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When John the Baptist said: Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. It's obvious that he meant something bigger than our hearts, or the universal Church. Since the days of King David we want to build a house for God. It's the other way around.

The concept "person" was first developed for God. Only later was applied to humans. Really. From Wikipedia Persons and personhood are also concepts used in the early Christian theological tradition, during the first centuries A.D. by the Church Fathers. The very concept of person (prosopon in...

1. I don't know what you mean by thei "person" ¿? 2. However it was a Theologian (Boethius) who, in Greek, defined the word person, precisely to speak about the nature of God. Person as to meant human being came only much later. 3. I know you have never said that God is a person. 4. It's not...

Merry Christmas

I think it would be a good idea to open a separate thread on the question of Trinity

To be honest, I'm not yet sure of what's exactly his position. I understand the feeling. Just two boring guys playing with the definition of some word instead of going to debate the topic. I dislike that too. To be very open I've been through internet debates of all sorts and I have very...

It's not how I WANT to define anything, the problem is that you have no idea of what person means in theology. Sorry to be blunt, but you persist in your mistake but saying that "God is a spirit not a person or three persons". You can be both a person and a spirit. A Person is (again) any being...

It's not the first time that I hear or read that :)

Don't forget them. In times of storm and dark nights you might need them.

Be careful to attribute to God what you cannot be sure of. If the going turns out for the worse, the devil will use your previous certitude to attack you.

Santa is more of an American tradition not essential to Christmas. I'm not American btw, and in my home we have no santa, not for anything regarding to faith, but because it's a foreign custom.

Oh, we don't mean the same by person then. You are using the common meaning of person, in the sense of human being. In philosophy, however, person, in very plain terms, is any being able to think and communicate with others. It doesn't say anything about having or not having a body. When the...

That's Nomad's opinion. A common conservative one, but not the only one, though.

It doesn't, almost nobody care about those gods or even know their names.

Sorry, I just don't understand your position. It's pretty contradictory. Was he or wasn't He? And again, the Trinity is a model to explain how Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the Father can all be God and yet be one. It's not in the Bible, but developed to explain this truth of the Bible. By the...

To be honest, and a little blunt, I don't care about the pagan roots of any tradition, especially those that are not celebrated in my own country, :) I care for the celebration of the birth of the Lord.

If I'm reading well you are saying that the Holy Spirit is a "part of God" while Jesus is a "manifestation of God". Is it your understanding that Jesus is merely a projection of God, like the gnostic groups said. That would present a difficulty when Jesus pray to the Father and even accept His...

Well one of the miracles was His resurrection thing :) I think He really nailed his point there.

It's very hard to say who is not saved. I don't presume to know God's judgement and mercy. However, please bear in mind that there are many, many Christian groups, and within those groups many different opinions about many things. Some denominations (the Catholic for example) have common or...

Thanks for opening this thread. My experiences are varied, sometimes in church, sometimes out of church, sometimes reading the Bible, but the one I remember more vividly is the happiness and joy I fet right after working with homeless, drug-addict children and teenagers. It seems hard to...