[extropy-chat] HISTORY: Solved & Unsolved Riddles

[J Corbally]

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>Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 08:26:19 -0800
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>Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] HISTORY: Solved & Unsolved Riddles
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>The early christian church had already split into two
>major branches by the second century, one preaching that
>jesus was god, the other that he was a man. They were already
>killing each other over it, and there weren't even very
>many christians at the time, so the trinity notion was
>an attempt to reunify the group, kinda like the World
>Wrassling Federation and the World Wildlife Foundation
>reunification match. The major split was avoided for
>more than a thousand years that way. The glossed verses
>1 John 5:7 and 8 were invented as support. Politically
>a unified church was stronger.
>Why three? Well, why not? spike

Because Bridge hadn't been invented yet.


James...

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