Word: tritheism
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...Time for Christian Candor. He argues that the church keeps the treasure of its revelation in "earthly vessels," and that it is idolatry to accept as eternally true what is only historically conditioned. He suggests that Christianity abandon the notion of the Trinity, which has now become a pagan tritheism instead of what the church fathers intended to say. To avoid confusion of the "packaging" with the "product," Pike would do away with all spatial images of God, everything that suggests a distinction between the sacred and the secular...
...historically conditioned" doctrines as eternal truths is nothing but "well-intentioned idolatry." One such doctrine is the Trinity, said Pike, since the meaning of the terms used to express it-three persons in one nature-has changed so much over the centuries that Christians now seem to be defending tritheism instead of the one God proclaimed by the Bible. The apostles had no doctrine of the Trinity, he reasoned, so why should it be necessary for the modern church? Urged Pike: "Let us attribute to God all that has heretofore been attributed to the three persons...
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