ghost” was included in parenthesis as the third part of this entity, but the parenthesis was deleted at the Church Council of Constantinople in 381 A.D. and the “Holy Ghost” accorded, instead, equal status with the Father and the Son.
As many know, and all should know, the “Synoptic Gospels” and the Gospel of John have been much altered. None now appear in their original forms. To make all four Gospels conform to the teachings of the early Church, during the first centuries, much was deleted or amended—or rather, fabricated—as judged best by the learned Fathers of the Church. But by such arbitrary deletions from, or additions to the text, the inherent contradictions of the Gospels became even more conspicuous than they had been from the start. The place referred to in Mark 12: 29 was simply overlooked during these revisions.1 In the corresponding passages in Matthew 22: 37 and Luke 10: 27, the first sentence of the answer by Jesus is missing: “Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God, the Lord is One”. (The absence of these words is easily verified by looking up the relevant passages.) The learned Church Fathers had “overlooked” Mark 12: 29, and when discovered it was too late to correct the error. The “camel” was there to stay! And generation after generation of prelates have “swallowed the camel”, feeling no obligation to reinstate the words of Jesus and expunge2 the Doctrine of the Trinity, the work of man, from the teachings of the Church.
Many a sensitive mind has been disturbed deeply by these words of Jesus, and because of this overlooked quotation many have dissociated themselves from the doctrine of the Trinity.
We await that man of the Church who, in view of these words of Jesus overlooked3 at the Church councils of Nicea and Constantinople, will have sufficient courage to undertake this necessary purging of the Christian teaching.
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