Re: Calvin, Accomodation, and the Trinity

Accadian, Sumerian, Keltic, Hindu &c &c divine triads have nothing to do with the Christian understanding of God as Trinity. That understanding originates, & is based on, the belief that Jesus of Nazareth who suffered under Pontius Pilate outside Jerusalem was the Son of God & fullest revelation of God, & Accadians &c did not know about Jesus. The Christian doctrine of the Trinity is not a belief in 3 gods/godesses, an abstract claim that somehow 3 = 1 or anything like that. It is the belief that Jesus & the one he looked to as Father & their Spirit are one God.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Dick Fischer
  To: ASA
  Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 3:01 PM
  Subject: RE: Calvin, Accomodation, and the Trinity

  Hi Rich, you wrote:

>>I commend to you Calvin's caution found in his commentary on Genesis

  1:1 about having Scripture saying more than it does.<<

  Please, quote somebody who lived within the last four hundred years! What is Calvin's opinion about biological evolution, or Big Bang cosmology, or the theory of relativity?

  Both the Accadian and Sumerian pantheons of gods in the earliest beginning started with only three. Calvin would have no way of knowing this. In essence, theologically, we have come full circle. Even the Trinity we believe in today has similarities with the original Accadian triad: Anu (ilu), Ea, and Enlil. And Jews are connected both biologically and theologically.

  The theological schools of Nippur and Eridu tried earnestly to figure out the vagaries of life and death and the life hereafter. Tammuz (Sumerian Dumuzi) was the first god to whom they looked for the possibility of resurrection. He was associated with the constellation Orion.

  When the Egyptians sought to translate their dead king to the after life they looked also to Orion. Some theological ideas never die.

  Dick Fischer

  Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association

  Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History

  www.genesisproclaimed.org

   
Received on Fri Jun 9 15:30:08 2006