From: Dick Fischer (dickfischer@genesisproclaimed.org)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 10:22:59 EST
Hi George, you wrote:
>Dick Fischer wrote:
>
> > If the early Accadians worshipped a triad of gods rather than one
> > god, and if those gods were the equivalent of our trinity, and if Ea
> > corresponds to "Emmanuel," then it may be that they worshipped in
> > fact the pre-incarnate Christ.
> >
> > In other words, our saviour today who exists in spirit may have been
> > the one they knew as "Ea." If so, then it is possible that Christ to
> > us was Ea to them - the same God.
>
> Many people, both pro- & anti- the Christian doctrine of the
> Trinity, have
>tried to equate various triads of deities with Father, Son & Holy
>Spirit. (The
>Jehovah's Witnesses, e.g., will tell you that the Trinity is
>Babylonian.) The Celts,
>Hindus & probably a lot of others have had such triads. But the Christian
>understanding
>of God as Trinity does not have to do simply with some idea of 3-ness in
>God. It is
>connected in a fundamental way with the belief that God has revealed
>Godself in Jesus of
>Nazareth, & specifically in the cross-resurrection event. I.e., it is
>based on the
>belief that God really is, in the most down to earth sense, "Immanuel",
>"God with us."
Was the Son of God entirely unknown before His human birth in
Nazareth? No, read Psalm 110:1, and Matt.22:41-44. Was David the only one
to have knowledge of the pre-incarnate Christ?
> While there may be hints of such a belief in the OT, & while
> Christians
>legitimately read the OT in light of the NT & thus of trinitarian belief,
>the ancient
>Israelites, including the writers of the OT, did not know of or believe in
>God as the
>Trinity. (No, the plural character of "elohim", "Let us make ..." &c do
>not mean this.)
>Much less did the early Accadians.
Our concept of the Godhead has no parallel that I know of. And even if the
Accadians had a similar belief, I don't know how they would express that
with rudimentary writing skills. I'm not sure that we Christians all
understand how God can be in three persons either.
But all the other cultures are not the Accadian culture. They appear to be
the historic equivalent of the Adamic race which history books
ignore. Since Hebrew derived from the Accadian language, and the Accadians
wrote a flood account, and worshipped three gods from the beginning until
the Sumerians corrupted them, it certainly is not a reach to posit that the
Semitic race derived from the Accadians, and that they may have had a
primitive knowledge of the spiritual realm as we believe it exists.
To a primitive culture, the idea of three gods could be a preamble to
accepting a multitude of gods when another culture is so pervasive as were
the Sumerians to the Accadians. Certainly beginning with Abraham,
monotheism is in vogue. But did we Christians learn of three Gods from the
NT, or did we re-learn it? If God is in three persons, why would God (the
father) have kept that a secret from His people - if the Accadians and
Adamites are one and the same?
Dick Fischer - Genesis Proclaimed Association
"Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History"
www.genesisproclaimed.org
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