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[-] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

This just compressed a good several hundred years of religious schisms and theological debate that was sometimes very bloody in sorting itself out. There is also nothing to say if what became popular was actually the correct interpretation as what became "correct" was determined by political power as the religion consolidated often based more on merit of what city the bishop came from and the ecconomic flow of power. Had things gone just a little differently we would be talking about how Jesus is God's direct subordinate or how he is effectively a unique being who is one half human mixed with one half God because he was born of Mary making him half made up of her humanity which would make him a... Demigod.

Also most Christian churches believe a lot of stuff that was somebody's random fad at some point. Like Catholicism and the seven deadly sins. That was ONE guy who started something of a spiritual wellness cult, quit all the sins he made up and died because he ruined his body following his own made up doctrine. It would be like if you let a severe anorexic write the nutritional standards on packaging.

Naw bro the "pagan" in the room ain't the uneducated one. You're just carrying around a couple of millennia of political baggage and refuse to acknowledge how a bit of hubris in the generational game of telephone might have warped your sensibilities. Those first 300 years of power struggle could have hosted some very big misinterpretations since Jesus wasn't very focused on explaining his own lore so much as setting an example in how humanity should behave so flipping out about the trinity and deeming anybody a heretic seems to be kind of missing the point.

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago

There is also nothing to say if what became popular was actually the correct interpretation as what became “correct” was determined by political power as the religion consolidated often based more on merit of what city the bishop came from and the ecconomic flow of power.

There is no correct interpretation with religion.

Naw bro the “pagan” in the room ain’t the uneducated one.

You wrote a long comment about the history of it which I am well aware of, but it doesn't change the fact that Holy Trinity is the core belief of all of Christian world today and it has been so for almost thousand years.

[-] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

How can you "there is no correct interpretation" in one sentence and then the next go "but the popular one is the correct one" and not see the dissonance? Those dots are close enough together how can you not draw the line?

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There is no dissonance because I didn't say that.

There is no correct interpretation in religion, but trinity is most accepted belief among christians.

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