I have read all your post. I agree to you and believe that christianity is a mysterious religion, full of mysteries.
About Qnome, you have treid to justify it. But surely the Jews should have known it before you if it was there.
planten,
Mysteries of the Faith in Christianity is not the same as the word mysterious. A Mystery is a truth revealed by God which we can know about, but not fully intellectually understand and explain with human terms. A Mystery is believed on the account of God who neither deceives nor is deceived. We believe it because God has revealed it.
The word mysterious refers to something which we can not know anything about. That’s not the same thing as a Christian Mystery of Faith.
The word Qnome (the plural of Qnoma/Qnomo) is an Aramaic human term used in calling the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, in Aramaic Christianity. I do not know what the Jews thought of this word, or the Hebrew equivalent of it, and how they used it.
Did God the father tell you about Trinity. NO. He told you that he is the Father. I doubt it. But because Father is mentioned in bible and so is the son. Also because there is mention of holy spirit there, you yourself gave importance to these three things and made them up into god or gods. Otherwise God never told you that formula. Please tell me where it is explicitly written in the bible that there are three gods, that the father is a god that Jesus is also a god and that holy spirit is a god and that all three are gods and that all three are again combined into one god.
Yes, the Father through His Incarnate Word/Son told us about the Trinity. You can see Matthew 28:19 - “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”.
The Incarnate Son/Word of the Father, Our Lord Jesus Christ, told us to pray like this in Matthew 6:9 - “
Our Father who art in heaven…”
The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not three things. They are three Aqaneem, one God. They are not made up into god or gods. They are God. The Father is God. The Son is God. The Holy Spirit is God. They are not three gods; they are one God. They do not combine together into god, like parts into god. Each is fully God, not a part of God. God told us He is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. They are not
combined into one god, they are God!
No where does the Bible say that there are three gods, because this is blasphemy! There is only one God. Do not accuse the Christians of blasphemy. The Father is not
a god, the Father is God! The Son is not
a god, the Son is God! The Holy Spirit is not
a god, the Holy Spirit is God!
This all man made (manufacture). Don’t mind, we feelthat there was no need for the church to enter into those difficulties of making three gods and then running back into the one god.
You are confused. There are not three gods running back into the one god. There is One God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Talking about mysteries, Jesus is a man and a god and a prophet too. That is another mystery. How come like that?
Jesus Christ is the Son of the Father, fully God, who was incarnated (became Man in the womb of the Virgin by the power of the Holy Spirit) for us men and for our salvation. He is the Messiah, the anointed Priest, Prophet, and King. Priest to intercede between the Father and mankind; Prophet to reveal the Father’s will to mankind; King to bring all mankind into the Kingdom of God, the Church, which has no end.
How come a god (Jesus) could die too. That is a mystery. And the God needed to come to this wretched world as a human being. That was never before at any time in the world in any part of the world. Please think about it. Why was that? That could be another mystery. May I take a break now, but no hard feelings. Wish you well in your beliefs which are all mostly a mystery to us.
Our Lord Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God who takes aways the sins of the world. In the Old Testament, the offering of an animal for a sacrifice was used in atonement of a man’s sins. The Son of the Father became Man in order to offer Himself to all mankind as a pure and living Sacrifice to the Father on behalf the sins of all mankind. This is how God redeemed humanity, the Son who is the New Adam undoing what the Old Adam had done.
God created this world as good. Genesis 1:31 tells us “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good…” It was by the sin of Adam and Eve, that our human nature was weakened, and the multiplication of sins on earth weakened humanity and all creation. This is why the Son/Word of the Father willingly became Man so as to right what was made wrong by men, to save what was lost. It is the great love of God the Father for us, that He “gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
It is out of Love, my Muslim friend, that the Father sent His Son into the world. It is out of Love, that the Incarnate Son died for us and rose from the dead. It is out of Love, that the Holy Spirit was send to comfort us, sanctify us, and divinize us. God became Man, so that by living in us, we are elevated into Him. He came down to pull us up. On our own power, we can never reach God, that’s why He came down to bring us up. All religions are about us reaching God, but we are sinners and we can never reach God on our own. God knows that, and His mercy is so great that He came down to us to take us up with Him. This is Christianity, my Muslim friend, God coming down as Man to draw all men to Him.
God bless,
Rony