The Trinity is the Heresy

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The Trinity is the Heresy

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the story of Jesus on the cross should end ... It has become too much of an idol, especially in certain branches of Christianity. The crucifixion should not be the object of our attention any more than the serpent on the pole [Numbers 21:8-9]. Like all idols, they have to be destroyed [the bronze serpent 'that Moses had made' was destroyed in 2 Kings 18:4].
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We are looking for some way to relate to this God which is an unrelatable, complicated, impossibly incomprehensible being. So, we look to things like Jesus on a cross, serpents on poles, leaves, even doctrines like the Trinity.
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The doctrine of The Trinity arose out of a need to say what was true and what was not true about Jesus, who he was, what kind of being he was. Good people did the best they could to figure it out and some of them, people we now call heretics, had taken some kernel of truth and made it their only truth. There can’t be any condemnation in that, though a lot of them did get burned at the stake. (#BadOutcome) The fact of the matter, though, is that we have replaced the heretical kernel of truth with the Trinitarian kernel of truth. There really are three expressions of God, and at least 3,000 more. The heresy is not in naming them, but in thinking that we can somehow manage the nature of God by naming and organizing it.

Here are some alternative Trinitarian formulations:

Oh, God… Beginning, Middle, and End.
Oh, God… Giver of life, Trouble, and Death.
Oh, God… Creator, Destroyer, Desolation.
Oh, God… Lover, Fighter, Weirdo.
Oh, God… The question, The Answer, The Wonder.

It’s all really just a reflection of us. What about you? If you have to reduce it to only three, what Trinitarian formula would you use? Can you recognize that the tired old patriarchal formula we currently use is really just the best people could do at the time, not the end-all and be-all explanation? Let the wind of the Holy Spirit blow in some new ideas, new names, new ways of thinking and talking about the one who is beyond words. And, if it turns out that you’re a little bit of a heretic, don’t worry. We all are.

https://www.episcopalcafe.com/the-trini ... he-heresy/

Somewhat of an aside, but interestingly related, is John 3:14 -

4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”

5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

9 Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”

10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? 11 Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man [who is in heaven]. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should [not perish but] have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
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