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Posted by: lucious
« on: February 25, 2017, 04:50:28 AM »I'd recommend Gilles Emery--The Trinitarian Theology of St Thomas Aquinas.
Very in depth and rigorous. Oxford Handbook on the subject is also very good, too.
Very in depth and rigorous. Oxford Handbook on the subject is also very good, too.
Posted by: Truth26
« on: February 14, 2017, 10:15:15 PM »Lets say I could only read one book on the trinity what would it be? Is there a book that covers everything one needs to know about the trinity? I am a christian who does not believe in the trinity but would love to but if I don't understand it and it makes no sense then how can I reconcile things like the absurdity of Jesus just saying one day "ya know what i'm going to planet earth in the year 3 bc and i'm going to die for the sins of adam and his ancestors and show adam how its done etc" ya get the point. It seems absurd to me that this is what trinitarians believe.
I find it hard to make sense of Jesus being God and tempted and to use the excuse of well he has 2 natures seems like something you make up to keep the belief in the trinity going. Theres a lot things in the trinity that are like this that seem made up to keep the belief in the trinity going. The list goes on and on. It's like lets play the game of what excuse will the trinitarians come up with this time. Thats just how I feel about the trinity but I am open to it being true and would of course want to believe it if it were true. I've prayed a lot about the topic but every answer I have received has been that its not true. So maybe if I read a book about it I will get an aha moment. The analogies trinitarians use never help and probably never convinced anyone who was honest about it that the trinity exists.
I find it hard to make sense of Jesus being God and tempted and to use the excuse of well he has 2 natures seems like something you make up to keep the belief in the trinity going. Theres a lot things in the trinity that are like this that seem made up to keep the belief in the trinity going. The list goes on and on. It's like lets play the game of what excuse will the trinitarians come up with this time. Thats just how I feel about the trinity but I am open to it being true and would of course want to believe it if it were true. I've prayed a lot about the topic but every answer I have received has been that its not true. So maybe if I read a book about it I will get an aha moment. The analogies trinitarians use never help and probably never convinced anyone who was honest about it that the trinity exists.