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From: purtell@reed.UUCP (Lady Godiva)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Trinity
Message-ID: <1750@reed.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 17:19:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 17:19:20 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Aug-85 10:25:27 EDT
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Reply-To: purtell@reed.UUCP (Lady Godiva)
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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Summary: 

In article <603@usl.UUCP> dkl@usl.UUCP (Dwayne K. Lanclos) writes:

>Of course the Holy Spirit is the same thing as God!  That's what the
>concept of the Trinity means:  one God demonstrating three different aspects.
>Down through history, the experience of God has been that which gives life
>and meaning to our existence (the Father), as realized in human history
>(the Son), and as the spirit dwelling within each of us (the Holy Spirit).
>The Trinity is the formulation used to express this experience in language:
>three persons in one God.

   Ok. Although that is the orthodox definition of the Trinity, I've
known many trinitarians who did not believe this. They believed in three
separate, destinct entities. And if we're defining being a trinitarian
as believing that there are three different aspects of God, I happen to
believe that there are far more than three. But I don't really care what
people believe about the godhead, it doesn't make any difference to your
Christianity as far as I'm concerned. So I hope that this doesn't get
into a discussion about trinity vs oneness vs ...

   cheers -

   elizabeth g. purtell

   (Lady Godiva)