I think the fact that the most popular Western religion literally rests on this contradiction with essentially no pushback is the biggest thing preventing socialism. An entire population raised to believe that contradictions are reality.
I think it was John identified Him as Jesus. As I understand it it isn't that big a deal as the name Jesus is just a symbolic representation of Jesus. Similar to how the username sam5673 is a symbolic representation of my account
If you de-anglicize the names then like half the people in the Levant at the time were named Jesus, the tradition of translation has just been to turn the rest of them into Joshes and Joeys retroactively, so probably lmao.
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Jesus is God but also not God. So jesus both created and didn't create the universe.
Schrodinger's Messiah
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John 1:1 - "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
so...kinda. shrug
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i was kinda just joshing. I dont know enough about that type of theology. In my understanding, I would agree with you
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yeah i grew up in a church that had these tracks in our entry way. i am verrryyyy familiar with how absent any sort of consistent theology is.
it was mostly once i met catholics that i started learning more about the trinity in more (confusing) detail.
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I'm guessing they didn't have any of Chick's anti-catholic tracts
I think the fact that the most popular Western religion literally rests on this contradiction with essentially no pushback is the biggest thing preventing socialism. An entire population raised to believe that contradictions are reality.
Jesus is God but God is also God the Father and the holy spirit. God the Fther and the holy spirit are not jesus
No Jesus was God then too. He became human for a while later
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Guess so.
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I think it was John identified Him as Jesus. As I understand it it isn't that big a deal as the name Jesus is just a symbolic representation of Jesus. Similar to how the username sam5673 is a symbolic representation of my account
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a rose by any other name is still a rose
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Then it's not a rose and I wasn't talking about it when I said "a rose"
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If you de-anglicize the names then like half the people in the Levant at the time were named Jesus, the tradition of translation has just been to turn the rest of them into Joshes and Joeys retroactively, so probably lmao.