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Is this another situation where Christian theology retroactively reads passages of the Hebrew bible as indicative of trinitarian theology? Or is this something else?

Oneness can be read as not plural, and indivisible. There is a Christian denomination with heterodox teaching called Oneness Pentecostals. They are explicitly non-trinitarian, and for them, the word Oneness means they are non-trinitarian. They believe Jesus is the One God, with no distinction of...

Yeah, we used to have a situation where a friend's daughter had Thanksgiving with her boyfriend but came to our house for dessert.

When I was a little kid, and even later as a teenager, I thought God’s throne was something like a multi-sided gemstone he was within, (like someone would be in a shuttle craft) [Chariot of the Gods?] and that each religion was seeing him only through one of the angled facets. And that it was...

I also thought, at some point, that Jesus did something on the cosmic or angelic realms somehow, and saved the existence of the world that way. I just wasn't grokking the idea of the personal relationship withe the savior element. I thought something he did must have fixed things somehow, and...

Musical discrimination! Boys caught harmonizing in back hallways chased, suspended from school, parents called! Parents up in arms: Let our boys harmonize in harmony!♫♪

Right, but wasn't that in response to what @Faithfulservant was saying about it being not our responsibility to judge people but for God to judge their hearts? Isn't that reasonable?

Thanks for sharing. I had not seen that before.

Yeah, I thought it might have been Germany but I wasn't sure if it was somewhere else in Central Europe. Someone had mentioned whether the wars were affecting him and I was wondering about that.

I've always been so baffled by it I tend to look towards non-trinitarian denominations or Judaism for the preponderance of information.

The Catholics and Orthodox have more than 66 books. I think the Ethiopic Tawahedo Orthodox Church uses some 88 books. The case is often debated as to whether the Trinity is in any of those books at all, or if it is if it is anywhere but the New Testament. However many believers will argue that...

How are they trio'd up into an archetype?

Intriguing but I'm not sure what that means

https://www.lojs.org/free-pdf-book-metaphysical-bible-dictionary-by-charles-fillmore/ This is the book

The phrasing reminds me of Buddhism. I suppose if God transcends existence somehow so that the concept of existence doesn't quite apply, then you might be on to something. As YHWH is said to mean "I Am" or "I Am Who I Am" or "I will Be What I will Be" or "He Brings into Existence Whatever...

I think the term "woke" may have caught on especially since it was so vague. For a little while a few years ago, the term "social justice warrior" or SJW was popular. It fell out of favor maybe because it was hard to say -- what a mouthful. Even the initials "SJW" don't exactly roll off the...

For those who don't read it -- there was an occurrence I think I heard about in the 80s where someone in some beleaguered library in some book banning community summarized the Song of Solomon or even quote it and the local book banners were all set to take the book out of the library and were...

Imagine a platter of hot turkey wings!! 🍗 😋

Here's where Head Canon comes in I was therefore rather dubious when people preached loudly that the rules of their religion applied to everybody. My grandfather said things like that, and regular Christians seemed to think that too. My Head Canon: I thought that believing one’s religious...

Did you have a kid's Sunday School bible or a regular grown up bible? Makes sense. It seems true. It may be partially true. Those things are amazing. And that feeling does fade sadly.