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There has been no more important teacher in human history than Jesus of Nazareth. Not only was Western civilization (the civilization that eliminated slavery, spawned science and unleashed production) based upon his teachings, but more than two billi

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(continued from above) "These three Persons were, then, the one God, and all three had existed together from all eternity, no one coming into being before or after the others. For always and always the Son was being generated or begotten by the Father, and for always and always the Holy Spirit was proceeding from the Father and the Son. Thus from time without beginning, I AM was 'the Holy, Blessed (i.e. Happy), and Glorious Trinity, three Persons and one God'. For this reason, God was not lonely since he combined within himself not one Person but three, and so constituted a community rather than an individual."


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That's a pretty clever parable you said there. Or did you even realize that it was a parable? Jesus quoted Isaiah when He was asked why he spoke to the people in parables, "Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them." --- Alan Watts was a religion major in college, but he chose to be a Buddhist. In an attempt to tear down Christianity, he wrote some beautiful words about God as Christians should understand God. In "Myth and Ritual in Christianity" he wrote, (continued below)

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