Ethel, if God came to earth in the form of Jesus, then why did Jesus cry out to God from the cross and ask why God had forsaken him? Was he talking to himself?
First of all there is not even a single unequivocal statement in the Bible where Jesus (pbuh) himself claimed to be God. Then is there any Bible in the world supervised at least if not written by Jesus himself?
They're meant to be monothiests (only believing in one God) yet they want to believe in a supernatural messiah.
So they have to have this concept of a trinity where t supernatural entities are both part of the same thing and in some way different.
It all gets very mystical and they can't even agree amoungst themselves about it - the great split between Catholicism and Eastern Orthadox was largely about this.
No wonder Muslims point at Chistians and accuse them of polythesism and idol worship. Especially if you look at some Catholic churches with gilded statues of Saints and people praying to Mary.
Mainstream Christian churches believe so (e.g. Roman Catholic, Church of England, Church of Scotland), as do Baptists, Methodists and Evangelicals. The reason is because of the Nicene Creed they all hold. But there are churches who do not hold this view, such as the Unitarians and Quakers.
I'm with the Unitarians and Quakers on this one.
A lot of the thinking here is confined to something akin to the old mono records, or a black and white and whte films, whereas the truth is mor like technicolour, suround sound, high deinition, stereo, holographic state of the art etc etc.
Who's trapped in a mind set?