Is the trinity idolatry? You can say it isn't because it's

idolatry is worshipping statues or images, the trinity is a theological concept

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You can be polytheistic and not idolatrous. But the Trinity is not polytheist, and the Icons of worship are not idols.

Idols are prayed to, icons help men empathize with the torture Christ endured. When you look at the Crucifix, you put yourself there and are forced to ask yourself whether you'd be one of those holy few who wept at his feet or one of the many who defied and called out for his death.
It's all very clear and Holy.

>>3342590
Is this the most hardcore rendition of the crucifixion?

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>>3342595
They're called Plague Crosses, or Pest Kreuzen, and were very popular in post plague Germany.

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>>3342595
Their focus was to show what Christ willingly endured for the sake of the people. It's thought to represent the mindscape of those suffering a world where death was possible at any instant due to plague.

>>3342535
It would not be if christians worshiped the whole God and not sometimes the son and sometimes the father.

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Religion itself is idolatry

>>3342535
Not different faces. The faces portrayed by the gospels, and by the cherubim, are completely separate from the concept of the trinity.

The trinity is one, threefold God. One God.

The faces of God as portrayed in the bible are as the Lion or King in Matthew, the Ox or Suffering Servant in Mark, the Son of Man in Luke, and the Eagle, the Son of God in John.

>>3342535
John 1 says that the Word (Jesus) was with God and was God…..and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
In John 10:30 Jesus said that He and the Father are one.
In John 14:9 He said that anyone who has seen Him has seen the Father.
In Colossians 1:15 Paul wrote that Jesus is the (visible) image of the invisible God.
In Hebrews 1:3 Jesus is called the exact representation of God’s glory
In Hebrews 1:8 God Himself called Jesus God.
God’s Spirit is presumed to be one and the same with God just as your spirit is presumed to be one and the same with you. So if God and Jesus are one and the same, and God and His Spirit are one and the Same, then the three are one.

There is one God (Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 45:5-6). Yet there are three persons presented as deity in Scripture: the Father (John 6:27; Colossians 1:3), the Son (John 1:1-3, 14; 8:24; 20:28-29; Romans 9:5; Titus 2:13; 2 Peter 1:1; Hebrews 1:10-12) and the Holy Spirit (John 14:16-17; Acts 5:3-4; 2 Samuel 23:2-3; 2 Corinthians 3:18). Lastly, these three are presented as distinct persons (John 8:16-18; Luke 11:1; 3:21-22; Galatians 4:6). Thus from Scripture we learn that although there is one God, there are three distinct persons who are deity. So the Trinity is the biblical position to hold to once one examines what Scripture teaches.

>>3342535

The early church did not have the trinity. The bible also does implicitly or explicitly support the trinity, whether it is heresy or idolatry depends on the particular denomination but not all Christians will believe the same thing. iirc,there was a survey that showed the trinity is only really understood properly by the clergy, the laity seriously DO NOT understand it and usually think of it in heretical terms.

>>3342692
>The early church did not have the trinity.

They absolutely did, because the Trinity is eternal.

>>3342692
>>3342688

Show me the heresy.

>sparta

Doesn't exist

>athens

Still thriving 2k years l8r

Hmm who really got cucked tho??

>>3342696

Believe what you want.

>>3342715
I'll believe in the eternal God, and you can believe in proto-Catholics who were taking over for Babylonian pagans and gnostics.

>>3342721
See
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>>3342727
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>>3342721
The trinity is a Catholic invention

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>>3342535
God is a being utterly beyond comprehension, and as such utterly defies classification or identity.

The trinity is a tool used to conceptualize the divine, describing it as the function of a relationship.

It is similar to trying to describe gravity: virtually impossible except as the function of a relationship: the apple falls from the tree and hits the ground, the moon orbits the Earth, while both orbit the sun. The arrow falls towards the ground

"God" is not the creator, the Earthly manifestation of perfection, nor is God the animating spirit present within all of us: it is the interchange of those three things which we use to indirectly describe God. We learn more about God by studying creation, by studying the scripture, and by studying ourselves and each other. Believing that salvation can come only by mindlessly harping on the scriptures to the exclusion of the sciences or the exoteria is the cancer killing protestantism