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05-14-2007, 11:13 AM
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Invisible Thad
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Ingersoll on the Trinity
“Christ, according to the faith, is the second person in the Trinity, the Father being the first and the Holy Ghost the third. Each of these persons is God. Christ is his own father and his own son. The Holy Ghost is neither father nor son, but both. The son was begotten by the father, but existed before he was begotten--just the same before as after. . . .
“So, it is declared that the Father is God, and the Son God, and the Holy Ghost God, and that these three Gods make one God.
“According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction, if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one, we have but one. . . .
“Nothing ever was, nothing ever can be more perfectly idiotic and absurd than the dogma of the Trinity.”
-- Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899), "The Trinity" (from "The Foundations of Faith," The Works of Ingersoll).
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05-14-2007, 11:21 AM
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“So, it is declared that the Father is God, and the Son God, and the Holy Ghost God, and that these three Gods make one God."
LOL! Just where is this declared?
It is easy to say what others declare - if it's not required to quote the same.
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Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
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05-14-2007, 12:45 PM
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Its declared in the official doctrinal statement of many trinitarian believing organizations.
I agree it to be absurd!
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05-14-2007, 12:53 PM
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His Eminance, High Potatohead Potatotate
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It would be much simpler to quote Scriture.....
There are three that bear record in Heaven.. the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost... and these three are one...
But hey... What do we know????  ...
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05-14-2007, 12:56 PM
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Who is this Ingersoll guy? I notice he has been dead for over 100 years. Is he considered a mainstream trinitarian theologan or some oddball somebody dug up to prove a point?
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05-14-2007, 05:24 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CC1
Who is this Ingersoll guy? I notice he has been dead for over 100 years. Is he considered a mainstream trinitarian theologan or some oddball somebody dug up to prove a point?
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He was Aceaton assistant pastor for almost 15 years when Aceaton pastored in Tombstone.
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05-14-2007, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Carpenter
He was Aceaton assistant pastor for almost 15 years when Aceaton pastored in Tombstone.
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Oh! So someone from Acteon's middle aged years? 
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05-14-2007, 01:37 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Thad
“Christ, according to the faith, is the second person in the Trinity, the Father being the first and the Holy Ghost the third. Each of these persons is God. Christ is his own father and his own son. The Holy Ghost is neither father nor son, but both. The son was begotten by the father, but existed before he was begotten--just the same before as after. . . .
“So, it is declared that the Father is God, and the Son God, and the Holy Ghost God, and that these three Gods make one God.
“According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction, if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one, we have but one. . . .
“Nothing ever was, nothing ever can be more perfectly idiotic and absurd than the dogma of the Trinity.”
-- Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899), "The Trinity" (from "The Foundations of Faith," The Works of Ingersoll).
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I think he was agnostic but correct on this. 
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05-14-2007, 01:37 PM
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Wouldn't Take Nothin' For My Journey Now!
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Very interesting site! http://loveofthetruth.org/Shows.html
Click on the "Trinity Nyet".
Falla39
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05-14-2007, 02:18 PM
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Wouldn't Take Nothin' For My Journey Now!
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Ingersoll on the Trinity
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