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Christianity asking you to accept the trinity is asking you to accept a logical impossibility. There’s no point in trying to figure it out, the entire exercise is to make you accept it on faith and not question it. It’s not big and profound, it’s a stupid waste of time like that mind trap they made for the Borg on star trek where they would get stuck thinking about it so much they’d die.

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Jorgelino@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s like a fantasy author that wrote himself into a corner.

“Hmm, i can’t have Jesus and God be different people because i already said there was only one god, but i can’t have them be the same people because then he’ll be sacrificing himself to himself.

Hm… Demigod maybe? Nah, too cliché, i’ll just leave it really vague and let the fans come up with something, maybe add a third character to make it seem intentional” - Some charlatan, 0BC

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- barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  because then he’ll be sacrificing himself to himself.
  
  Erm. Only Odin can do that:
  
  I ween that I hung | on the windy tree,
  Hung there for nights full nine;
  With the spear I was wounded, | and offered I was
  To Othin, myself to myself,
  On the tree that none | may ever know
  What root beneath it runs.
  
  None made me happy | with loaf or horn,
  And there below I looked;
  I took up the runes, | shrieking I took them,
  And forthwith back I fell.
  
  Nine mighty songs | I got from the son
  Of Bolthorn, Bestla’s father;
  And a drink I got | of the goodly mead
  Poured out from Othrörir.
  
  Then began I to thrive, | and wisdom to get,
  I grew and well I was;
  Each word led me on | to another word,
  Each deed to another deed.
  
  Runes shalt thou find, | and fateful signs,
  That the king of singers colored,
  And the mighty gods have made;
  Full strong the signs, | full mighty the signs
  That the ruler of gods doth write.
  
  Goes on for a bit with a description of skills attained etc. Havamal, stanzas 146ff. (The stanzas look that odd because Old Norse poetry is nuts and essentially untranslatable)
  
  If you want a boring, materialist interpretation it’s a description of a psychological trial caused by the tree of life (the genome), with the result of gaining access to intuitive abilities from precisely there.
  
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