Landover Baptist Church engages in polytheism

[JRFinn]

I couldn't find a specific reference to your belief in the Trinity in any of your official doctrinal statements, but I did a search and your articles are peppered with references to it. Father, Son, Holy Spirit, three seperate but coequal personalities of equivlant power. How can one god have three personalities? Simple: You are either worshipping three gods, or one very insane god! And even if old Yahweh had three personalities, one personality of godly power is still one god, since it is not tied to one material body. So you'd still be woshipping three gods! You are no different from the heathens and "catyliks" which you bash on a regular basis.

REFUTE MY ACCUSATION AND I WILL RESCIND IT

[Nobar King]

Re: Landover Baptist Church engages in polytheism

Your statement makes no sense. Christians are mono-theistic and follow the one true God.

[JRFinn]

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No, Landover, and most christians, believe in a trinity, therefore are not monotheists.

[Rev. Jim Osborne]

Re: Landover Baptist Church engages in polytheism

God is made of three parts -- The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Each of these are seperate aspects of the Godhead. God is the totality of these three beings together.

Think of it as being the brain, the heart, and the gut. Three organs, seperate from each other, but still one person when taken together. It would be polytheism if these were truly seperate, individual, and unrelated persons but the Bible explains it is not.

The Trinity is not disguised polytheism. Christians do not deny that there is only one God (Mal 2:10; 1Cor 8:6; Eph 4:4-6; 1Tim 2:5; Jam 2:19). God is one being. However, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are all persons within that being.

There is nothing unbiblical about stating that a being can contain more than one person. As finite beings, humans contain only one person. However, God being infinite, can encompass more than one person. He chooses three.

This type of relationship is not unprecedented. Liquid water, ice, and steam are all known to be the same substance, water. No reasonable person would put forth the assertion that liquid water, steam, and ice are totally different than each other, and therefore not the same substance in different states. God has inserted examples like this in nature give humans concrete examples of a triple nature so that we can more easily comprehend a mystery like the Trinity.

[Oakland "Reb" Griner]

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Coinage, currency, and bouillon are all money, to invoke another example.

[JRFinn]

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Hahahaha I used to hear these tired old arguments from my pastor all the time. Perhaps there's a reason that christians have invariably had to resort to faulty analogies for so many centuries to defend their inexplicably sacred trinity. Inexplicable because you really can't defend it from scripture, so why is it a Landover doctrine? Saint Augustine was right when he said that the human mind cannot encompass the "truth" of the trinity: because it is a paradox, and a paradox is something that is inherently self-contradictory.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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1 John 5:7: For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

I trust God's statement of Who He is over your speculation about Who He ought to be. Also, so what if the Trinity seems to you (or to any hellbound Romanist like "St." Augustine) to be a paradox? Why should the Almighty be bound by the rules of logic? Who do you think wrote them?

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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This heathen is yet another example of how the unsaved have no discernment, and thus cannot hope to comprehend God's Holy Word. It is as obvious as the hook-nose on his face that this hateful young man has had stumblingblocks laid before him by Jesus. GLORY!!

Jeremiah 6:21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

[Father Peter Rast]

Re: Landover Baptist Church engages in polytheism

This heathen is yet another example of how the unsaved have no discernment, and thus cannot hope to comprehend God's Holy Word. It is as obvious as the hook-nose on his face that this hateful young man has had stumblingblocks laid before him by Jesus. GLORY!!

That is exactly why people should not try to figure out the Bible for themselves, but should instead submit to the teaching authority that Christ has entrusted to the Catholic Church.

[JRFinn]

Re: Landover Baptist Church engages in polytheism

Hah! even I, unsaved scum that I am, have better sense than to consort with the kiddylick church.

[JRFinn]

Re: Landover Baptist Church engages in polytheism

This heathen is yet another example of how the unsaved have no discernment, and thus cannot hope to comprehend God's Holy Word. It is as obvious as the hook-nose on his face that this hateful young man has had stumblingblocks laid before him by Jesus. GLORY!!

Landover loves Leviticus, right? Here's a little gem from that book.

Leviticus 19:14: Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.

Can Jesus sin? Apparently he can. If he wants me to come to him, he can remove the block any time. Also, consider that verse's implications for Landover's policies against the disabled.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Landover Baptist Church engages in polytheism

Landover loves Leviticus, right? Here's a little gem from that book.

Leviticus 19:14: Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.

Can Jesus sin? Apparently he can. If he wants me to come to him, he can remove the block any time. Also, consider that verse's implications for Landover's policies against the disabled.

When have we ever "put a stumblingblock before the blind?" I've pushed a few of them down, sure, but never any stumbling blocks.

You have scales upon your eyes, troll. I can't wait to see you burn in hell.

[Star Finder]

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another interesting aspect to the odd LBC beliefs is that they aver that the Christ exists simultaneously as a child "the baby Jesus," a grown man "the crucified Jesus." and some sort of Man-God hybrid as in BSG "the Risen Christ."

now don't ask me what all that junk means ... I worship simple things that the True Gods made here on Earth.

[Bob4God]

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I understand you are unsaved, so I will try to explain this in terms that even you could understand.

Think of GOD as The Three Stooges. GOD the Father is like Moe; stern, in charge and sometimes violent. JESUS is like Curly, a lovable, forgiving being often appealing the grace of Moe. The Holy Ghost can be compared to Larry, often quiet, moving behind the scenes to make things happen.

You could argue that they are separate individuals, but what would The Three Stooges be without ALL three of them? They are a single unit, and so is our GODhead. You never hear people say "I'm watching Moe," or "I'm watching Curly," do you? They say, "I'm watching The Three Stooges."

See how you can hardly tell they each have their own shoulders?



GOD bless.

[JRFinn]

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Yet you pray to Jesus all the time, which is only one member of your "holy" trinity. You pray to God the Father, and you pray to God to send the "holy" spirit. So your analogy fails, YET AGAIN.