Re: What did your coC teach about the Trinity
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:05 am
Zeek is right. God was God the Father. Jesus was God the Son (only much, much nicer). And the Holy Spirit essentially vanished from human knowledge as soon as the New Testament was written,which was immediately after Jesus' resurrection if not sooner (we have agreed, have we not, that the coc is shaky on actual history?).
The 'gifts of the Holy Spirit' were given to the apostles, who could pass them on to THEIR disciples, BUT that was the end of THAT silly nonsense! CERTAINLY nobody NOW had any of those gifts of the spirit! What are we? Pentecostals!?
HIGHLY SUSPECT. The coc - being in their view - TOTALLY logical, could not possibly envisage a belief system that included anything so SUPERNATURAL as the Holy Spirit! Besides, everybody knows ghosts aren't real.
(yikes)
I KNOW I was taught - explicitly taught - that the gifts of the Holy Spirit (like speaking in tongues, and healing by laying on of hands) were specific gifts to the apostles, and they ended with the death of the last disciple of the apostles, who may have HAD those gifts, but could not pass them on.
This explains why the coc doesn't have any saints, either, by the way. That and a very strong anti-Catholic reaction, of course.
Honestly, the more I think about this, the more I understand why I was in the pew three times a week, and mentally checked out by age 14.
Well that, and the idea that even HAVING a doubt (never mind expressing it out loud) was a dire sin.
The 'gifts of the Holy Spirit' were given to the apostles, who could pass them on to THEIR disciples, BUT that was the end of THAT silly nonsense! CERTAINLY nobody NOW had any of those gifts of the spirit! What are we? Pentecostals!?
HIGHLY SUSPECT. The coc - being in their view - TOTALLY logical, could not possibly envisage a belief system that included anything so SUPERNATURAL as the Holy Spirit! Besides, everybody knows ghosts aren't real.
(yikes)
I KNOW I was taught - explicitly taught - that the gifts of the Holy Spirit (like speaking in tongues, and healing by laying on of hands) were specific gifts to the apostles, and they ended with the death of the last disciple of the apostles, who may have HAD those gifts, but could not pass them on.
This explains why the coc doesn't have any saints, either, by the way. That and a very strong anti-Catholic reaction, of course.
Honestly, the more I think about this, the more I understand why I was in the pew three times a week, and mentally checked out by age 14.
Well that, and the idea that even HAVING a doubt (never mind expressing it out loud) was a dire sin.